Comments Thread For: Roy Jones Jr: Five Wins After They Said I Should Quit!

[Boxing Goat]

Keep fighting Roid, we love watching you get punished for ducking Steve Collins, Nigel Benn, Gerald McLellan, Dariusz Michaelczewski and the entire Cruiserweight Division. I just hope that when you finally get put down for real it's in a country where they have decent brain surgeons on deck.

Back up and show some respect to the ATG fighter of the decade RJJ.

Roy would put you in a coma with the wind off of his left hook.

[SeekDaGreat]

Five cans later, here we are.

[richardt]

Keep fighting Roid, we love watching you get punished for ducking Steve Collins, Nigel Benn, Gerald McLellan, Dariusz Michaelczewski and the entire Cruiserweight Division. I just hope that when you finally get put down for real it's in a country where they have decent brain surgeons on deck.

You obviously did not follow the sport back then. First off, DM was scheduled to fight Telesco on ESPN in the USA as a build up to fighting Jones. DM declined the Telesco fight because there was not enough money. He also declined several mill to fight on an HBO card with Jones as a buildup for a Jones fight because he didn't want to be on some undercard but the fact is, it would have been a co-feature against a contender, and the fact is, he was making between $1-1.5M per fight in Germany. HBO offered DM $5M, and he turned it down. Murad even went to Germany to negotiate a fight through Peter Kohl. So stop with the crap about Jones ducking unless you are willing to concede that DM was ducking.

Benn priced himself out of a fight with Jones later in his career when he asked for $10m. He'd lost his passion for the sport after McClellan and wanted a payday. Not every fighter faces every fighter and not every fighter ducks just because certain fights don't get made. And for you to wish that a man suffers a brain injury shows that you are ***ed up in the head. Get some mental help.

[Cinci Champ]

oam i the only one that really likes when roy jones does the fights on hbo? everyone gives paulie credit on showtime which is deserved but i think roy just knows the sport as good as anyone.

[Boxing Goat]

oam i the only one that really likes when roy jones does the fights on hbo? everyone gives paulie credit on showtime which is deserved but i think roy just knows the sport as good as anyone.

No, aside from the occasional anti-vernacular fumble Roy is a top grade commentator. He is now a staple at HBO and like Merchant he would be sorely missed if he were to leave.

[bojangles1987]

One of these days he's gonna run out of fry cooks and dog catchers to fight.

Boxing never runs out of fry cooks and dog catchers. If Roy's happy beating their asses, keep on, champ. Just don't throw him in the ring with someone who's actually good.

[bojangles1987]

oam i the only one that really likes when roy jones does the fights on hbo? everyone gives paulie credit on showtime which is deserved but i think roy just knows the sport as good as anyone.

Roy has his biases, same as anyone else, but he absolutely knows the sport. He just has to buy into HBO's hype machine when necessary. I like him on commentary.

[theface07]

Roy is truly fooling himself if he thinks continuing to fight bums in Russia will have a positive effect on his legacy. I guess he sees Bernard out there winning title fights and figures he can still fight on a high level too. The only problem is, the last time he tried to fight on that level he was KO'd. The minute Roy steps up, if that even happens, his retirement will be completely validated. Love ya Roy but it's time to get behind the mic and not inside the ring, permanently.

[Boxing Goat]

Roy is truly fooling himself if he thinks continuing to fight bums in Russia will have a positive effect on his legacy. I guess he sees Bernard out there winning title fights and figures he can still fight on a high level too. The only problem is, the last time he tried to fight on that level he was KO'd. The minute Roy steps up, if that even happens, his retirement will be completely validated. Love ya Roy but it's time to get behind the mic and not inside the ring, permanently.

Nobody in boxing worth their salt cares what Roy has done over the last 9-10 years. His legacy was set when he captured a heavyweight title. No way to really enhance it now aside from winning a cruiser title and certainly no way to ruin it either.

[richardt]

Roy doesn't understand that people are not saying he cannot win a fight, they are saying he cannot win at the highest levels which is true because he is done, past his prime for a long time now. And he has taken too much punishment to even make winning some small trinket worth the physical abuse. The show is over and the curtains came down many years ago.