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

[FistoftheDallasStar]

I honostly believe that Gerald McClellan would have KO'd Roy Jones if they fought after the Benn fight. He was getting better as a fighter and his punches were getting more accurate and devestating before he was injured. He wasn't as fast as Roy but he had an uncanny quickness on his power shots. If he caught Roy with even a glancing blow he would be in trouble. I really think if the ref was semi competent in the Benn fight we all would be talking about McClellan's legacy as one of the great fighters in history. Just my opinion.

[Duncan]

Roy would have handled Gerald but would get a taste of leather a few times.Aaron Pryor beat Thomas Hearns as a amateur but I know for certain that would not had happened in the pros

Pryor beat Hearns in the amatuers? I didn't know that. But I do agree, Hearns would have seriously hurt Pryor in a pro-fight....maybe real bad.

[dansweeney]

I honostly believe that Gerald McClellan would have KO'd Roy Jones if they fought after the Benn fight. He was getting better as a fighter and his punches were getting more accurate and devestating before he was injured. He wasn't as fast as Roy but he had an uncanny quickness on his power shots. If he caught Roy with even a glancing blow he would be in trouble. I really think if the ref was semi competent in the Benn fight we all would be talking about McClellan's legacy as one of the great fighters in history. Just my opinion.

i agree, we would talk about the great gerald Mcclellan instead or roy jones, roy would just have been a footnote in the g-mans career

[jabsRstiff]

I honostly believe that Gerald McClellan would have KO'd Roy Jones if they fought after the Benn fight. He was getting better as a fighter and his punches were getting more accurate and devestating before he was injured. He wasn't as fast as Roy but he had an uncanny quickness on his power shots. If he caught Roy with even a glancing blow he would be in trouble. I really think if the ref was semi competent in the Benn fight we all would be talking about McClellan's legacy as one of the great fighters in history. Just my opinion.

Say what ?

If anything, McClellan was getting LESS accurate, & becoming a WORSE fighter.
He became too reliant on his power (& it wasn't like he had a wide variety of shots), forgetting to set them up.
He had too many quick KO's in the mid 90's.....which is one major reason he had so much trouble with Benn after round one.

I can't believe so many are saying the Roy Jones of the mid-90's would lose to a guy who lost to Nigel Benn.

I was a huge McClellan fan, because he was very exciting & intimidating.
But I also saw some serious limitations....certainly the kind that would see him defeated by a Jones who had no limitations.

[scap]

The key if these two would have squared off would have been RESPECT. How much would Gerald have respected Roy Jones. Everyone Roy fought up until Glenn Johnson showed him far too much respect...even Antonio Tarver did...

When you watch Roy's fight with Hopkins it was depressing to see a bully like Hopkins content with getting into a boxing match from the outside with a guy who was twice as fast.

If G-man went in with a reckless mindset like he did against the Hawk then I give him a damn good chance...if he choose to fight the Hopkins way then he would have no chance...

I gotta believe that G-man would have shown Roy no repsect in the ring and gone after him...would he have won, I think with this style he would have a really good chance.

As for the Benn fight as a marker...throw that fight out the window...no one on this site no's when things started going wrong inside of Gerald's brain...it's been a long time since I read this but I read that the clot started forming as early as the second round. Now of course who knows but to use the Benn fight as a comparison for a future fight is probably off, if anything it shows that nothing could deter a guy like Gerald...again he was literally dieing in that fight yet still continued on...which leads me back up top, to beat G-man you need a blood clot to do it, the power of Julian Jackson couldn't do it and I seriously doubt that Roy Jones power would have done it either.

Fight from the outside and show Roy too much repsect and this fight is as easy as all of the other Roy fights, bully the **** out of him and we may have seen Johnson v. Jones a decade sooner.

[jabsRstiff]

The key if these two would have squared off would have been RESPECT. How much would Gerald have respected Roy Jones. Everyone Roy fought up until Glenn Johnson showed him far too much respect...even Antonio Tarver did...

When you watch Roy's fight with Hopkins it was depressing to see a bully like Hopkins content with getting into a boxing match from the outside with a guy who was twice as fast.

If G-man went in with a reckless mindset like he did against the Hawk then I give him a damn good chance...if he choose to fight the Hopkins way then he would have no chance...

I gotta believe that G-man would have shown Roy no repsect in the ring and gone after him...would he have won, I think with this style he would have a really good chance.

As for the Benn fight as a marker...throw that fight out the window...no one on this site no's when things started going wrong inside of Gerald's brain...it's been a long time since I read this but I read that the clot started forming as early as the second round. Now of course who knows but to use the Benn fight as a comparison for a future fight is probably off, if anything it shows that nothing could deter a guy like Gerald...again he was literally dieing in that fight yet still continued on...which leads me back up top, to beat G-man you need a blood clot to do it, the power of Julian Jackson couldn't do it and I seriously doubt that Roy Jones power would have done it either.

Fight from the outside and show Roy too much repsect and this fight is as easy as all of the other Roy fights, bully the **** out of him and we may have seen Johnson v. Jones a decade sooner.

It's amazing how quickly everyone forgets how nobody really competed with Roy Jones back then.

If McClellan played the "bully", as you believe he should of, his incredibly orthodox attack would have gotten him smacked silly by Roy.

I can't see someone like McClellan getting anything done with Roy Jones.

[scap]

It's amazing how quickly everyone forgets how nobody really competed with Roy Jones back then.

If McClellan played the "bully", as you believe he should of, his incredibly orthodox attack would have gotten him smacked silly by Roy.

I can't see someone like McClellan getting anything done with Roy Jones.

I certainly have not forgotten how dominate Roy Jones was...for a decade actually longer than that I looked at him as unbeatable but I always wanted to see a guy throw caution to the wind and go at him. Hopkins and Toney and Ruiz completely pissed me off with their respective efforts...Tarver pissed me off in the first fight and for a round and a half of the second fight...Roy is the most dominating fighter of my era-probably yours too-I just wish someone would have gone balls to the wall against him just once...Win or loose with Gerald McClellan we would have most likely seen balls to the wall.

[BDBowe]

roy prob would have beat him then. all mclellan had was a punchers chance, but thats enough too

[jujuman]

you all saw what roy did to james toney right? would you have thought that would have happened to toney? We've see G-Mac at his best, we've seen Roy at his best, who would you out you last dime on? Mine goes on roy UD.