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  • The D3vil
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    #41
    Originally posted by Slugfester

    He flat wasn't getting hit in his prime other than glancing blows. I don't recall a single opponent smashing him in the face full on with a good hard shot. Please provide ANY prime footage of someone doing so, multiple examples preferred. Those examples may be there. But I wonder if you can find even one example of prime-wise pro Jones being smashed in the face and smashed good. When one is never taking swarms of punches, then one is not being worn down by those punches. When his reflexes headed south is when he became hittable like a human being. That is when any jaw-flaw from previous times or from birth would have even had a chance to rear its glass head. Not saying he did or did not, but his daddy had been training him since the bassinet, and was somewhat cruel and demanding. It was peculiar that once his jaw was under su****ion, he could be knocked out by stay-busy punches, as in Russia. Maybe age and kicking roids just caught up with him. Also,once the KOs against him started coming they kept coming. It was su****ious to me for a man who had hardly taken any good punches as a pro to develop a sudden glass jaw. Since I believe he had one, then I I am forced by logic into believing it either came naturally and we never got a chance to see it tested until he was no longer prime, or it stemmed from a previous injury. Maybe he fell down on a basketball court.
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    I agree Roy wasn't getting hit in his prime because he was just that good, which is why we don't know what his chin was like pre moving up to heavyweight and dropping back down in weight.

    Again, the guy was unbeatable from 1989-2004, that's a full 15 years.

    Getting knocked out after 15 dominant years doesn't mean you have a bad chin. It just means your chin went untested until you got old. Lots of guys with "good chins" get knocked out when they get old.

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    • Slugfester
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      #42
      I always figured other ATGs would have found a way to hit Roy. I don't consider Hawkins an ATG. I imagine Ezzard Charles and Harry Greb would find a way. Still doesn't mean they win, but I guarantee those boys are going to at least test his chin and heart anyplace in his career.

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