Joe Calzaghe v Roy Jones Jnr 2002

You just tied yourself in a knot.. If Roy's belts at LHW were meaningless, then so was Joes!!!atsch

Look at the lineage.

Ring magazinge belt.. Jones-Tarver-Johnson-Tarver-Hopkins-Calzaghe:deal

As a matter of fact.. Jones held Calzaghe's ring LHW belt and the WBA HW title AT THE SAME TIME!!!

 

Joe clung onto a WBO title fighting considerably worse opposition than RJJ was. He's a Zsolt Erdei/Sven Ottke type more than he is a Jones, Toney, or Hopkins. He's definitely a class below in resume, power, and skills. He let go of boxing at the right time and was managed well before. He made a lot of money and hangs his hat on fighting B-Hop to a questionable decision, beating up old Roy Jones Jr. who was exceptionally shot and worse for wear than Calzaghe, and beating Kessler (who is good but no worldbeater himself). It's just a fact, when RJJ was popular and on top, Calzaghe was a protected domestic level fighter who wanted no part of Jones.

Jones KO early, late, middle? Any time he picks up the pace and decides to give Joe a hiding. Joe would try to match him with style and end up going out like Vinny Paz.

 

calzaghe would've been brutally stopped in the mid rounds. who was his best win...lacy? old man hopkins who put him on his ass? :rofl

 

You guys seriously think Jones would have beaten:


MW:

Benn
McClellan
Eubank

SMW:

Liles
Collins

LHW:

Calzaghe
Michalczewski

 

well these guys never even fought at JMW so you need to go back to school, read up and ask a different question first.

 

Force his hand how?? As shown in the link Calzaghe was considered and the possibility of Roy dropping down. I think it said Something to do with LHW belts wouldnt be at risk that way, so force a hand how with that comment atsch

I dont think it would have been a good idea for Calzaghe to drop a belt and lose money to face a fighter that Eubank, Benn, Collins to name a few, never got to fight. You talk of mandatories but when did Nunn get his shot as a mandatory??

Why should Calzaghe have moved anywhere when the fight was a possible at SMW and then LHW belts wouldnt be at risk

I think as DM was at LHW and Jones was also, it would have been better if they had of fought each other as they were in the same division at the same time and Calzaghe in a completely different weight class

 

Of course it would have been better. And it should have happened. The question was what Calzaghe might have done if he truly wanted the Jones fight. Back then, anyway.

Was it ever discussed? Was it a possibility? If so, any insight as to why it never happened B?

 

deal:deal

 

Joe was smart to stay in his WBO place.

Calzhage is that dog that stops barking soon as you open the gate

 

Lolz @ all these bitter Rojos searching for any crumb of redemption for their ´roided hero. :deadatsch

The fight did eventually go down. A shot, bloated, brittle-boned Calzaghe with Glass Hands gave Jones a frightful beating, lacerating his face and peppering his gormless bonce with crisp shot after crisp shot. :ko

As for who would have won in 2002, the proof is in the pudding, and that pudding is the film tape showing Calzaghe put on an absolute masterclass. That is not conjecture, that is not heresay. That is iron-clad, delicious irrefutable scientific fact.:deal

I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed Rico Spadafora pwning every single poster in this thread. It really does make for terrific reading.:rofl

 

the science of a shithead then.

 

Are you actually going to man up, roll up your sleeves, get into the trenches, in order to indulge in some stirring boxing chatter? Or shall you insist on continuing to sling witless insults willy-nilly like some lobotomised berk?:roflatsch

 

Only McClleleand and Eubanks gives. Jones so,e trouble and that it ..And joe would have never fought Roy at LHW in his prime !

 

Jones attack is the most dominant attack in sports history

Te closest kin would be fedor in his pride days
Or tyson in his

The difference is roy finished better than even them

Sometimes he would connect with his legendary left hook on a fully guarded guy and they would react as though they had been hit flush on the chin

I can't imagine how much power he had

But it doesn't stopthere

He had the audacity. To telegraph his straight right, hold it on front of the opponent for a second,with his hands down, and still connect flush to the face before they could get off

Insanity, never before and never since.... Not with that kind of power

Considering he was south paw traditionally, it's even better, I think it's safe to assume he was ambidextrous so both his hands were lethal

He could generate power with little to no windup, that in itself is mind blowing- the only other guy I ever saw do that was Bruce lee in his training videos

Roy's style was hated amongst the purest ( the same ******s who still claim he's overrated )
Because he refused to use his jab

The thing is, his jab was exceptional, but a jab is a range finder and a spacing tool, it's usually used as a set up... Roy's speed was such, that, he didnt need a jab to completely outhit someone

If roy really needed it, he had the jab aswell.

The other thing was, he allowed his opponents to walk him down, he literally would walk into ropes, this would be a death sentence for anyone else... For roy he was playing cat and mouse. Pretending to bethe mouse, his flurries of the ropes did as much damage as anything else.

His style still is being understood to this day.

I feel that after the toney fight, no one wanted to fight him, and he just didnt feel anyone in his weight class was worthy of him

Had he gone up against prime lewis he would lose, simply because they out weighed him by 50 pounds, but that would be the only real challenge to a prime roy

So he took the easier path... Which is a shame because he's the most talented boxer in boxing history

Normally an atg has a nemesis

Leonard had Duran
Mayweather had Castillo
Robinson had la motto
Tyson had anyone over 6ft 3 with a jab

Roy's era had two of the best middle weights of ll time

Hopkins and toney

Roy fought them at their best
And made it look like they were amateurs

Roy's biggest problem was that he was the best there ever was in the sport

 

oh the irony in that statement that you aren't able to see.

not gonna write drivel like you in this lifetime.