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Roy dropped Griffin in the 7th, and yet he came back and won the 8th round, so you don't know what would have happened. It doesn't matter what happened in the rematch, it doesn't change what happened in the first fight, and that was Roy Jones getting outboxed in his prime. It's a shame he was reluctant to face the better fighters out there (after the Toney fight), we would have seen more how good Roy really was.
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Roy dropped Griffin in the 7th, and yet he came back and won the 8th round, so you don't know what would have happened. It doesn't matter what happened in the rematch, it doesn't change what happened in the first fight, and that was Roy Jones getting outboxed in his prime. It's a shame he was reluctant to face the better fighters out there (after the Toney fight), we would have seen more how good Roy really was. -
This dude has his mind made up and is ignoring every sensible thing in this thread.Comment
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He had to stop juicing to move back down to LHWComment
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Good point, the first time in his career that Jones was tested, he was caught with 6 times the legal limit of testosterone in his system, and tested positive for an anabolic steroid. We don't know what he used, however people do note that he started to decline around this time. It's interesting to note that Roy Jones' record is 13-7 since he was caught using anabolic steroids.Comment
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The usual trolls and euro assclowns.Comment
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LHW is the most dangerous weight class IMHO. These guys are always in shape as the weight is average for a man. There's nothing to do but work on strength. Not too much making weight and all that crap.
Roy should have never went up to LHW. But I'm proud of him for doing it.Comment
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when i look at the career of roy jones, jr., wins, i think his most legit fights were against:
castro
toney
hopkins (1st fight)
griffin (both fights)
hill
tarver
r. johnson
harding
i thought, roy jones jr. faced pretty good to equal competition in these fights, but i thought roy jones, jr., for the most part, was able to figure out his competition's style early in the fight, and take his opponent out of the fight early on...of course, montell griffin in the first fight, and antonio tarver, proved to be roy jones' nemesis, but i also thought, that eric harding, gave roy jones problems as well...most of roy jones', campbell soup mad weak fights, were against ranked fighters in the 175 lb. division, but i felt, that roy jones jr, could have dug a little deeper for a better opponent, than some of the mad funny, sideshow fights, that turned a lot of hardcore fans off, like the one that was staged, in radio city music hall, complete with the rockettes...Last edited by djtmal; 05-16-2012, 05:17 PM.Comment
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The poor fights he was making against overmatched opposition is what turned me off Roy Jones at the time. He was knocking out bums left right and centre and proclaiming himself P4P number 1, really annoyed me. The likes of Steve Collins, Nigel Benn, Michael Nunn, G-Man were all desperate to fight Roy, and he acted like he'd never heard of themComment
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It's funny your screen name is of someone who has a similar fight style Roy Jones Jr fight style, lol. If you look at the fight predictions from Boxingscenes.com for Williams vs Martinez 2 you will see RJJ picked Martinez to win. Mostly all the others boxers were going with Williams. Check it here http://www.boxingscene.com/khan-fore...illiams--32973Comment
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I'm a big fan of Sergio! he's my favourite fighter today. Indeed, I'm sure Sergio took parts of his style from Roy Jones himself. Roy Jones is a great boxing analyst, I enjoy watching and listening to him on HBO, it's a shame he's not on more regularly.
As I said, I was a big fan of Roy Jones back in the day, but the fights he was making against the likes of Frazier, Kelly and so on really turned me off. It's hard to gauge how good Roy was, because although he smashed James Toney, Toney was drained. I would have liked to see Roy fight DM, Roy would have won that fight, but he was too afraid to risk it and test himself.Comment
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