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========Has Roy ducked man fighters? Or has he not?===========
** Let's put it this way, Roy used to quack when he walked, until he got so old that he couldn't duck no more and wasn't even graced with a chicken dance on the way down.
There are over a dozen top fighters the Roy never faced, many of them HOFer types. Now we can excuse some of those potential fights by understanding that some were Brits who mainly fought in England and other Euro types, and it's almost impossible for any fighter to fight every credible contender since there is a constant rotation of top fighters. But even his fans started to abandon Roy, labeling him Reluctant Roy or No Stones Jones.
Fighters who jumped through all of Jones negotiating hoops and signed special Roy approved fight contracts left at the alter: Buster Douglas, Vasili Jirov, and Corrie Sanders. In addition Roy's top LH comp, DM, flew to Florida to attend one of Roy's fights against one of his municipal workers to promote a fight with Roy. Roy never acknowledged his presence. When the rematch with Bernard Hopkins was proposed, Roy went on TV before fighting a garbageman and just flat out told the public he was too big and strong for Bernard and "you don't want any part of this" instead of promoting a potential big money fight against a guaranteed HOFer.
Yeah, Roy, we musta forgot, LOL!
** Let's put it this way, Roy used to quack when he walked, until he got so old that he couldn't duck no more and wasn't even graced with a chicken dance on the way down.
There are over a dozen top fighters the Roy never faced, many of them HOFer types. Now we can excuse some of those potential fights by understanding that some were Brits who mainly fought in England and other Euro types, and it's almost impossible for any fighter to fight every credible contender since there is a constant rotation of top fighters. But even his fans started to abandon Roy, labeling him Reluctant Roy or No Stones Jones.
Fighters who jumped through all of Jones negotiating hoops and signed special Roy approved fight contracts left at the alter: Buster Douglas, Vasili Jirov, and Corrie Sanders. In addition Roy's top LH comp, DM, flew to Florida to attend one of Roy's fights against one of his municipal workers to promote a fight with Roy. Roy never acknowledged his presence. When the rematch with Bernard Hopkins was proposed, Roy went on TV before fighting a garbageman and just flat out told the public he was too big and strong for Bernard and "you don't want any part of this" instead of promoting a potential big money fight against a guaranteed HOFer.
Yeah, Roy, we musta forgot, LOL!
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