Explain the Ducking History of Great Fighters Part I: Roy Jones

Imperial, Rhino, et al:

Loudon posting a bunch of inane nonsense on the other thread and all of you agreeing with him doesn't refute my points. I made this thread specifically so that he can come here and lay all his points out in one place WITH EVIDENCE, not psychology on the inner workings of Roy's brain and bs about how he didn't duck Holyfield so how can he have ducked all these other guys. That thread was all over the place and people were repeating things right and left.

I've posted my positions. They're right there for you to take down all at once. Since you know stuff, you can take a crack at it yourself or stfu and wait for smart people to have a discussion while you listen.

 

The standout ducks in my mind are McClellan, Benn or Collins, Nunn or Rocchigiani, and DM. I don't think anyone can make a good case for not fighting all of those guys. It's not like Jones went and fought someone better instead.

HW I don't care about, I only list the other beltholders to show just how much of a pointless cherrypick it was to face the weakest guy who had one of Lennox Lewis's belts gifted to him. The Ruiz win was completely devoid of significance. Completely.

 

Why?

The belt rightly belonged to Lennox Lewis, and there were other, better heavyweight champs. He picked the weakest one who happened to hold an illegitimate title.

The most credit he gets for that is beating a guy who weighed 33lb more than he did. And if he gets huge credit for beating a terrible fighter just because he weighed more, than Floyd and Manny should be absolutely worshipped for fighting better fighters than Ruiz who have 15-20lb on them while weighing 150 (a bigger disadvantage than a 193lb guy giving up 33lb). I don't remember caring when Manny beat Margarito who had 17lb on him. Because Margarito was useless by then.

-Ruiz held a paper belt that didn't matter (he didn't win it from Lennox).
-Ruiz was a terrible fighter.
-There were MUCH better options.
-Spinks beat Holmes (22lb disadvantage), Fitzsimmons beat Corbett (17lb), Charles beat Louis (34lb), and tons of other LHW (and lighter) guys have won versions of the heavyweight title, usually against much better fighters than Ruiz. And that's not to mention the guys who tried and failed (because they actually fought quality heavyweights).