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On Saturday night, October 1st at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, Roy Jones, the most talented boxer of the last thirty years, will march out of his corner with the same stubborn, self-reverential resolve that has polarized fight fans throughout his career, and risk further neurological damage at the hands of a man who precipitated the most dramatic fall from grace ever seen in the sport. In the space of two years, seven months, Roy Jones has gone from being untouchable as a fighter to something close to an Untouchable-devalued, disgraced, and dismissed. There's something in his psychological make-up that can't accept this and he has taken steps to rectify the situation. But there's a problem. Roy Jones, for all his otherworldly skill, is now fighting in some form of diminished capacity. He is a damaged man who shouldn't be in a boxing ring ever again. Being knocked unconscious by a C minus punch delivered by a C plus fighter is a signal.
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