Roy Jones; Possible Return or Retirement

[ProBox1]

Roy Jones Jr, for years he was considered the best fighter in the game, thought of as unbeatable. Jones was so good that even though he was a middleweight fighting as a blown up light heavyweight, fans were demanding that he take on some of the biggest names in the heavyweight division like Mike Tyson, Vitali Klitschko and Lennox Lewis. Today he is thought of as a fighter who is shot, old and very beatable. The image of Roy Jones took two missiles which have put permanent cracks on his legacy.

Jones suffered two back to back "one punch" knock out losses. The first knock out loss shocked the Boxing world, Jones was knocked out by Antonio Tarver in only two rounds of action. The next knock out loss was vicious and against an opponent that was not picked by anyone to win. Glen Johnson was known as a blown up middleweight possessing mediocre power, slow, old and an ex KO victim of Bernard Hopkins. Regardless of the label which was bestowed upon Johnson, he came into the fight hungry like a fighter who was fighting for his life. [details]

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Roy Jones Jr, for years he was considered the best fighter in the game, thought of as unbeatable. Jones was so good that even though he was a middleweight fighting as a blown up light heavyweight, fans were demanding that he take on some of the biggest names in the heavyweight division like Mike Tyson, Vitali Klitschko and Lennox Lewis. Today he is thought of as a fighter who is shot, old and very beatable. The image of Roy Jones took two missiles which have put permanent cracks on his legacy.

Jones suffered two back to back "one punch" knock out losses. The first knock out loss shocked the Boxing world, Jones was knocked out by Antonio Tarver in only two rounds of action. The next knock out loss was vicious and against an opponent that was not picked by anyone to win. Glen Johnson was known as a blown up middleweight possessing mediocre power, slow, old and an ex KO victim of Bernard Hopkins. Regardless of the label which was bestowed upon Johnson, he came into the fight hungry like a fighter who was fighting for his life. [details]

Personally, I still can't believe Roy got knocked down by a mediocre fighter. So it's either Jones was totally not focused or Johnson got extremely lucky. Having said that, I believe the warrior in Jones will find it in himself to get back up and fight again, if only to recover lost pride and dignity in the name he has patiently built up all these years.

[realheavyhands]

johnson is a B fighter he made no mistakes he fought a technical fight.. roy was out punched roy wouldnt throw no punches

[Boxerdog]

Johnson got extremely lucky.

Yeah.......Johnson was "extremely lucky"....round after dominating round. I heard he played blackjack later that night and won a kizzillion trillion dollars.
Lucky bastard!

[psychopath]

This is not the best time for Jones to even consider retirement . . . he needs to go out there and fight again to salvage a little of what he lost in those two consecutive fights. If not everything he accomplished would just go down the drain. He would be leaving a big question mark on where he stand in the sport.

[Ivansmamma]

He should absolutely not fight again, the guy is 35 years old he dosen'thave his reflex anymore and he dosen't have a chin.

[triggerhappy]

ones will be back with a vengence.

[Boxer2005]

I think he should fight also...

[mr.thraz]

i think we need to remember here that jones never looked like himself since his move back down to lightheavy.

when jones moved up to heavy he took a solid right hand shot from ruiz and fired back unfazed. ruiz dropped holyfeild twice!

i belive jones just sweated the weight off for the tarver and johnson fights, his skin didn't look good in those fight at all
a sign of dehydraition.

i think the only reason he won the first tarver fight is: he fooled taver in to playing the feint game with him, and taver being the competitive guy he is got himself outsmartassed and lowering his punch output making jones the winner of the many boring rounds of that fight.

jones made a big mistake moving down to lightheavy the way he did, he was pure muscle as a heavyweight and he should have taken a whole 6 months to work the muscleweight off, instead he kept the weight hoping for an attractive heavyweight bout to materealize and when it didn't he decide to keep his promise to tarver and probably starved himself while he ran the weight off leaving himself weakend and without any reserve energy to call on.

jones should have stopped at cruiser and gotten another belt before heading for lightheavy and facing tarver, it would have only been a five pound drop in weight at the time and would have further enhanced his legend while giving him more time to lose the remander of the weight afterwards.

if he comes back he should do so at cruier (now that the cruiser limit is 200) so he can truly have all his resources to use, and not be drained and suseptable to knockouts because of dehydraition.

by then tarver should be iching for another big money fight and a 3ed jones bout would be right up his ally, all jones would have to say is "come on up to cruiser or heavy" and we can see them both fighting at there best.

[dansweeney]

that is exactly what i thought, jones should move up to cruiserweight,going down in weight like that depleted his brain fluid which makes you susceptible to knockouts, replenishing that muscle and water weight would defend against him getting kayoed again, i think he should give it one more shot if thts what he wants to do