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Roy Jones...Not the smartest man alive..
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george foreman was the best imo ... great insight n tactical breakdown.. i also like malignaggi...jones is mehh .. lennox ******... i wanna see some mike tyson for the historic view
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Originally posted by Sam Donald View Postgeorge foreman was the best imo ... great insight n tactical breakdown.. i also like malignaggi...jones is mehh .. lennox ******... i wanna see some mike tyson for the historic view
For example, when he was stressing how Danny Garcia was catching & punching with Matthyysse, a power puncher...explaining how that is not something that is easy to do.
He picks up on things that the other commentators don't usually pick up on. The only time I can recall seeing him be somewhat biased was during the Khan-Collazo fight. That is pretty understandable, though, because Collazo is a good friend of his. I remember seeing them hanging out in NY.
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C'mon give the man a break. Roy Jones is a career boxer who probably didn't even finished High school. That's how he has earned his living. He was never some Harvard law school college professor who had been known for being a wordsmith. Therefore, his limited grasp of proper grammatically speaking English could be somewhat expected.
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Originally posted by Boxer1590 View PostPerhaps I'm just bitter because Roy Jones was very rude to me when I had the chance to meet him a few years back. But...
I just got around to watching the Luis Rosa-Luis Del Valle fight from this past weekend.
Roy Jones was calling the fight, and was going on & on describing how Del Valle was able to absorb lots of punishment & always come back fighting hard in his fight against Darchinyan. He would explain how he expected nothing less from Del Valle in this fight, because he proved to be "resigerent" ....? He made up his own word. The word he was looking for: resilient ...
My goodness. This reminded me of when he didn't know the different between compassion & passion during the Pacquiao-Bradley broadcast...Jim Lampley had to explain the difference to him the same way I would have to explain the difference to my niece that is in third grade.
I respect Roy Jones as a boxer, and look at his ring accomplishments with profound admiration, but I'm really not impressed with his work as an announcer. He never really says anything very insightful, and constantly displays an immense lack of vocabulary. Obviously, I wouldn't necessarily expect much sophistication coming from him, because he is there for his boxing insight, but he fails to impress me in that regard as well. I'm much more impressed with Paulie Malignaggi's work as an announcer. I would even say that Andre Ward does a much better job than him.
Roy isn't as bad as Lennox Lewis was (my goodness), but he is pretty bad...
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