Roy Jomes Jr vs Dariusz Michalzewski: A fight that the fans never get to see.

[Thraxox]

I always were fascinated on who is fighting, and who is fighting the best of the best. At one point Roy Jones was the best Light Heavyweight in the World. And at this point Dariusz unified the WBO, WBA, IBF and Lineal Light Heavyweight champion ship, and a fight between Jones was inevitable but somehow never materializes.

[Unknown Champ]

Roy Jomes is king of the ring

[Thraxox]

Roy Jomes is king of the ring

Dude, you know that was just a miss spell.

[Unknown Champ]

I know....being a pr1ck....my bad zogg

[Kigali]

I always were fascinated on who is fighting, and who is fighting the best of the best. At one point Roy Jones was the best Light Heavyweight in the World. And at this point Dariusz unified the WBO, WBA, IBF and Lineal Light Heavyweight champion ship, and a fight between Jones was inevitable but somehow never materializes.

What fans?

NOBODY knew or cared about something named Michalzewski.

[richardt]

I followed the situation over the years to the tee.

Little known facts:

1. Murad Muhammad went to Germany to negotiate a fight in Germany between the two and DM's promoter and Universum head Klaus Peter Kohl wanted to pay DM double what they were offering Jones. Jones was being offered the usual 5Mill he normally makes, DM was to get either 8Mill or 10Mill. Not a fair deal for the PFP best fighter on the planet against a guy who is one of the best in just a division.

2. DM was scheduled to fight Telesco on ESPN to build his brand in the US and Marty Mulcahy even showed the scheduling of the fight on his fight schedule on fight news dot com. DM pulled out because there was not enough money. This was during the time when Telesco was on a major streak. DM didnt believe in losing money to make bigger money.

3. DM was offered a co main event on HBO but declined indicating that he would not fight on a Jones undercard which was not the cause because he would have been a co-main event, even if he wasnt the last fight to be showed.

4. Klaus Peter Kohl was often unavailable for phone calls, this fact was documented through research by fight news dot com.

An article:


In 2001, Roy's advisor Brad Jacobs, met with Kerry Davis VP for HBO, and they tried desperately to make the fight.

Peter Kohl who was DM's advisor was never available to sit down and discuss terms. He was also never available via phone, and he wouldn't even name a figure to get the ball rolling.

HBO also proposed the idea of a double header to hype the fight. A lot of U.S. fans had hardly seen DM fight, so HBO wanted to put both fighters on the same bill, to stir interest in a fight.

This was turned down by Kohl.

If DM and Kohl had been been serious about a fight, they never would have turned down that opportunity.

Murad Muhammad gave an interview in 2003, and he said that DM was asking for a $6M purse, and he was making between $1-1.5M per fight in Germany.

According to a recent interview with Roy from last June, HBO actually offered him DM $5M, and he turned it down.

All you have to do, is go and look at DM's resume, to see how serious he was about fighting the likes of Roy, Tarver and Harding etc. He never left his comfort zone in Germany. He was happy defending his WBO belt for decent money against C class fighters, some of which had already been beaten easily by Roy.

If DM and Kohl had wanted Roy bad enough, they'd have agreed to the double header, which was a great idea, and then afterwards they'd have fought Roy.

They turned down $5M for Roy, to fight Joey De Grandis for $1-1.5M.

DM was all talk. His resume tells you what his intentions were. The best fighter in the world shouldn't have had to have gone to Germany in 2001 and certainly not for less pay than DM.

End of thread.

[Hatesrats]

Jones by KO... Why??

B-cause doe