Would Roy Jones get exposed much earlier if he fought better competetion?

[RayLeonard82]

Do you think if Roy had faced more quality competetion earlier in his career that his chin would have gotten exposed much sooner? If he fought guy's like Nigel Benn ,Joe Calzaghe ,Darius Michalchewski , Glen Johnson ,but a couple of years earlier.

Roy looked awesome against counterpuncher type fighters that did not take the fight to him. I think the fighters above would bring the fight to him,no matter how much he was in his prime,and give him a lot of problems.

I know he beat Toney in 1994 ,but Toney's type of style was perfect for Roy because he is more of a counterpuncher who is not very aggressive. If Roy tried that same move he did on Toney on Nigel Benn or Glen Jonnson they would have been all over him before he even tried it.

[Dimebar]

Nigel Benn at his best takes Jones out (six rounds with Benn is too many rounds for Jones to escape), but doesn't 'expose' him or his chin.

[Zerwas1]

Nigel Benn at his best takes Jones out (six rounds with Benn is too many rounds for Jones to escape), but doesn't 'expose' him or his chin.

Worse Fighters went the 12 with Nigel Benn, maybe not at his best, but they did. Jones chin was also good enough for 160 and 168

[Dimebar]

Worse Fighters went the 12 with Nigel Benn, maybe not at his best, but they did. Jones chin was also good enough for 160 and 168

The only fighters who went 12 with Benn were big 185lbers hugging and holding him alnight (Lenzie Morgan, Piper, Galvano, Eubank) while Benn was only really a middleweight trying to grow into the division (he only moved up because Eubank was there). Against Wharton, ofcourse, he didn't try to take him out, he boxed. And we all know about the Jiminez debacle.

If Benn could bring back the Destroyer, he'd have taken Jones out.

[THE REAL NINJA]

Why does everyone think that he has a bad chin ?
He's getting old he can't make every punch miss any more .
The punch that Tarver hit him with would have knocked just about anyone out that doesn't make Roy's chin weak.
Roy was not himself during the Johston fight and shouldn't have came back so soon.

[wmute]

no

roy jones was never exposed.

when you are 35, you are not in your prime. end of the story.

so what did we see? that Jones without his reflexes could not compete anymore in a weight class where he was systematically the smaller man? boo-f...n'-hoo. I could have told you that.

where was sweet pea at 35? getting battered by tito after getting out of coke

where was sugar ray leonard at 35? retired after terry norris handed him his ass.

where is floyd mayweather going to be at 35? probably retired

where was sugar ray robinson at 35? he had 7 more title fights. the record for those fights? 3-4-0. not exactly prime robinson of say 1952..., isnt it?

bottom line, none of the above fighters was a shadow of his former self at 35. why would roy jones have been much different?

[deuce_drop]

jones' timeline is what it is and regardless of who he fought when, i think with his talents it would've been the same and ended the same.

[Liaison]

Had he faced the awkwardness of Nunn & Eubank and the speed of Calzone and won all three in a convincing fashion, there’d be no doubt in my mind that p4p, he’d be the greatest of all time.

[siablo14]

hopkins is rare gem then?

[Dimebar]

Had he faced the awkwardness of Nunn & Eubank and the speed of Calzone and won all three in a convincing fashion, there’d be no doubt in my mind that p4p, he’d be the greatest of all time.

Nunn would have beaten Jones.

Eubank and Jones, man what a tangle, that would have just been strange, I think Jones would really struggle for a while but out-hussle him down the stretch.

Calzaghe, too square-on and Jones was a beast/bomber. Jones takes Calzaghe out.