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Yea, he was getting popped left and right.
He proved his atg chin many times against atg punchers.
He proved his atg chin many times against atg punchers.
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i don't see what the big deal is with roy jones and this chin s***. dude had fought like what over 40 fights @ 35 years old when tarver caught him, and his chin was still "suspect"?...i been made the assessment that his chin was not granite, but decent after he got up from the del valle knockdown, all the shots he took from griffin and tarver in the first fights, and he took a good right hand from ruiz that if he was truly china chinned, would have put him on his back...
soooo....it was obvious that he was fighting bigger, stronger cats by the time he moved up to 175...not out of the realm of possibility that one of 'em would be able to land a ko shot on him once he lost a step....hell it took your boy hopkins 20 years to fight another lightheavyweight after he lost his first fight at lightheavy....Last edited by djtmal; 01-03-2012, 02:12 PM.Comment
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i rate his resume as a A- its great what he managed to accomplish in his career being a 4 weight division champion and beating the best of his division, i however gave him A- because of the fact that there Could have been fights with fighters such as the following weight divisions:
Super Middleweight:
Gerald Mclellan
Benn or Eubank
Heavyweight:
Lennox Lewis
Either K-Brother
Holyfield
Byrd
(I say HW because i believe if he stayed at HW he would have had an even better record either then having beaten just ruiz and probably would have lost sooner or later because of the fact about the competition back in the Heavyweight division was better and would have done wonders for his legacy then, but instead made the worst move ever by dropping back down to LHW, Not included Mike Tyson to roster because in 2003 when Roy became champion mike was not exactly going to be a good win since he was on the end of his career)Comment
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Say his chin isnt that good. The fact that he went 15 years with only one knockdown, shows that he was basically un hittable. Who else has gone that long. Floyd? He sat down cause his hand hurt, and Judah put him down but it wasnt counted.
The thing is, when it comes to chins it always better not to get hit then to have a good chin.
Margarito, Shane, De La hoya , the nicaraguan, they all have great chins, and Shane And oscar had great skill as well, but they arent on Floyd or Roy level because those guys were hittable and Roy and Floyd were not.
No matter how hard your chin is, Felix Trinidad, and Mike Tyson will put you down with one solid flush shot to the Jaw. Avoiding the punch is the only thing that will save you, and Floyd, and Roy could do that all night.
Roys ability to be unhittable nulifies talk of a weak chin because its a moot point. It doesnt matter what his chin is like because during his prime 40 fights showed that he couldnt be touched.Comment
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And without a doubt, Roy Jones Jr in his prime is absolutely the best pfp boxer ever. Completely and totally unbeatable.Comment
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This is for you and dazed. Im ONLY talking about roy's chin from the perspective of him fighting the best fighters of all time pfp. Im not talking about him having no chin, or a suspect chin in his era. My entire responses are based on some posters in this thread who think jones in his prime would beat anyone all time pfp.
I feel that the way he went out vs tarver when he got blasted out is a basis to consider him more vulnerable vs fellow atg prime fighters. If dazed doesnt think it has any bearing on how those fantasy fights would play out. More power to him. I think it does, and on top of that, his mentality of appearing to give up
When faced with that adversity might rear its head.
And im not talking about trying to get up after getting blasted. Im talking qbout trying to fight when facing true adversity.Comment
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