i dont think roys first loss has valid excuses.....

[Pullcounter]

That's his second loss officially. Sometimes your body just doesn't recover from the weight loss, Jones was showing a little slippage a few years prior but nothing major, the weight loss probably accelerated his decline.

I agree, the weight loss was probably unrecoverable.

but also the devastating KO really hurt roy's confidence.

[MaD RoBoT]

Roy just caught a lucky punch, i mean who could've thought that Tarver would KTFO Roy in
2 rounds

Yes i belirve that after that he lost his confidence, not the same superspeed RJJ of the old

[Bhopreign]

Was not weight problem and if it was thats not why he lost. Had he won and kept on winning nobody would be saying anything about it.

[drh]

Roy just caught a lucky punch, i mean who could've thought that Tarver would KTFO Roy in
2 rounds

Yes i belirve that after that he lost his confidence, not the same superspeed RJJ of the old

agree 100%

[Kevin Jesus]

I disagree. He was weight drained in the first Tarver fight but he was so good that he still won in a war. In the second fight was that the weight loss took it's toll on his body, he was not the same anymore. His body no longer wanted to be at that weight. A lot of times, your body reacts slow to weight drainage. You know when your body is asking you for more food, and you starve yourself, you can get hurt in the ring and it does not have to be in the first fight back from where you drained yourself from in the first place. Your body fatigues little by little when you're not in the weight that it is asking to be. That's what happened to Roy, he was already fatigued in the first Tarver fight, second and third one's just showed the full effects that the muscle draining had. He recovered at past prime already against Prince Badi Ajamu and Hanshaw whatever their names are. He beat a blown up Trinidad, and then he lost to a fresher man in Calzaghe at 40 years old.

He has recovered now, because if not then he would have prob get stopped by Calzaghe with all those punches that Joe landed on him(the most by any opponent against Roy). It's too late though.

[Xcusemymood]

ppl say that he had lost 25 lbs of pure muscle, which is true, for tarver-jones I. however, he go knocked out in their second fight, a fight in which roy looked like vintage roy in round 1. i dont hold that weight loss bs as a valid excuse because he had already beat tarver prior to the ko loss. had he lost in their first meeting, then the excuse would be more of a reason.

Roy looked like **** in the 1st fight with Tarver and many people thought he lost. Thats why there was a second fight.....he was never the same after he came down.

[Piggu]

You still wont make Floyd better than roy by saying this.

Roy won a ***ing HW title, come back to me when floyd wins a piece of the LHW belt.

Thanks.

lolz who said anything about Floyd man? You were the one who brought him up.