Why was tarvers style so difficult for jones?

[MRBOOMER]

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It wasn't Tarver's style.
Roy was off his prime. He lost way too much weight too fast and never recovered physically.

Ppl have very short term memory and think Pacquiao and Mayweather are the greatest **** since slice bread.

How is it not his style?

Also wtf does pacquiao and mayweather have to do with this? Normally I like your post but this was just stupid...

He struggled with Harding I'm sure at point he would struggled with tarver prime or not.

[sdcluser]

Tarver got the better roids in.

Roid or not. Prime RJJ would still kick his arse.

[bojangles1987]

The move down robbed him of the reflexes to handle a tall southpaw like he was once able to.

[Derranged]

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It wasn't Tarver's style.
Roy was off his prime. He lost way too much weight too fast and never recovered physically.

Precisely. Anyone who says different either hates Jones (there are many) or is just in denial. And Jones beat him the first time, that fight was no robbery at all.

What's hilarious is that Tarver kept saying that the weight loss had nothing to do with Jones losing. Then the same exact thing happened to Tarver: He gained all that weight for the Rocky Movie, lost it quickly, then was totally shot against Hopkins. Good, serves him right. Tarver is a cry baby and drama queen. I wish Jones fought him before he fought Ruiz.

[Danieltapia]

Jones was shot as soon as he tried to make 175 again. If he fought Tarver back when Eric Harding was beating up Tarver, it would have been a mis-match. Matter of fact, Jones outclassed Harding right after Harding dominated Tarver.

[Cardinal Buck]

In short, Lou Del Valle knocked Jones down with a shot like the one Tarver put Jones out with. The difference is Tarver could throw that shot a whole lot better than Del Valle. Also, Tarver was a pretty good technical fighter and hard to beat in a slow paced fight, which was more or less the pace at which Jones fought.

[joe strong]

it wasn't because roy jones should have never went up to 200lbs to fight ruiz. after he did that & moved back down he just couldn't react to the quicker punches at the lower weight class. if he never fought ruiz i think his career goes down a different path & he may have beat tarver both times. chris byrd tried to move down & he got crush by fridge LHW contender george. losing the weight doesn't mean you will have a LHW's reaction time. he should have rematched toney at CW after toney\jirov...

[IMDAZED]

Tall, lanky hard hitting southpaw with a good chin. And most important, was patient and could counterpunch. Jones was at his best when the other fighter was the aggressor.