Bob Foster Vs Roy Jones at LHW..Will Foster just expose RJJ and destroy?

Foster would throw it, and he would be trying to move Jones with it. Jones excelled against guys that were afraid of him and let him do as he pleased; Foster would not. He would stick the jab on Jones for as long as the fight lasted.
here's the thing. Foster fights sideways. You aren't going to leap in and pot shot him with a right hand; he is behind his shoulder and will see it coming for miles. To land a left hook you would have to step around him, then, when you hook, you turn back into his left hook.
Hand speed is the single most overrated attribute in boxing; smart fighters will negate it. How will Jones handle the jab of Foster should be the question in your head. This is a guy that relied on reflexes- how will he handle being walked down behind the jab of a real good fighter? he folded against Johnson. He quit his dad rather than learn and master fundamentals. he is weak mentally and in his chin and Foster stops him.

 

If that's the only thing he'd be trying, besides useless attempts to counter Jones with his slow hooks, then he's losing on points by wide margin. Like I said, his jab would be missing the target most of the time. Just as it was missing for every other Jones' opponent.

Watch the Dick Tiger fight again. Short-armed, old, slow blown-up middleweight was catching Foster with leaping hooks for 3.5 rounds, with Foster being unable to counter him with any clean punches. Jones would have 5 times as much success, and unlike Tiger he wouldn't stand up flat-footed and try to just slug with Foster, to be caught.

Again, Foster couldn't negate it for old, slow Dick Tiger. Who was probably the smartest (sounds funny when applied to Tiger) fighter Foster ever beat, and who didn't have fast hands at all.

Johnson was walking to him behind a jab? I'm pretty sure you never watched the fight.

 

Roy would dominate.

 

People on this forum kill me with their nonsense. "When Foster lands the left hook..." atsch I think we all know whose left hook is going to land first and Foster isn't going to be able to take it.

 

Jones would crush Foster.
Power equal (but probably in favor of Jones, imo), what did Foster have over him? Slower, worse at every punch, from every angle, worse defensively, worse on his feet, worse coming in, going out, on the outside, on the inside. Bob Foster is worse than Roy Jones in every conceivable way. That isn't a shame, I rate Jones very highly, obviously.

Shot Jones would be stopped, obviously, but prime for prime, Jones TKOs Foster mid to late.
Bob may land something big, I just don't see it happening.

 

If anyone didn't have a Plan B in a fight it was Jones.

 

Does Jones get to come in roided up? Either way Foster decapitates him.

Some of the arguments on here for Jones are ridiculous. People are acting like he was Mike Tyson. Who were these light heavies that Jones just bombed out to show he was a power puncher? At light heavy Jones was taken the distance or late far more often than not and thats against the absolute **** competition he faced.

Others on here are pointing to Fosters damn near murder of an aging yet iron chinned champion Dick Tiger to show that Foster somehow wasnt an effective fighter/finisher (bizarre argument). Why not look at Jones going the distance with Mike McCallum (who was on life support at the time) as a better comparison to what these guys did against aging fighters?

The only light heavyweight who went the distance with a prime Foster was Ray Anderson and thats because he literally ran for 15 rounds in a performance so disgraceful by its cowardice that Yank Durham, who worked with him for the fight, berated him to his face in front of reporters after the press conference.

Jones may have had superior reflexes but you deal with greater speed by using your jab and Foster had one of the best jabs in the divisions history. If you got past that jab you had to worry about sledgehammer powerpunches from both hands and something tells me Jones' fine china whiskers dont stand up to well against that kind of artillery.

 

Fine post!:good

 

Damn near murder which took him 11 full minutes to actually land a good punch, and was getting hit with leaping hooks without being able to counter them or to protect himself properly. This just goes to show he wasn't that accurate and didn't have the timing to deal with men who knew a little bit about boxing, even if they were old and slow. To call Jones' opposition absolute **** means to call Foster's *beaten* opposition non-existing at all.

 

What's the point of moving up in weight, if you get an ass-whupping pretty much every time, even against rather mediocre fighters?

 

Bull****. Plan B was in evidence in the first Griffin fight.

 

Yes, let's praise fighters for looking like **** when they move several pounds up from their natural division. One of the worst examples when a terrible puncher looked like he couldn't break an egg stepping 1 division up.