Roy Jones should try to change his style....

[aaalex]

I think, that the Roy should not pass in easier weight category.
It very much will affect his health!

[gogan]

jones new technique should be retirment (period).

[Moon]

After watching Roy's last two fight I don't think he is completley shot, he just needs to make some adjustments. At 35 I think it would be better if he moved more and kept both his hands up.

This is just plain nonsense.

If RJ could "move more", he would, but, he can't. His 35-year old legs are gone and that means he gets caught. Even with his "hands up" he can't be saved from his soft chin.

[Moon]

jones new technique should be retirment (period).

Nuff said, end of this discussion. He's shot, by anybody's standard.

[aaalex]

Legs here at anything!
At him the motivation was gone, that is the desire to aspire to something...

[NemesisChylde]

You might be on to something there. If you've already been at the top, and been the best, what's the point in keeping on at it? More money? I think Roy probably has enough money, even with Ivan wiping out all his roosters again.

[aaalex]

Interestingly, all will return RJ whether or not...?

[simeraksou]

well, his legs aren't what they used to be and his motivation are gone. in his last fight, it seems that his punches are still quick and he still has nice combinations. i think he will return in 2005 for one last match or two. possibly one tune up bout then a bout against the winner of tarver-johnson?

[Neuraxis]

It seems like he already changed his style. Recently he hasn't been acting inappropriately as an HBO commentator.

[phallus]

The thing i loved about Roy was that his style was individual and natural to him. Roy has always fought his own way and nobody elses way, his trainers could never get him to change how he fights because that is how is has been comfortable over the years and his record speaks for itself in that department. Once a style and a certain way of fighting is grounded into a fighters mind it's hard to learn any different.

that is really beautiful Wez. There's an old saying that "things can only be what they are". Roy can't change his style, it's the only way he knows how to fight. i see stuff like this all the time, a boxer will get a new trainer, new trainer will try to make boxer into a different natural style than he is, it might work for a while when there;s no pressure, but i guarantee when the **** goes down he will go back to his natural style. If RJJ tries to use another style he'll get KTFO'd again and again, because he'll have to hestiate, think about what he's doing, instead of doing what comes natural. Stay home Roy, raise prize roosters, make rap records about Fat Joe leaning back, and work for HBO sitting next to BIg Geogre Foreman and the drunk Larry Merchant. Don't let pride make you another Holyfield