Who won this argument? :bbb And who ducked who? :think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJbOw_5DPiE http://youtu.be/UJbOw_5DPiE
Jones beat the crap out of Hopkins once, if Hopkins wanted Jones' title he should have to fight at 175. Jones would have kicked his arse again..........
Without watching, I recall Roy having more leverage with the 60/40 talk. I think RJJ would have beaten him had they fought then.
Hopkins could never neutralize speed so its lucky for him Jones never accepted a 50/50 fight when it mattered.
Jones offered a 50/50 split but Don King told Jones that he wanted 20% off the top. Jones talked about it on the best damn sports show period. "I said okay lets do 50/50 and Don King come telling me he wants 20% off the top. So he take 20% from me he will probably take 30% from Bernard and Don King will make all the money and he ain't fighting nobody." "So 60/40%, I beat him, he ain't never beat me, I left him the middleweight division. I left for him I was dominating that and I left it for him to dominate."
Hopkins avenged his loss to Roy. And you are seriously asking who ducked who? :roflatsch Jones is one of the most notorious duckers in Boxing history it is well documented.
Yeah Ok ,Hopkins wanted nothing to do with Jones when he was on top the minute Jones slowed down here comes Hopkins to the LHW division ..Hopkins is the reason the fight was never made when it made sense ..Actions speak louder than words !
What this video didn't show is that Nard also refused to fight Roy at LHW, saying he was too big, Roy would have had to drop to 168.. Asking for 60-40 was more than fair to Roy... Who was P4P king, and already beat Bernard with one hand. Also Hopkins moved up to LHW 4 years later to fight an even bigger Tarver, and after dominating Tarver, admitted he could have moved up 4 years earlier. It is clear Hopkins ducked Roy, He wanted nothing to do with LHW when Roy was prime, period... and lets be fair Rico, Hopkins is notoriously known for being hard to do business with..
Roy didn't want to fight for some reason not because he sensed that he could lose but hey, the guy comes to DC with almost every win by way of Kayo and he is the number 2 contender and from that fight on he keeps on doing short work of MWs and SMWs and LHWs with the exception of maybe James Toney and Mike McCallum, so he's thinking that the guy kept coming at me for 12 rounds in 93 and I hit him with every punch in the book so he remained undefeated ever since and won all the titles, hey... I am maybe gonna skip this guy.
RJJ was STUPID for not only 1) leaving HW when he could have easily picked his foes in the top 10-15 and beat them and 2) fighting Hopkins when he was way to slow to do ANYTHING Poor management if I ever saw it
