Comments Thread For: Roy Jones Jr. Defends Himself Against Errol Spence Criticism: 'I Don't Hate Nobody'

[Boxing Goat]

Starting to wonder if Roy is suffering a bit from those knockouts....Crawford hasn't proven anything over Spence, at least not at Welterweight. If anything, at this juncture, Spence has the more impressive resume. Crawford is still at the top of people's P4P lists, even though he has been inactive for 8 months. I mean.....there are PLENTY of fights to be made without Errol and he can't get ONE??? It's pretty obvious what's going on with Bud right now, so if Roy wants to point a finger, he should be pointing it towards Top Rank

Crawford is WAY more accomplished overall and both guys are to blame.

[Boxing Goat]

Stopped reading from here (see below), Spence has fought way better opposition i.e proven himself.

"The only problem I have is that he’s the other top welterweight next to Terence Crawford who has probably proven himself a lot more than Errol has, so it’s, like, I don’t see the big dog fight.”

Who are you talking about exactly? Spence has like 2 top ten wins ffs

[Boxing Goat]

Roy's taken too many head-shots.

When you make a statement saying Crawford has fought tougher competition than Errol has, you are hating.

No, that's the truth (no pun intended)

[Boxing Goat]

Ok, so I’m nobody to be telling Roy he’s wrong.
What I will say is that Crawford has established himself as a pound for pound fighter and multiple weight world champion. He’s done excellent, his career is amazing if he retired tomorrow. One thing that does baffle me is when guys say that Crawford has proven himself as a WW more than Spence. That is ludicrous, like him or loathe him, Errol is THE man at welterweight. He also even generates more revenue and PPV than Crawford.

when I listen to both talk about the other I never feel like either is desperate for the fight to happen but if it comes down to 10% one way or the other, than Crawford would have to accept that 40% to Spence 60%.

Roy didn't say specifically at WW and based on their unbeaten careers, this should def be a 50/50 fight

[Boxing Goat]

In what way? Errol has fought Porter and Danny Garcia. Neither of those guys are world level. Both are decent champs similar to Postol or Gamboa if we're being honest.

I side with you overall but you do realize that both of them were world champs, right? How can you not be world level after having been a world titlist?

[GucciGod]

Roy didn't say specifically at WW and based on their unbeaten careers, this should def be a 50/50 fight

That’s true. And I never said Roy had said that. I said “it baffles me when guys say”.

just to clear that matter up. Enjoy your day.

[ptek]

I love how guys be getting on here thinking they know more about boxing then the professionals.
it's funny as , and always cracks me up BIGTIME.

[Boxing Goat]

That’s true. And I never said Roy had said that. I said “it baffles me when guys say”.

just to clear that matter up. Enjoy your day.

You said.....

Ok, so I’m nobody to be telling Roy he’s wrong.
What I will say is that Crawford has established himself as a pound for pound fighter and multiple weight world champion. He’s done excellent, his career is amazing if he retired tomorrow. One thing that does baffle me is when guys say that Crawford has proven himself as a WW more than Spence. That is ludicrous, like him or loathe him, Errol is THE man at welterweight. He also even generates more revenue and PPV than Crawford.

when I listen to both talk about the other I never feel like either is desperate for the fight to happen but if it comes down to 10% one way or the other, than Crawford would have to accept that 40% to Spence 60%.

No but you said this and it kind of undermines great fighters moving up in weight and fighting for world titles. That said, I don't think either man really want the fight. Why? I have no idea. Maybe lack of confidence. I think both men pose a serious threat to one another as they both can exploit one another's weaknesses.

[Sid-Knee]

Both Hopkins and roy has 21 W at the time

Both were fighting for the vacant title

The ibf chose them to fight for it

You act like Roy picked Hopkins because Hopkins was inexperienced

Dumb f@ck

And you wanna pretend others don't know what they're talking about

Roy Jones stuck in his division for years and fought almost every top 10 175 fighter in his division

He didn't need to cherry pick

He fought everyone in 175 that would fight him

Michalczewski was too scared to lose his 0 to fight Roy outside of Germany

Or do u think Roy should go to Germany instead of fighting in Vegas?

Who said Roy cherry picked Hopkins at that point? Idiot.

Americans always claim the challenger should go to the champ. The champ was Darius. Roy didn't want to know. He even said he didn't want to travel because of the corruption, even though the US is the most corrupt place on earth for boxing. But when Roy had nothing to lose, he's travelling. Just face it, he's a coward.

But there was plenty more Roy ducked. HBO got sick and tired of it and were constantly complaining. Rightly so too considering how much he did so.

Roy didn't want Darius to fight straight away in Vegas either. They wanted Darius to fight a couple of times on his undercard to build the fight. Something no one else had to do. But we know all about the excuses Americans come up with to duck a fight. It's constant today, and throughout your history.

[HOF Hater]

If Spence fought Bum’s opposition he would never come close to losing

How could Spence fight them? They're on the other side of the street and Spence don't cross no street. And Spence been cracked many times before...wouldn't surprise me if he lost to really anyone on Bud's resume