William Guthrie was garbage. A fat, coked up 35 year old Nunn punched him out of the ring without taking a shot.
We can all agree it was very odd how Jones moved from weight division to weight division never being THE Champion of any of them and avoiding the better fighters and most notably savage punchers that were available for him to fight. Jones whole career was nothing but carefully crafted with smoke and mirrors and threats or 'talks' as Loudon calls them of making big fights yet not a damn one of them happened. How is it possible that it was always the other person's fault when a fight couldn't be made when so many different Promoters and managers were involved. How is that possible that Jones couldn't come to a deal in just one of those fights :huh This is a guy after all that took time to write to his Trinket Sanctioning body and tell them his #1 contender wasn't worthy of fighting him. Usually when a fighter does such it is to make a fight not get out of one :rofl Jones will forever be known is the guy who had all the supposed talent in the world but was reluctant to prove it like so many ATG's before him did. Well for that and his Chin that seemed to shatter even by the air of punches. :rofl
James Toney in 94 was the biggest possible fight for Roy to make and his biggest challenge... Why didn't those talks break down? Toney had damn good power too... He knocked Michael Nunn silly at MW, and carried his power all the way up to HW, hurting HWs.
Roy was business first for sure.... But he was not afraid as Rico has been passionately preaching on here for years.
Rico just previously stuck his foot in his mouth with all the PED talk at this point who can't take him seriously
From an exposure point of view, Chris Eubank was the biggest fight for anyone. 500,000,000 viewers worldwide and 18,000,000 in the UK alone. 20,000+ tickets a fight sold at £75 ($125?) a head back in the early 90s. Everyone wanted Eubank. His response? Become mandatory contender if I don't hand-pick you!
However, Eubank claims that when the title runs and TV deals ended and he came back in '96, Roy Jones wouldn't agree to fight him.
Whats funny is that you seem to think that Eubank wanted to fight Jones. Perhaps you should read his auto-biography...