When Roy Jones won the heavyweight title could he have beaten Mike Tyson at the time?

[dc3383]

Roy should have fought Tyson instead of losing 25lbs to fight Tarver; it was the biggest mistake of his career. That fight would have done over a million buys on PPV and if survives the first couple of rds its a fight he probally wins.

[Da7thsign]

Even that version of Tyson puts Roy to sleep in 5 rounds... Just too much power and aggression. And like everyone else said, if I was Roy at that time, I'd have avoided him too. Just too much of a physical advantage along with a very good technique.

[Deal With It]

Speed kills.

Tyson would've got outboxed for 12 rounds. Jones would've made it look easy.

He was way too slow for Jones at that point in his career, he would've never caught him flush.

Can't think of a Heavyweight in the history of the sport that was as fast as the version of Jones that fought Ruiz. Too bad he didn't stay at Heavyweight, there were alot of interesting fights that could've been made.

[Deal With It]

Jones beats any Heavyweight from the 90's on up if the old mininum weight limit of 176 for Heavys was still in place.

He would come in at around a Marciano/Dempsey weight and straight up wreck ****. He would've owned the division for years.

[chillifists]

Mike Tyson at this time defined the term 'shot'..he was no more than an inpatient, undisciplined 3 round fighter at best. Roy's prime hadn't dropped off the face of the earth at this point in time and think he had enough footwork and speed to steer clear away from anything Tyson threw at him.

Roy would do everything possible to not feel the breeze of Tyson's shots and have on his best dancing shoes for the 1st couple of rounds. After 3 rounds when Tyson would be huffing and puffing, plodding around the ring is when Jones would start opening up a little more to frustrate Mike with his speed, skills and reflexes to a wide UD unless Tyson stayed in his corner before the final bell.

Roy looked good at his one fight at heavyweight!

[Mr. Philadel]

man look...Roy is the BEST ever in my eyes....yea, the BEST I've layed my eyes on...meaining the BEST I've seen in MY lifetime....with that said, Mike imo would've touched his chin and Roy would've fell down and went to sleep...thats all to it!!

[jrosales13]

Umm no homie. Jones did not want any part of Tyson at the time. That's why when there was talks about the fight jones said he wanted a 100 million dollars for the fight

Nah...He really wanted Tyson. He also wanted Holyfield. When he couldn't get them he went back down to LHW and fought Tarver.

[jrosales13]

man look...Roy is the BEST ever in my eyes....yea, the BEST I've layed my eyes on...meaining the BEST I've seen in MY lifetime....with that said, Mike imo would've touched his chin and Roy would've fell down and went to sleep...thats all to it!!

Better than B-Hop?

[Larry the boss]

1 shot fromTyson ends the fight

[Larry the boss]

Jones beats any Heavyweight from the 90's on up if the old mininum weight limit of 176 for Heavys was still in place.

He would come in at around a Marciano/Dempsey weight and straight up wreck ****. He would've owned the division for years.

lmfao..so he beats lennox lewis,foreman,holyfield,bowe,briggs,rahman????