McClellan beat Roy in the amatuers..........

**The Fix** · 10-20-2004, 04:06 PM

who cares who beat who in the ams

wlad won a gold medal ,his brother didnt(im pretty sure). who is the champ whos not. vitali is far more succesful than wlad. it goes to show am and pro are two different sports and you cant say that gerald would have beaten roy because the sports are very different.imo roy would have beaten mcclellan by UD

**borikua** · 10-20-2004, 06:29 PM

the same happend to Cotto, he lost twice to Pinto in amateurs and Cotto beat him by KO for the vacant WBO title.

**Neuraxis** · 10-20-2004, 06:51 PM

Originally posted by thefix

who cares who beat who in the ams

wlad won a gold medal ,his brother didnt(im pretty sure). who is the champ whos not. vitali is far more succesful than wlad. it goes to show am and pro are two different sports and you cant say that gerald would have beaten roy because the sports are very different.imo roy would have beaten mcclellan by UD

Vitali didn't go to the Olympics because he failed the drug test. Or at least that's what I think happened.

**Neuraxis** · 10-20-2004, 07:15 PM

Roy Jones Jr. Hall of Shame Part I:

**Neuraxis** · 10-20-2004, 07:15 PM

Roy Jones Jr. Hall of Shame Part II:

**scap** · 10-21-2004, 02:53 PM

Originally posted by INFAMOUZ

I just checked a hunch I had and it is a fact that Gerald McClellan beat Roy in the amatuers. Now what do you think of his chances of beating Roy as a pro were, good I would say. Roy didn't suddenly become sensational over-night, he was a top amatuer too, proven by the fact that he went to the Olympics, so no one can say that Roy wasn't a skilled fighter back then, which is probably what Roy fans want to believe. I still believe that as pro.s McClellan would have KO'd Roy in devastating fashion.

I think your right dude! I love the G-man and a few years back in Reno I was at a boxing after dark card and I asked Manny Steward about Roy vs. Gerald (manny was visibly shaken to talk about McClellan). Obviously manny was biased because he loved Gerald almost as much as Tommy but he said very very convincingly that Gerald would have smoked Roy, he said it would have been easy. This was years before Roy was exposed by Tarver...Johnson. In my view Gerald would have at the very very least put Roy in the fight of his life! But I agree Roy would have suffered a very devistating ko that back then would have certainly crushed his legacy and at the same time cemented Gerald's.

**jabsRstiff** · 10-21-2004, 03:04 PM

No way.

McClelellan developed into a single-minded fighter.
He fell too in love with his power, & forgot to do the things to set up his monstrous shots.

No way Roy Jones loses to the McClellan who fought Benn.
All McClellan did was fire the big right cross followed by maybe a big left hook to the body.

Gerald would have been the biggest hitter Roy ever faced....but Roy, especially at 168....would have EASILY handled McClellan.

**scap** · 10-21-2004, 03:13 PM

I dont think G-man developed into a single minded fighter, he was always that way. He made no secret of the fact that he was going to take any punch that you had and try and bomb you out of there, period. It wasn't like he was a complete fighter that just decided to start going for the home run, he always did this. MAybe Roy would have handled him, I know Roy would have been on his bike the entire fight, and if he let Gerald get him to the ropes which he let many fighters do way before Tarver roy would have been in big trouble.

**dansweeney** · 10-21-2004, 07:26 PM

G-man would have savagely knocked out roy, roy would not be able to keep the g-man off him, he would have stalked him until he landed the big one

McClellan beat Roy in the amatuers..........