Roy Jones was awful last night.

[El Manos]

Can you give specific examples when you though he was awful?

I just watched the fight and he seemed ok to me.

Roy even remembered 'the other guy' name lol

He continues to contradict Max when Ruslan was coming on. Even when it was obvious Bradley was getting hurt in some exchanges Roy would say "Ruslan hurt doe, Max" "He got nothing on his punches". But I will admit I had Bradley winning by a point. Ruslan took too many rounds off without punching enough. Freddy Roach even talked to Max about it between rounds. Now he wants to flip flop after the fight with excuses like he did to Marquez.

[Motofan]

Roy is always horrible as a commentator. He just waits for his time to say "So and so is hurt! He's hurt! He's hurt Jim. He's hurt bad!" He does this multiple times in every fight. He also talked about how both fighters were "equally hurt and ready to go" last night in like the third round before Bradley had even really landed a clean shot. At least they got him to stop talking about God every two seconds. Now if they can get him to just stop stepping all over what Jim and Max say it would be great. Remember when Jim said (I think it was in the Pac Marquez 4 fight) "At the end of the night these two fighters will know each other better than anyone else ever could." Only to have Roy chime in with "And so will everybody else." He sucks. But so do the vast majority of ex fighters.

[#1Assassin]

Apart from he said that at the very start of the round not the end.

so what? that makes no difference.

bradley came out boxing at the start of the round having been hurt in the previous one. roy rightfully made the point that hes making the necessary adjustments and is now fighting his kind of fight.

like is said before, he isnt breaking down how the fight is going. he doesnt need to wait and see how well bradley does boxing. roy just wants to make the point that hes trying to adapt and make it a different kind of fight, a fight more beneficial to himself.

he was spot on.

[Light_Speed]

Roy is always horrible as a commentator. He just waits for his time to say "So and so is hurt! He's hurt! He's hurt Jim. He's hurt bad!" He does this multiple times in every fight. He also talked about how both fighters were "equally hurt and ready to go" last night in like the third round before Bradley had even really landed a clean shot. At least they got him to stop talking about God every two seconds. Now if they can get him to just stop stepping all over what Jim and Max say it would be great. Remember when Jim said (I think it was in the Pac Marquez 4 fight) "At the end of the night these two fighters will know each other better than anyone else ever could." Only to have Roy chime in with "And so will everybody else." He sucks. But so do the vast majority of ex fighters.

I think Roy is usually on point with his analysis but when he's wrong he's ridiculously wrong. And he's very stubborn and keeps digging himself into a hole instead of admitting he's wrong.

I miss the man in your avatar, he was my favorite commentator on HBO.

[Ray*]

I think it was pretty obvious who he wanted to win when listening to him on this fight, but I didn't really think he did too badly, he was out a bit though especially when Bradley was beginning to take over he thought that was it but then Provo came back and again rock Bradley badly. The fight was quite unpredictable to be honest so I wouldn't pay too much to him getting it wrong a bit.

[Scarcaztic]

Roy will never be as bad as Larry Merchant!

Larry Merchant isn't half bad. He gives you credit for duking it out, but he does start hating, when there's 2 slick boxers, and there's no action.

[#1Assassin]

Roy does this all the time and it pisses me off.

He will say "he hurt him bayyyyyyaddd" 10-15 times a fight on good shots that land square but don't even buckle the guys legs.

The other thing about Roy that drives me nuts is hearing him talk about how fighters are taking too much punishment or putting themselves in long term danger.

He's always getting all preachy about **** when he the bright shining example of what happens to guys who hang on too long.

there doesnt have to be blatant signs in order for a fighter to be hurt, certainly his legs dont have to buckle. someone who fought himself knows this and i generally think roy does a good job picking up on fighters being hurt based on more subtle things.

of course he makes mistakes just like the rest of us, in this fight he just happened to make more of them than usual. but to be fair provodnikov was buzzed a few times, its wasnt obvious but it was there and roy as usual was the only one to pick up on it.

roy the fighter has nothing to do with roy the commentator. when you fight you dont think about the long term damage you take, if you did you wouldnt be able to go in there and fight in the first place. i give credit to roy for being able to put that aside when commentating and making very valid points about the damage fighters take.

whenever he made a point about a fighter taking punishment hes been spot on. he certainly was last night, it was a war! roach wasnt thinking about stopping the fight for no reason. ppl need to voice their concerns about fighters health more often, these are real ppl with families. their health always comes first.

[_original_]

Roy had some money on Bradley obviously.

[Nekeneg]

I just watched the HBO broadcast and yeah Roy was pretty bad. He kept insisting that both fighters were hurt when only Bradley was staggering like a drunk and Provodnikov was on top of him. The thing that shocked me is when he said "Bradley is in a better position right now because this is the type of fight that he's used to" I was like WTF? Bradly had never been in a non stop brawl like that. Even Kellerman was on point when he said "Bradley has no answer for Provodnikov's overhand right" which was true but Roy insisted "yes he does, he has his own right hand" but that shot wasn't effective.
Very disappointed in Roy.

I LOL'ed when he said "yes he does" because literally 2 seconds later that same punch nailed Bradley and was hurt pretty bad. That shut him up, i think he was in the middle of explaining to Kellerman what Bradley can do to avoid the punch but I guess he stopped himself when tht punch landed lol

[Nekeneg]

He also said in round 10 or 11 that Ruslan can't hurt Bradley anymore and that Bradley is the one hurting Ruslan when clearly that is not the case at all. He kept saying ruslan is hurt bad as well but ruslan looked far from being hurt. He ****** last night, but Kellerman did a good job I thought. He put Roy in his place quite a few times.