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

[Shaolin Bushido]

Well It's no secret that Roy Jones has spent a lot of his career avoiding the best in each division.

I think the reason was because Gerald McClellan was a friend of his, and after seeing what happened to him, it changed Roy forever... He only ever looked for fights that he KNEW he could win, or fights agaist fighters that weren't dangerous.

He's been quite vocal about this... I don't wanna harp on about Joe Calzaghe, but Roy Jones openly admitted - "I'll never fight Joe Calzaghe coz' he's too dangerous, he's fast, powerfull, hungry, and unbeaten. I can make easier money defending my belts against easier fighters".

That really F**ked me off when Jones said that, and I lost a lot of respect for him.

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[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Jones would have beaten the **** out of every guy named here. Eubank was nothing special, maybe in the UK but not in the U.S. All of these fighters were cowards, Jones had all the titles and none of them would fight him on U.S. soil. How does the challenger tell the champion where and when to defend his titles? Juy has been spamming these boards for months with this bull**** Eubank campaign, I'm starting to think its really Eubank posting this crap. Who has Eubank beaten? Benn>? Benn couldnt even beat Malinga who Jones knocked out in 6 rounds!!!

[SweetScience]

I think Roy beats them all but then again that why fights are won in the ring, not on paper.

Benn and Roy should of lucked horns in 95. Benn had defeated McClellan early in the year and Roy fought Vinny Paz that same year AND some stiffs the rest of the year.

As a fan of Roy, I wish he would've fought Benn, Liles and
Michalczewski.

[.::EnRiQuE::.]

i like roy jones

[MrUnstoppable]

Don't let hatred of Roy get in the way of what is reality. That happens way too much with the haters. Roy would've wiped the floor with everyone listed above. Nigel Benn was overrated and had the fight took place in the USA, McClellan would have won by KO and crossed paths with Jones eventually in his career. As far as Hopkins and Darius go, Hopkins turned down 6 mil (3 times what he made against Trinidad) to take on Roy in the rematch and Darius' punk ass didn't want to step up to the plate and leave Germany.

[bfg]

I would have loved to see Roy fight Eubank..I think he would've beat him but Eubank's whole image made you WANT him to get beat...he was an arrogant prick but funny, specially when he wandered around the ring posing between rounds....funny ****..Roy would ahve wiped the floor with Benn since Benn's defense ****** and he tended to get a little wild...Everybody always claims that this fighter ducked them, usually when said fighter is at the top of the heap and people are pissed that they didn't wind up there....should all be taken with a grain of salt...it happens of course but probably not as often as a number of fighters/promoters would like us to think...unfortunately it usually seems to come down to money in the end.....but those would have been great matches even if Roy swept them.

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

Don't let hatred of Roy get in the way of what is reality. That happens way too much with the haters. Roy would've wiped the floor with everyone listed above. Nigel Benn was overrated and had the fight took place in the USA, McClellan would have won by KO and crossed paths with Jones eventually in his career. As far as Hopkins and Darius go, Hopkins turned down 6 mil (3 times what he made against Trinidad) to take on Roy in the rematch and Darius' punk ass didn't want to step up to the plate and leave Germany.

There ain't no hatred of Roy here... I've got a lot of his fights and I have to say he was an exceptional talent!

But it's true... He did take the easy route everytime.

Baring that in mind... I still have a 1000 times more respect for Roy Jones than I have for Bernard Hopkins.

Even if Roy Jones did very carefully pick his opponents, he still had the imagination and courage to move up the weight classes and (Even if it wasn't the REAL heavyweight champion) take on John Ruiz who was naturally bigger than him.

Instead of old Bernard who just keeps targeting welterweights and lightweights, and if he does get forced into fighting a middleweight - RUNS for 12 rounds!

I've just read four pages of this and to be honest the majority of it's not been worth my while.

How many people on this thread have actually taken their heads out of their asses and stopped knee-jerk reacting long enough to actually READ the thread?

Who gives a **** whether or not RJJ would have beaten Benn and Eubank? (For the record, Eubank has "I doubt it" as his opinion on whether he would have beaten Roy - see his autobiography). The entire point of the whole thread is whether or not Roy ducked them. Doesn't matter what you think the outcome would or wouldn't have been. Doesn't matter if you want to turn this into some "you're just sticking up for Limeys" thread. It's irrevelant.

Did Roy duck them - YES or NO? That's what I read four pages of this for. I didn't get the answer from the majority of these posts.

And Martin - was that Calzaghe quote true?



From Boxing News: Roy claimed he was arranging a fight with Benn but Benn was too busy with a divorce.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

Roy was scared of Benn... Benn was a warrior that would have done to Roy Jones what Glen Johnson did to him, (only it would have happened 10yrs earlier).

Benn just kept coming forward throwing Bombs... That is the worst style for Roy Jones to be up against!

Roy knew that fighting Nigel Benn would be stepping into very dangerous ground.

Roy struggled with counter punchers. Harding, Griffen 1 and Tarver. A brawler like Benn W/ a questionable chin goes 5-7 at best W/ Roy Jones in 1996.

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

I've just read four pages of this and to be honest the majority of it's not been worth my while.

How many people on this thread have actually taken their heads out of their asses and stopped knee-jerk reacting long enough to actually READ the thread?

Who gives a **** whether or not RJJ would have beaten Benn and Eubank? (For the record, Eubank has "I doubt it" as his opinion on whether he would have beaten Roy - see his autobiography). The entire point of the whole thread is whether or not Roy ducked them. Doesn't matter what you think the outcome would or wouldn't have been. Doesn't matter if you want to turn this into some "you're just sticking up for Limeys" thread. It's irrevelant.

Did Roy duck them - YES or NO? That's what I read four pages of this for. I didn't get the answer from the majority of these posts.

And Martin - was that Calzaghe quote true?



From Boxing News: Roy claimed he was arranging a fight with Benn but Benn was too busy with a divorce.

Yeah, you know how these threads have a habit of going off topic. The quote of Roy jones is true, It was at the time when he was fighting Glen Kelly and it was on the Skysports website, (The article was about RJJ turning down the $6,000,000 offer to fight Joe Calzaghe). And that's when Roy basically said "piss off" to Joe... p.s... Part of the offer was that the fight would be fought in Las Vegas, it was seen as Joe Calzaghe's stepping stone fight.

Joe's still in Cardiff... LOL!...