Roy Jones Jr. Question...(In reguards to ducking fighters)

[SkillspayBills]

Nunn is the only person I could see REALLY taking it to Jones prime for prime at the time. That amalgamation of skill in one ring would be masterful to watch and would have been a great fight to say the least.

[K-Nan]

Nunn is the only person I could see REALLY taking it to Jones prime for prime at the time. That amalgamation of skill in one ring would be masterful to watch and would have been a great fight to say the least.

Great post!

[wpink1]

Roy faced the same type of fighters repeatedly.....He never faced great pressure fighters,,,,,or fighters that made effective use of punching distance when Roy was cornered. Many times roy would be up against the rops, and the fighter would step inside their own punching distance and roy could easily tiel them and spin them, land those super quick flurries on the inside...If you notice roy would back straiht up like Jermaine Taylor,,,Look at how he fought vs Griffen the first time, and other fights...It is just Roy fought fighters that did not produce large punch output, or applied effective and sustained presssue.

I think DM could have made a fight wth Roy very very interesting.
GM annhilates Roy....Roy did not want any part of what Benn and GM experiended when they fought each other...Too much firepower..and roy would be touched hard if he fought GM...Great speed reach firewpower..Sure Roy was the better boxer, but Roy IMO did not want to deal with that firepower. Hell when they fought as amateurs both of them were hurt for weeks after their fight.
Collins would have been a major challenge for him as Roy Sr knew. I do not know if it was Stevie Collins but there was someone as an amateur that sparred with Roy and kO'd him. I heard it was Collins..Roy made mention of this after his 2nd Tarverfight, when he said when interviewed after the fight that he would come back he got caught with a lucky shot, and that is was not the 1st time something like this happend to him, it happened back when he was an amateur....go to YOUTube and get a copy of the end of the Tarver Jones 2nd fight.

Micheal NUNN would have beaten Roy or gotten kO'd. What many people fail to remember is that Nunn was beating Toney until he got caught...Nunn had speed, reach and power...and was south paw....Tarver had reach and was a southpaw...Not that Roy was at his peak vs Tarver, but Roy never licked to risk it...He would have to risk it vs Nunn as Nunn speed could almost match Roy's his height and reach 6'3 height vs 5"11, reach 76 vs 74 speed almost as good as roys..southpaw, and good power....One thing people dont mention is that Nunn chased roy from super middle to lightheavy....Roy vacated the super middleweight title and ignored a court request to have them too fight, via the courts stirpping roy of the title because Nunn/rocchigiani winner was the rightfull owner of the supermiddle weight belt...Roy refused to face nunn or rocchigiani , and moved up...

Benn would be a good challenge for a while,,then it could turn ugly,,,,but who knows if he lands a big shot....

So Roy was clealry the best fighter, but styles makes fights, and GM and DM and Nunn all posed very very high risk for Roy, and you now what,,,Roy never faced any of them

[oovavu]

i still think prime cal-jones would be the best fight of the last 20 years, but theres too many fights to be made if you worked it out like that.

[Orange Sneakers]

I don't think Jones-Calzaghe would be a good fight, Calzaghe is too square and it's not like Roy would stand with his toes touching Joe's toes

I think Jones has the tools to beat him handidly, get him out of there

[Orange Sneakers]

It was Liles who knocked Jones down in the amateurs

[Azteca]

It was Liles who knocked Jones down in the amateurs

Show me some cool Roy links. ASs.

[Mike Tyson77]

Roy=one of the greatest of all time...