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  • ssc73
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    #61
    Originally posted by JUYJUY
    1982 Florida Games - Gift Decision against Antonio Tarver in final

    1983 Florida Jr. Olympics - Lost

    1985 Florida Jr. Olympics - Lost

    He also Lost to Igor Ruzhnikov (Russia, 139, 1986), John Reid (Ireland, 156, 1986), Andy Liebing (Cuba, 156, 1986), Frank Liles (almost KTFO, US nationals, 156, 1988) and Gerald McClellan (US Golden Gloves, 156, 1988). Then, Jones got a gift to the 1988 Olympics when every sane person knows it should of been Gerald McClellan going to Seoul. Mediocre Richie Woodhall gave Jones a very close fight in the semi-finals. Then Park Si-Hun was Jones' 13th amateur loss.


    Also remember that Jermain Taylor looked better against Bernard Hopkins than Jones did and that Michael Nunn looked better against James Toney than Jones did. People should not forget the Schooling that Montell Griffin put on Jones. Let's not forget 40-year-old Mike McCallum giving Jones a really close fight. Let's not forget Lou Del Valle almost KTFO Jones. Let's not forget Antonio Tarver KTFO Jones. Let's not forget Glencoffe Johnson KTFO Jones. Let's not forget Antonio Tarver beat Jones four times - 1982 (robbed), 2003 (robbed), 2004 and 2005. Jones' best resume is the guys he avoided and ducked - Gerald McClellan, Lamar Parks, Julian Jackson, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Michael Nunn, Graciano Rocchigiani, Fabrice Tiozzo, Steve Collins, Henry Maske, Dariusz Michalczewski, James Toney II, Bernard Hopkins II, Joe Calzaghe, Vassilliy Jirov, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, the list goes on.
    How did I end up here? I can't believe it but I couldn't take this post.....

    I would LOVE to go through and tear this to shreds, which would be very easy, but you're clearly a complete waste of time. But let's add a few things you've left out.....first and foremost all your 'robbed' is your opinion based on either something Tarver said or you read.

    Jones didn't 'run for his life' from Hopkins. He won the first half easily, broke his hand, and still won very comfortably and Hopkins didn't do ****.

    If you watch McClellan and Benn in their tragic fight and think that they would be able to find Jones, let alone fend him off without getting beaten half to death, good for you. Jackson, not quick enough or big enough, was cleaned up by McClellan, and after Benn-McClellan, Benn, Collins and Eubank were all pretty much done. Very short periods of success by comparison and you don't have to be a genius to see why they fought each other in England rather than come here and get humiliated.

    Michael Nunn got KTFO by Toney and moved to 168 after that fight before Jones even fought Hopkins. Toney and Nunn were in the middle of setting up their rematch when Nunn lost and his next fight was above 190#. That led to Jones replacing Nunn and while Toney talked all kinds of ****, he won 2-3 rounds. Tops. NO INTEREST IN A REMATCH......

    And Roy accomplished plenty at 175. McCallum at LHW was NOT a close fight. Jones carried him out of respect...........some people's brain-damaged children. He KO'd Virgil Hill and KO'd two guys that beat the heil out of Dariusz.....

    Also, before Jones went to HW where he hoped it would be Holyfield, both before and after, the guy he 'ducked', Daruisz, was making 1.5 million per fight. He was offered $5 M on 3 different occasions to come to the US and fight Jones...........NOPE. DIDN"T WANT IT, Same With Rocchigiani though the offer was less, still more than triple his usual salary.

    Jones v Hopkins 2 didn't happen because Hopkins thought he should get 50/50. Toney made damn sure to eat himself away from Jones the rest of his damn career.

    Jones beat Tarver the first fight. After that, and a 'horrendous' record of 121-13 in the amateurs, he was done. After a long period of time, punch tolerance drops, particularly after what Jones foolishly did to his body.

    Griffin gave him a rough night on a bad night. But Jones was in the middle of knocking his ass out and about to take the lead on the best possible scorecard for Griffin........did you see the fight?

    Anything that happened after Jones-Tarver 2 is not worth talking about. He had lost a split second of reflexes that separated him from every fighter in history. Dariusz got beat by Gonzalez, who Jones had dropped 3 times in a 12 rd UD after a punch count of 51% to 15% and 195-91 and a score of 119-106. Tarver isn't exactly the shiniest example of greatness himself. He talked **** about Jones and dropping weight, then used the exact same excuse against Hopkins.

    And you believe he should have given up all that weight to Lewis? That's a 'duck'..........that is absolutely ******ed. No LHW in history would have considered it. They fought HW back in the day because their walk around weight was only about 10 pounds different than HW. Jones beat Ruiz who beat Holyfield who beat Tyson......not exactly his fault that his one and done ended up being the least interesting choice but he still did it and came back too quickly, but still beat Tarver.

    If he'd have been smart like he always promised he would, he'd have walked at 49-1, that 1 being a BS DQ, with 38 KO's and after McClellan-Benn, he asked the ref to stop many of those fights........he also could have knocked out others.

    Vassily Jirov? Get serious. Calzaghe was offered a fight. During the prime of both fighters, same as Hopkins. Nunn would have been KO'd the same way he was vs Toney.

    Take away the BS DQ and he just may well have walked at 50-0 w 39 KO's and I bet that would have KILLED YOU.......eh?

    You're basically left with a couple of standing 8's in the amateurs, which mean very little, a couple of close scores in a bad scoring system, Tyson, Lewis and Vasily Jirov. Becasue when did anyone clamor for the Jirov fight?

    Del Valle landed a bizarre temple shot, to which Jones jumped right up from. And when he beat Eric Harding as a mandatory it was because.......Oh yea, Harding beat Tarver and while Harding was an awkward opponent, he was behind on all cards when he retired on the stool.......

    He also made several future champions look like complete bums, including one he beat the hell out of Dariusz......

    Who had a chance? Maybe McClellan but he was so used to going short rounds, he probably would have gassed early and got KO'd. The rest of this is garbage. The Jones in the first Tarver fight, let alone the second, third and the one who fought Johnson was simply not the same.......

    You're a clown. YDKSAB...........and I'd love to pull the documentation up to prove it, I don't have anymore time to waste on the UNDISPUTEDLY BEST FIGHTER FROM TONEY (arguably Hopkins 1) TO TARVER 1..........

    So take this and this before I really make you look like a :wank: with your cute little list........ and :****you:


    You can freely have Tiozzo, who made a career of beating up other Frenchmen, then KO'ing Dariusz after a comeback attempt 18 mos after losing to Gonzalez and after Jones had already lost.

    You can also have all the post Tarver 1 fights because it's tantamount to saying that after losing his 5th MW title, Robinson turned himself into a bum.....you are entitled to that opinion.......but you don't get to use opinion as fact and go unchallenged in your bias.........what next, he shouldn't have been awarded the Val Barker trophy? SMDH

    Go troll after someone else......check on all the guys Calzaghe didn't fight.....how about that? Or Benn? Any of the guys you mention.......have fun on your fool's errand, fool.

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    • BattlingNelson
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      #62
      Originally posted by wpink1
      i am just getting in on this Roy Jones Debate. Roy jones had the talent that maybe a only a robinson, leonard, and now mayweather has. He was faster than leonard with the counter, and combinations up to 2-3 punches. His awkwardness and speed was used for defense, minimizing the punches he had to take, and making b fighters look like c and d fighters.

      However, he did not fight top fighters. I read a post on here that listed champions that he fought hmmmm. You need to tell the entire pictures. Griffen was very very overrated, he just had a style that confused many, but was never an A fighter. Virgil hill was over the hill when roy fought him, including a loss to ancient tommy hearns a couple of years prior. Paz..was retired for a while due to neck surgery and then came back and moved up to fight roy, McCallum was damm near 40. The rest of the fighters you mention were alphabet title holders, not A fighters except for Hopkins and Toney.

      Hopkins was a clear victory for Roy, but did roy show us anything in this fight, if your comparing him to such greats pound per pound like a leonard, duran, etc....Hopkins was green first title fight, out of the pin, and the truth is Hopkins to this day has never...NEVER... beaten a A level Middleweight that did not bloat themselves up to meet him. DLH and Tito...that is it and they were welters,.... So that is one of Roy's quality wins. Toney is the other, and I don't believe in excuses,,but if you buy the excuse roy made against Tarver in the 1st fight about being drained and this impacted his abilities in that fight, then Toney did the same thing to somewhat, to get down for the Jones fight. No he did not have to lose muscle, but he had to lose a lot of weight and was clealry drained in the fight, he could not even sweat, as he was dehydrated..big time...

      I used to love Roy, but even if you give him kudos for Hopkins and Toney, then from 94- 05 he beat no one worth mentioning. He hid behind bogus policies that stated mandatory challenger, when no other great did..Hmmmm Leonard moved all around to fight the best, DLH, Mayweather, Mosley, hmmm so why did roy avoid Benn, McCllelan, eubanks, DM, Collins, etc... That is a lot of fighters to avoid, when your resume doesn't have a list of top rated fighters to offset this., or should I say top rated fighter during their prime. Yes Roy would be favored to beat these fighters,,,but that is why you fight, to see just how good you are. Remember when everyone had penciled in Mosly as the best pound per pound in the world, the true 3rd member of the Sugar lineage. Then he fought a person who gave him troubles as a amature (McCllelan for Roy) in Forrest, but Mosley was the great pro right, and he would win right...Well what happened when they stepped off of the paper that said who would win and acutally got in the ring.....

      Yes Roy had great great skills, but he did not prove it against A fighters, therefore he is not an all time great, he is a Alltime great talent.
      Wpink on target as per usual.

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      • IronDanHamza
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        #63
        Originally posted by BattlingNelson
        Wpink on target as per usual.
        Sounds more like excuses to me.

        Roy Jones never beat an A fighter? Not an ATG? Good joke.

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          #64
          Originally posted by BattlingNelson
          Wpink on target as per usual.
          You're nut hugging a post that is nearly a decade old.

          So what is the point, btw?

          After dissing all of prime RJJr's wins, then what?

          Is this some kind of round-a-bout way of smoking Calzaghe pole?

          Or Kessler?

          Is that it? You are making the case that prime Kessler > prime RJJr? Or maybe it can be bent around to Kessler > Andre Ward?

          I don't get it...

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            #65
            Originally posted by IronDanHamza
            Sounds more like excuses to me.

            Roy Jones never beat an A fighter?
            Which wpink never said.

            Not an ATG? Good joke.
            Depends upon his definition.

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            • BattlingNelson
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              #66
              Originally posted by lefthook2daliva
              You're nut hugging a post that is nearly a decade old.

              So what is the point, btw?

              After dissing all of prime RJJr's wins, then what?

              Is this some kind of round-a-bout way of smoking Calzaghe pole?

              Or Kessler?

              Is that it? You are making the case that prime Kessler > prime RJJr? Or maybe it can be bent around to Kessler > Andre Ward?

              I don't get it...
              Don't worry. It's ok.

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              • IronDanHamza
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                #67
                Originally posted by BattlingNelson
                Which wpink never said.


                Depends upon his definition.
                Ok so explain to me what this sentence means;

                "Yes Roy had great skills but he did not prove it against A fighters"

                He's an ATG under any definition. Clear and obvious ATG and the #1 fighter of his era.

                The poster clearly has a dislike for Roy Jones and is making excuses for every win he has.
                Last edited by IronDanHamza; 08-28-2015, 06:09 AM.

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by IronDanHamza
                  Ok so explain to me what this sentence means;

                  "Yes Roy had great skills but he did not prove it against A fighters"

                  He's an ATG under any definition. Clear and obvious ATG and the #1 fighter of his era.

                  The poster clearly has a dislike for Roy Jones and is making excuses for every win he has.
                  I stopped reading when he said "Jones never fought top fighters." At that point it was nothing more than an agenda.

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by IronDanHamza
                    Ok so explain to me what this sentence means;

                    "Yes Roy had great skills but he did not prove it against A fighters"
                    Re-read please.

                    not A fighters except for Hopkins and Toney.
                    He's an ATG under any definition. Clear and obvious ATG and the #1 fighter of his era.

                    You are better than this. What if he has a very narrow definition of being worthy of the mythical ATG tag?

                    The poster clearly has a dislike for Roy Jones and is making excuses for every win he has.
                    Ok.

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                    • IronDanHamza
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                      #70
                      Originally posted by BattlingNelson
                      Re-read please.





                      You are better than this. What if he has a very narrow definition of being worthy of the mythical ATG tag?



                      Ok.
                      Ok so he did fight A fighters.

                      So why close the post with "Jones never proved it against A fighters?" then?

                      Oh that's right maybe because he's conventintly got every excuse ready under the sun for those two wins.

                      So it's either he didn't fight A fighters or he did fight A fighters BUT..

                      Clearly and obviously biased and just flat out wrong in some cases.

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