Anyone else agree that Roy Jones always had a glass chin?

[turdleburgle]

[QUOTE=JAB5239;9042618]

NO, just because he fought at heavyweight doesn't make him a natural heavyweight. Was Jones a natural heavyweight when he fought Ruiz?
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If he always had a glass jaw he should have been stopped sooner, no?

he wasnt out of place as a heavyweight either and look at who was knocking him down.these heavyweights werent superheavyweights either ya know.


if he wasnt as great an athlete and had the reflexes that he had then he would have gotten stopped for sure.you can say he was past his prime when he was knocked out but lets not act like he was ancient and washed up against tarver and johnson.

[JAB5239]

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he wasnt out of place as a heavyweight either and look at who was knocking him down.these heavyweights werent superheavyweights either ya know.

I 37 fights at heavyweight he was outweighed in all but 8. In only 2 of those fights (both with Quarry) did he have a loss and a draw. In many of these fights the differential in weight would have been more than a division had they not been fighting at heavy. It is a FACT that Patterson moved up not because he had to, but because he wanted the glory and the money.

if he wasnt as great an athlete and had the reflexes that he had then he would have gotten stopped for sure.you can say he was past his prime when he was knocked out but lets not act like he was ancient and washed up against tarver and johnson.

Nah, he was just 35 and coming back down to 175. Ask Chris Byrd how that worked out for him.

[TBear]

In the end maybe but in his prime his chin was fine. Often when people aren't around during a fighters career and are only there for the tail end of it, they base their opinions on what they see. That's why it's good to pick the brains of long time fans. But I guess in a way thats what the TS is doing.