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I got this off another site. I thought it summed up my point of view quite nicely.
"You can't deny his talents but his outside the ring behavior for the last decade defined everything that is wrong with the sport of boxing. This man lied to the fans, spoiled many potential fights, and acted as though he was untouchable. He routinely acted like he was bigger than the sport and made it clear that in order for him to fight any legitimate threat, said threat would have to bend over backwards and make a load of sacrifices just to get the fight. He also consistently went out of his way to belittle, insult, and call out people he had no intention of fighting.
For some reason, fight fans accepted this garbage and even promoted it. They felt like Roy Jones could go around fighting obviously inferior competition without testing himself and he could just retain his p4p title no matter what. They gave him the pass because they foolishly thought he was unbeatable, so it didn't matter who he fought because he would beat everyone anyway. Of course this was ridiculous, but it mattered little in the eyes of many fans and members of the media.
Finally, we see why he avoided tough competition for so long. He went nearly a decade without fighting anyone who presented a challenge, and he got KTFO twice. Yes his reflexes have diminished, but that doesn't mean his chin just became tappable overnight. The chin was always there, it's just that he avoided top flight fighters for so long, and so many of his opponents were intimidated by him that they didn't really try to tap his chin, it never got tested. Is there really any question now as to why he didn't want to fight Michalczewski? Why he backed out of the Jirov fight with the contract signed by Jirov? Why he backed out of the Buster Douglas fight when the contract signed by Douglas? No. He might have been harder to hit, but that questionable chin was always there. (He forgot to mention Sanders)
Roy Jones was a great athletic talent but he was terrible for the sport in many ways. You don't deserve to be mentioned in the breath of greats like Hagler, Robinson, Leonard, Duran, Ali, and so forth when you refuse to test yourself and fight the best. This guy was bad for the sport of boxing and all I can say is good riddance. Glen Johnson was the best choice to flush Jones' career. Glen Johnson exemplifies everything that's good about the sport of boxing, he is the anti-Jones."
"You can't deny his talents but his outside the ring behavior for the last decade defined everything that is wrong with the sport of boxing. This man lied to the fans, spoiled many potential fights, and acted as though he was untouchable. He routinely acted like he was bigger than the sport and made it clear that in order for him to fight any legitimate threat, said threat would have to bend over backwards and make a load of sacrifices just to get the fight. He also consistently went out of his way to belittle, insult, and call out people he had no intention of fighting.
For some reason, fight fans accepted this garbage and even promoted it. They felt like Roy Jones could go around fighting obviously inferior competition without testing himself and he could just retain his p4p title no matter what. They gave him the pass because they foolishly thought he was unbeatable, so it didn't matter who he fought because he would beat everyone anyway. Of course this was ridiculous, but it mattered little in the eyes of many fans and members of the media.
Finally, we see why he avoided tough competition for so long. He went nearly a decade without fighting anyone who presented a challenge, and he got KTFO twice. Yes his reflexes have diminished, but that doesn't mean his chin just became tappable overnight. The chin was always there, it's just that he avoided top flight fighters for so long, and so many of his opponents were intimidated by him that they didn't really try to tap his chin, it never got tested. Is there really any question now as to why he didn't want to fight Michalczewski? Why he backed out of the Jirov fight with the contract signed by Jirov? Why he backed out of the Buster Douglas fight when the contract signed by Douglas? No. He might have been harder to hit, but that questionable chin was always there. (He forgot to mention Sanders)
Roy Jones was a great athletic talent but he was terrible for the sport in many ways. You don't deserve to be mentioned in the breath of greats like Hagler, Robinson, Leonard, Duran, Ali, and so forth when you refuse to test yourself and fight the best. This guy was bad for the sport of boxing and all I can say is good riddance. Glen Johnson was the best choice to flush Jones' career. Glen Johnson exemplifies everything that's good about the sport of boxing, he is the anti-Jones."
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