Comments Thread For: Liam Smith on KO of Eubank: I Told You All Week, Don't Be Surprised!

[Brittney1229]

I watched highlights of the fight and my impression within the 1st 30 seconds was that Eubank is fighting too much like Roy Jones Jr- except he is not Roy Jones Jr. Roy carried his left hand low and ducked down and away from punches, and on the ropes he could still block, roll, slip and counter. But he had cat like quickness and reflexes and processed things very quickly and he was so gifted that he could get away with all this. I feel like Eubank's job as a fighter should be to take some things from Roy but know which things he can and can't do as well as Roy did them, and use them very sparingly, mixed with his own style. He should not try to be a carbon copy of Roy because no one can copy Roy because they can't think like, react like, and make adjustments on the fly like Roy in the moment. He was a genius. U can be influenced by him. U can steal a move from him here and there, but u better know your limitations and adjust your style accordingly.
my other observation is that his legs are very light/thin. his upper body looked strong but his legs seemed weak looking

Plus if you followed Roy you were getting knocked out because he had deadly power and lightning speed. It's a style no one will ever be able to successfully copy because of Roy reflexes. Both he and Floyd fought in the same era and no one ever said Floyd was near the talent or greatness of Roy.

[archiemoore1]

Plus if you followed Roy you were getting knocked out because he had deadly power and lightning speed. It's a style no one will ever be able to successfully copy because of Roy reflexes. Both he and Floyd fought in the same era and no one ever said Floyd was near the talent or greatness of Roy.

You make a very good point. If you follwed Roy, you ended up like Bryant Brannon. I was at that fight. Ike Quartey vs Oba Carr was fight b4 Roy and I sat right next to Brannon's family from NJ, and near Quartey's ppl from Ghana who were playing drums. Brannon's ppl were telling me how he did 5 years in prison and he's been shot and stabbed and how he's gonna knock Roy out. I asked them if they wanted to make a friendly wager. When Roy started touching Brannon up, I was standing up in my seat screaming at Brannon's ppl until I lost my voice. The usher had to come ask me to sit down. Of course, I didn't listen. After the fight, Roy walked past with a tall hot blonde and we slapped five. He was the quickest, fastest fighter I ever saw live with my own two eyes, of any weight, including all the lower weight divisions. I saw Pernell live, too. Maybe Pernell was as just quick, and sharp as a razor in the ring

[TheOneAboveAll]

Plus if you followed Roy you were getting knocked out because he had deadly power and lightning speed. It's a style no one will ever be able to successfully copy because of Roy reflexes. Both he and Floyd fought in the same era and no one ever said Floyd was near the talent or greatness of Roy.

Huh? From what alternate universe are you transmitting?

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This was a massive upset.

I thought that Smith would win, but never by early KO.

[Cortez]

Huh? From what alternate universe are you transmitting?

You must be a kid. Roy was always higher p4p than floyd in the ratings

[TheOneAboveAll]

You must be a kid. Roy was always higher p4p than floyd in the ratings

A kid? No, I have been here watching since the beginning. RJJr was a bigger star than Floyd during the 90's and early 00's. Floyd became the far bigger star years later. Roy was a great athlete and fighter for a time, but his technical deficiencies clearly caught up with him. This happened because he was nowhere near the overall fighter that Floyd was.