Is Roy Jones Jr the Greatest Light Heavyweight ever?

[ferocity]

Jones beat plenty of good fighters, and several HOF caliber fighters in stunning fashion. Toney, Hopkins, Hill, Griffin...ordinary fighters do not beat these type of guys routinely, and they especially do not beat these guys the way that Roy was able to.

True. But some of his performance was ****ty. I don't recall how many fighters he started taking the distance just to go the distance. And at one time he did run of of good oppisition then when he found some, he didn't step in the ring with them, he could have "probably" beat them but thats all assumption. He could have been even great by simply beating these guys, but theres a lot of what if's.

[ferocity]

dude, foster's big wins were vicente rodon and **** tiger, i'm positive roy's resume is better than that.

So what do you think of Spinks? I've seen some fights of Spinks and he was a baddass. Thats the type of fighter that would have made Jones Jr. stay at super middleweight.

[brownpimp88]

So what do you think of Spinks? I've seen some fights of Spinks and he was a baddass. Thats the type of fighter that would have made Jones Jr. stay at super middleweight.

Yeah, spink is trained to beat boxer-punchers. He would have kicked roy's ass, the guy beat larry holmes, gerry cooney, qawi, eddie mustafa and marvin johnson.

[drclifton@couns]

I liked Victor Galindez, Bob Foster, and Virgil Hill and maybe Galindez and Foster could have beaten Jones but I don't think Hill could have.

I also think two of the best who never made champion were
Yaqui Lopez and Jorge Ahumada.