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i'm a roy jones fan. i followed him from his days of middleweight to present. many people called his skills "smoke and mirrors" but to people who have actually been in the ring like i have...they know that he had a god given talent. he broke the rules...and he was respected and dis-respected because of it. now before you go on to "hey it's another roy-nutthugger" let me voice out that i never believed roy was invincible and that the smothering tactics used by glen johnson was just the thing to beat RJ.
i feel his best days were at super middleweight. i marveled at this person who threw lightning fast hooks at all angles and had the power to keep people at bay. he had the timing to beat people to the punch with the swagger to go along with it. he knew when to draw an opponent in and when to press. and i often watched and imitated him not by his punching technique but how he was able to use timing and distance (something many amatuers don't spend a lot of time on) to give himself punching room while making an "escape route" so that he could just slipp away untouched. if you watch his old tapes his foot work is a masterpiece. and any damn fighter, no matter how anti-roy they are, will look at it and even admit "damn...that was smooth".
his knockout loss to glencoffe johnson proved something that i knew awhile ago. even back to the day when he beat virgil hill with that wicked body shot.....roy has no hunger. it's not in his eyes anymore. he believed the hype. he believed all that superman bull****...and when you put yourself in a pedestal so high...people can tip it over and you come crashing down. there is nothing spectacular about johnson...or even tarver for that matter. the roy jones of the early and mid 90s would have easily out pointed both. but alas 25 years of ring wear has taken it's toll...hanging on the ropes will only get you so far roy....
as for a come back. please roy...just bow out. you have nothing left to prove. not from internet posters, the larry merchants, the media, nobody. you proved it to us, the fighters...the ones who know the on-goings in the ring. things that are missed when you only view it from ringside or the television. you got our respect...we don't need another casualty in boxing, especially for one who has given a lot to the sport.
i feel his best days were at super middleweight. i marveled at this person who threw lightning fast hooks at all angles and had the power to keep people at bay. he had the timing to beat people to the punch with the swagger to go along with it. he knew when to draw an opponent in and when to press. and i often watched and imitated him not by his punching technique but how he was able to use timing and distance (something many amatuers don't spend a lot of time on) to give himself punching room while making an "escape route" so that he could just slipp away untouched. if you watch his old tapes his foot work is a masterpiece. and any damn fighter, no matter how anti-roy they are, will look at it and even admit "damn...that was smooth".
his knockout loss to glencoffe johnson proved something that i knew awhile ago. even back to the day when he beat virgil hill with that wicked body shot.....roy has no hunger. it's not in his eyes anymore. he believed the hype. he believed all that superman bull****...and when you put yourself in a pedestal so high...people can tip it over and you come crashing down. there is nothing spectacular about johnson...or even tarver for that matter. the roy jones of the early and mid 90s would have easily out pointed both. but alas 25 years of ring wear has taken it's toll...hanging on the ropes will only get you so far roy....
as for a come back. please roy...just bow out. you have nothing left to prove. not from internet posters, the larry merchants, the media, nobody. you proved it to us, the fighters...the ones who know the on-goings in the ring. things that are missed when you only view it from ringside or the television. you got our respect...we don't need another casualty in boxing, especially for one who has given a lot to the sport.
to your mom..
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