Which other former Champions would Roy Jones have beaten at HW

[TheGreatA]

max schmelling. (not fair to judge old timers against modern guys though)

evander holyfield. (the old one with a WBA belt that ruiz beat)

ingemar johansson. (not very good imo. floyd just had no chin.)

chris byrd. (chris was very good but he'll box with roy. roy don't lose boxing matches)

that's about it. maybe rocky as well but i think rocky would've worn down roy punching his arms , shoulders , top of the head , etc. and if suzie q just lands once......you know what rocky did to great light heavyweights......

everyone else would eventually catch roy and roy will get knocked out.

Ingemar was pretty good IMO (of course I'm North European so I have bias), not great but he could set up his powerful right hand well, atleast until everyone knew it was coming. He was also chinny...

Patterson wasn't the only one he knocked out, Eddie Machen had a tested chin (went the distance with Liston and Cleveland Williams) but when Johansson dropped the right hand on him, he was out in the very first round.

Schmeling was small but if he fought like he did against Louis for the first time without fear, looking to counter with the right, he could possibly stop Roy (if he landed, Schmeling had remarkable power for his size with 40 KO's).
His title reign wasn't much to talk about though (won it from Sharkey by DQ and lost a controversial decision to Sharkey in a rematch).

Jim Braddock too... He was a light heavyweight.

[Left Hook Tua]

Ingemar was pretty good IMO (of course I'm North European so I have bias), not great but he could set up his powerful right hand well, atleast until everyone knew it was coming. He was also chinny...

Patterson wasn't the only one he knocked out, Eddie Machen had a tested chin (went the distance with Liston and Cleveland Williams) but when Johansson dropped the right hand on him, he was out in the very first round.

Schmeling was small but if he fought like he did against Louis for the first time without fear, looking to counter with the right, he could possibly stop Roy (if he landed, Schmeling had remarkable power for his size with over 50 KO's).
His title reign wasn't much to talk about though (won it from Sharkey by DQ and lost a controversial decision to Sharkey in a rematch).

Jim Braddock too... He was a light heavyweight.

i'll take your word on ingemar. i'll be the first to admit most of my exposure with ingemar is old patterson fights. i just don't have many ingemar fights in my collection sorry.

same with schmelling. most of my exposure of him was with louis though i'm not quite sure he was in his prime anymore by the time he fought louis.

i forgot about cinderella man. i guess roy probably could've beat him.

just trying to help out the thread starter and throw names out there. seeing tarver ko jones with one lucky punch really doesn't do well to make an argument for roy against most heavies.