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The bout in Madison Square Garden, between undefeated Joe Calzaghe and former 4-weight world champion and future hall of famer Roy Jones Jr. is by many considered as a one-sided fight in which Joe Calzaghe outboxed and outworked Roy Jones Jr. with ease.
But was this fight just another usual Calzaghe dominance or is that not the true story about this fight?
I respectfully disagree.
Well first of all Roy Jones Jr. has never been a 8-10 combination fighter and has never fought a guy, whose pace is as fast as Joe Calzaghes'. He has never fought a guy who hits so much as Joe Calzaghe, and to prove that point Calzaghe had already in round 9 thrown more punches at Roy than anyone else has ever accomplished, which the cut also resembled.
The first round is a pretty equal round, until Calzaghe recieves a 1-2 combination to his chin and tastes the canvas, plus he looses the round, on all three judges scorecards.
Now let's just sum up what happens, and basicly this is my theory.
Calzaghe doesn't get knocked down by a flash knockdown, as we saw in the Bernard Hopkins fight, and Joe Calzaghe wasn't off balance. This was a clean knockdown by two hard hits, even though one of them was by the wrist. Calzaghe has only been down four times in his caréer, he has proved his chin several times. But this time was different, he was off to a fresh and offensive start, so what took him down, was the power of Roy Jones Jr., let's settle here for a moment.
I've watched round 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in slowmotion, because I noticed something while watching the fight live, I noticed how many times Roy Jones Jr. hits Calzaghe clean and very hard during the fight, at least 15-20 very hard punches, that I don't believe anyone could have gone through like Joe Calzaghe did. Calzaghe on the other hand made the punches look like baby slaps the way he took them, he intimidated Roy Jones Jr., while fooling the world into believe that the punches he took was nothing compared to his rate of hits.
After watching the fight in slowmotion I'm not in the smallest doubt that Calzaghe won this fight fairly big and comfortable, but I think the way he won, by teasing, intimidating and keeping a fast pace was the reason for people saying that Roy Jones Jr. was only a shadow of himself and what he once was in a boxing ring. Now hear me out before you starts flaming this thread.
One of the reasons why I think that these punches made such a big impact on Calzaghe is because of something I've never seen him do. Misjudging his own ringside. 4 out of 12 rounds he misjudges his own ringside, one of them following Roy Jones to his corner, until the referre wakes him up. I have never in any Joe Calzaghe fights, not even the fight against Bernard Hopkins, see him misjudging even one time. This is the first time ever for Joe Calzaghe, and when he suddenly misjudges 4 out of 12 rounds, I think it's a statement of it's own, he was being hit, he was being hit hard.
So basicly my theory is that Roy Jones Jr. didn't underperform this bout, he boxed a very good fight and he deserves much more respect, especially by the Roy Jones fans, than he is getting now. Let my point be proved or disproved if he boxes again and let that be the final words of this thread.
But was this fight just another usual Calzaghe dominance or is that not the true story about this fight?
I respectfully disagree.
Well first of all Roy Jones Jr. has never been a 8-10 combination fighter and has never fought a guy, whose pace is as fast as Joe Calzaghes'. He has never fought a guy who hits so much as Joe Calzaghe, and to prove that point Calzaghe had already in round 9 thrown more punches at Roy than anyone else has ever accomplished, which the cut also resembled.
The first round is a pretty equal round, until Calzaghe recieves a 1-2 combination to his chin and tastes the canvas, plus he looses the round, on all three judges scorecards.
Now let's just sum up what happens, and basicly this is my theory.
Calzaghe doesn't get knocked down by a flash knockdown, as we saw in the Bernard Hopkins fight, and Joe Calzaghe wasn't off balance. This was a clean knockdown by two hard hits, even though one of them was by the wrist. Calzaghe has only been down four times in his caréer, he has proved his chin several times. But this time was different, he was off to a fresh and offensive start, so what took him down, was the power of Roy Jones Jr., let's settle here for a moment.
I've watched round 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in slowmotion, because I noticed something while watching the fight live, I noticed how many times Roy Jones Jr. hits Calzaghe clean and very hard during the fight, at least 15-20 very hard punches, that I don't believe anyone could have gone through like Joe Calzaghe did. Calzaghe on the other hand made the punches look like baby slaps the way he took them, he intimidated Roy Jones Jr., while fooling the world into believe that the punches he took was nothing compared to his rate of hits.
After watching the fight in slowmotion I'm not in the smallest doubt that Calzaghe won this fight fairly big and comfortable, but I think the way he won, by teasing, intimidating and keeping a fast pace was the reason for people saying that Roy Jones Jr. was only a shadow of himself and what he once was in a boxing ring. Now hear me out before you starts flaming this thread.
One of the reasons why I think that these punches made such a big impact on Calzaghe is because of something I've never seen him do. Misjudging his own ringside. 4 out of 12 rounds he misjudges his own ringside, one of them following Roy Jones to his corner, until the referre wakes him up. I have never in any Joe Calzaghe fights, not even the fight against Bernard Hopkins, see him misjudging even one time. This is the first time ever for Joe Calzaghe, and when he suddenly misjudges 4 out of 12 rounds, I think it's a statement of it's own, he was being hit, he was being hit hard.
So basicly my theory is that Roy Jones Jr. didn't underperform this bout, he boxed a very good fight and he deserves much more respect, especially by the Roy Jones fans, than he is getting now. Let my point be proved or disproved if he boxes again and let that be the final words of this thread.
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