Benn: "Jones dodged me", Eubank: "Roy avoided my calls", Collins: "Roy ran scared!",

[JUYJUY]

Probably fair comment from you guys.

Benn certainly doesnt deserve to be(imo) in the upper tier of HOF MW's or SMW.

WHAT??

Benn made 10 defences of WBC Super-Middleweight title, and that division has only been a round a few years.

Benn is arguably the best SMW ever.

[J !]

Probably fair comment from you guys.

Benn certainly doesnt deserve to be(imo) in the upper tier of HOF MW's or SMW.

bollox with a capital B.

Ben did mor ethan kmost went abroad to obtain the title took on an HOFamer in Barkly and iced him ina round.

Beat another hall of famer in Mcllellan whats does the bloke have to do then.


**** me rapid.

[Cletus Funk]

WHAT??

Benn made 10 defences of WBC Super-Middleweight title, and that division has only been a round a few years.

Benn is arguably the best SMW ever.

He fought more top class fighter's than any other SMW too.

[OliverNo1]

Ouch - I did say IMO.

Just out of interest you guys - where do you rank Benn against guys like Hagler/SRL/Monzon etc?

I suspect he would have "ktfo" of them would he?

[Cletus Funk]

Ouch - I did say IMO.

Just out of interest you guys - where do you rank Benn against guys like Hagler/SRL/Monzon etc?

I suspect he would have "ktfo" of them would he?

hehehe...I'd give him zero chance against those guys but I'd love to see him against Hearns.

[OliverNo1]

Im a brit too-but the way he quit on the stool against collins just disgusted me-a taste i never managed to rid myself of.........

In fairness he was a very good fighter, could **** and had a good resume. So i spose i must be talking bollox.........

[JUYJUY]

Ouch - I did say IMO.

Just out of interest you guys - where do you rank Benn against guys like Hagler/SRL/Monzon etc?

I suspect he would have "ktfo" of them would he?

Benn would of KO'd Hearns and Leonard when they wanted to fight him in 1990. But I don't think that he would of stood much chance against Hagler or Hearns at their bests, although having said that you wouldn't write Benn off against anybody. Leonard wasn't really a natural MW, he was a Welterweight.

You have to remember that Benn didn't spend long at MW, he spent longer at SMW. He is arguably the greatest SMW there has been, along with Chris Eubank.

[Cletus Funk]

Im a brit too-but the way he quit on the stool against collins just disgusted me-a taste i never managed to rid myself of.........

In fairness he was a very good fighter, could **** and had a good resume. So i spose i must be talking bollox.........

Yeah, that pissed me off too. He shouldn't have been in the ring in the 1st place though, you could tell he was gone in the Malinga fight.

[JUYJUY]

you could tell he was gone in the Malinga fight.

Totally disagree with that, more like you could tell he was gone in the Nardiello and Perez fights! Benn looked slow, easy to hit and a shadow of his former self in those few fights after McClellan. So I predicted that Malinga would win (nobody gave Malinga a chance though, which I couldn't understand because Benn was clearly done), it was only Benn's awkwardness and 'whacking' ability that got him through the Nardiello and Perez fights - they just couldn't take Benn's whacks and crumbled. But Malinga had a solid chin and good staying power (even though he was knocked down by the frustrated Benn in that fight).

[Bad Intentions]

Steve Collins travelled like 10,000 miles to go all the way to Pensicola and climb in the ring after Jones Jr fights asking him in front of the whole of America for a unification clash. Collins was at Jones Jr's press conferences calling him every name under the sun, coward etc. There is no excuses here.

Eubank was ringing Jones Jr up all the time, Jones Jr hung up on him. Eubank was ringing HBO trying to arrange something. No excuses.

Benn said that he'd put his $6million purse from the Jones Jr fight straight into the Gerald McClellan trust fund. No excuses.

Jones Jr was too scared to fight these great fighters, and preferred to spar with awful opposition instead. You can't defend him, because there is nothing to defend him with. If the case went to court, the verdict would easily be that Jones Jr avoided these guys.

Benn and Eubank are the biggest legends in British boxing history, so I guess they are nobodies right? Jones Jr will be never be as big a name as these guys, in his dreams.

The Benn-Eubank re-match sold-out in a matter of HOURS, 50,000 tickets. There was a 24+ million audience watching it in Britain (more people watched the Benn-Eubank fight than ANYTHING else on British TV! Not even the Queen's speech got as many viewers as Benn and Eubank!). From their re-match in the early 90's, which Don King promoted, Benn picked up £1.75million and Eubank picked up £1.25million (that's about about $3million each), and this was all the way back in 1993. What did Jones Jr and Hopkins earn from their fight in 1993? Not even six-figure fees! Benn and Eubank were earning seven-figure fees, at the same Jones Jr and Hopkins were earning five-figure fees.

You idiot.

I bet Roy has made more money then them now, u mean they will never be a big name like Jones, if u ask a non boxing fan who Jones is they will most likely no, but ask them who Eubank is or BEnn, they will be like i dont kno. Roy woulda beay any of them at 168, he beat Toney and Hopkins 2 of the top fighters today and one of them is p4p number one and people say he never beat no one. it just doesnt make sense.