Comments Thread For: Roy Jones: Mayweather is TBE? Never Came Close To What I Did!

[Scipio2009]

How come most fighters disagree with Mayweather being TBE? Duran, SRL, Tyson, RJJ etc...yet they revere and talk about Ali and SRR as among the best? The only people who back up Mayweather's TBE claim are mostly his fans. For me, you need to be respected and admired by your peers, just like in the academic world, you earn respect by fellow professors not laymen. Mayweather was great, but far from the TBE.

Folks diss Floyd because he did things his own way. Say what you want, Floyd was basically on the p4p top 10 for 20 years, and would likely still be p4p #1 if he were still fighting today (only welterweight I see beating Floyd is Spence Jr, with Thurman, Garcia, Porter making things interesting due to styles/youth).

Hate if you want.

Order them however you want, Joe Louis, Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, and Floyd Mayweather are on boxing's Mt Rushmore.

[Scipio2009]

Roy fought too long, full stop

Beat John Ruiz, beat Antonio Tarver, and then walk (maybe fight a cruiserweight champion, just to say you did it).

The resume wasn't the greatest, but Roy would've left with one avenged defeat, and championships at 160, 168, lineal champ at 175, a heavyweight title, and a cruiserweight title.

[MEXfistology]

Of course Floyd never came close to do what you did , Floyd never got embarrasly knocked out in a ring

[Cheek busting]

Does Roy Jones hold the record for being sparked out in the most continents?

Let's see: North America, Europe/Asia (Russia), and Australia?

Damn that's pretty hard to top..

[megas30]

Jone was never better than Floyd. Roy relied on athleticism and as soon as he aged, his lack of fundamentals started showing. Dude couldn't move his head to slip a punch to save his life. Jones relied on his reflex and legs. Floyd had a way higher boxing IQ which was grounded on fundamentals. I agree, though, that Roy was more entertaining prime for prime.

[Fabes88]

The problem is that Roy really damaged his legacy by fighting too long.

This is the exact problem. The green eyed monster got the better of him. He saw what bhop achieved in his final years and I think that’s partly why he’s fought on for so long

[elfag]

Floyd's resume is better.

Jones has a long period between Toney and Ruiz of fighting nobodies.

Floyd has a consistent record of 18 years fighting top level champions.

[elfag]

Jone was never better than Floyd. Roy relied on athleticism and as soon as he aged, his lack of fundamentals started showing. Dude couldn't move his head to slip a punch to save his life. Jones relied on his reflex and legs. Floyd had a way higher boxing IQ which was grounded on fundamentals. I agree, though, that Roy was more entertaining prime for prime.

Jones was also pretty poor on the inside or against the ropes, Floyd was more well rounded and good at any distance and going forward, backwards, sideways.

[P4Pdunny]

roy shoulda got out the game a lot earlier

[KillaCamNZ]

I'm certainly in the camp of what you do later on, does not change your peak.

RJJ could lose 10 in a row, and it cannot re-write what he has already achieved.