Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather vs. Roy Jones - CompuBox Head To Head Stats

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

In the lead up to his farewell fight tonight, former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. compared his skills to those of five division world champion Floyd Mayweather and said he, Jones, was the more accomplished fighter. In an effort to compare the two future Hall of Famers from a statistical stand point, CompuBox crunched data from the primes of both fighters (Jones from 1994 through 2002 - 19 fights and Mayweather from 1998 through 2007 - 22 fights) and compiled the following report.
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[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Who cares??????������
Compubox is pointless

[Realizniguhnit]

Who cares??????������
Compubox is pointless

WTF you mean who cares fool? RJJ said nobody came close to him but this proves that Men lie, Women lie... NUMBERS DON'T!!!!!!

[SteveM]

Compubox is kind of good for gauging the level of competition that a fighter has fought. But even then there are nuances it doesn't and can't catch like how shop-worn/aged a fighter becomes because not all fighters deteriorate at the same level. Similarly 2 prospects can build a 14-0 record and one is improving with every fight and the other is just waiting for his first loss as soon as he is stepped up.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

WTF you mean who cares fool? RJJ said nobody came close to him but this proves that Men lie, Women lie... NUMBERS DON'T!!!!!!

Conpubox is a load of little socially repressed weirdos like yourself pressing buttons. There statistics are not proven accurate whatsoever.
Now chant for your master...
HARD WORK!!!!!
DEDIC......

[Bronx2245]

Mayweather Measures Up With Greats

May 3, 2012:

More impressive than Mayweather's own connect percentage is that of Floyd's opponents against him. They land a mere 16 percent of punches thrown, the lowest collective figure recorded in CompuBox's 4,000-fight database.

While most of boxing's cognoscenti debate who should be crowned pound-for-pound king, few would question Mayweather's dominance as the era's best defensive fighter. That's an important distinction. Because although all fighters hit as often as they're physically able, the best boxers connect often and avoid being hit too frequently.


Greatest of all time?

Statistically speaking, Mayweather clearly reigns supreme over his contemporaries. But he also stacks up very well against history's pugilistic pantheon.

CompuBox stats suggest Mayweather sits high atop a pile of fighters whose numbers were measured during their designated primes, tabulated using ringside figures and fight films. In a plus/minus comparison, greats such as Marvin Hagler (plus-17 percent) and Sugar Ray Leonard (plus-13 percent) don't come close. Roberto Duran (plus-8 percent), Thomas Hearns (plus-6 percent) and Muhammad Ali (plus-4 percent) fall short, too.

Only heavyweight great Joe Louis, at plus-26 percent, approached Mayweather's peak. And the one area, at least for this particular analysis, in which Mayweather had competition was connect percentage, where Louis and fellow former heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis edged him by 2 percent.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-boxing-greats

[Realizniguhnit]

Conpubox is a load of little socially repressed weirdos like yourself pressing buttons. There statistics are not proven accurate whatsoever.
Now chant for your master...
HARD WORK!!!!!
DEDIC......

Even If Compubox was off which wouldn't be by much and it's clear that both of their stats in their prime are very similar either which way you want to slice it silly guy...

[Robbie Barrett]

WTF you mean who cares fool? RJJ said nobody came close to him but this proves that Men lie, Women lie... NUMBERS DON'T!!!!!!

The numbers are counted by men. Compubox is useless.

[HarvardBlue]

Roy Jones was a much more exciting fighter than Mayweather. There's no debate about that. His performance against Toney was the best I've seen against a guy that was supposed to be tough for him. As far as who is the better fighter I still favor Mayweather because he did it for much longer against better competition. Roy had one or two decent wins after the second Tarver loss but he was in steady decline. Mayweather declined also, but he was still good enough to beat much better opposition than Roy kept losing to.

[RememberTUA?]

Prime Roy Jones= best ever