Roy Jones Vs. Daruisz M.

[Kid McCoy]

Why would Roy go to Germany? Because that's where the champ was. Dariusz was the champ. Period. Before Roy was a LHW, Dariusz had unified all existing LHW titles, except the WBC's, whose I believe was vacant at the time. Roy basically won paper titles at LHW. Dariusz had defended his LHW title several times. Maske had defended his many times. Hill had defended his many times. There were three legit titlists at LHW. Hill beat Maske. Dariusz beat Hill, in a decisive decision. The end. You have a champion. Ring belts were different back then, but as the head of Ring Magazine said in an interview, Dariusz would've been the Ring champ when he beat Hill, if their current system was in place. It's a no-brainer. There was a champion in the division, Roy never fought him. He d****d paper belts all over himself, but he never fought Dariusz.

Dariusz technically unified all four belts, as he also beat Rocchigiani, whose WBC belt was infamously (and illegally) stripped from him and handed back to Roy.

For the record, I would back Roy to beat Dariusz, although it would be his biggest test at 175 and it wouldn't be as easy as some of his fans reckon. Some seem to think a lot of people picking Roy to win a fantasy match-up over the internet is as good as a W on his record.

Roy's resume is hardly overflowing with stellar challenges at light-heavy, and whether it was down to his fear of flying, fear of foreign officiating, excessive pay demands or just an unwillingness to leave his comfort zone, he avoided the chance to put a legacy fight against a legitimate 48-0 WBA/IBF/WBO/linear champion on his resume. Had he done that, at a stroke one of the major criticisms of him would be no more.

[DiegoFuego]

Roy's biggest mistake was not fighting that guy. He was just afraid of getting robbed by the judges. Well, Roy, there's a way around it. Go over there to his hometown and KO him in 2 rounds.