How good was RJJ at heavyweight?

From which he picked a plum. There's a reason he only stayed for a cup of coffee.

 

1) Wlad
2) Vitali
3) Lennox
4) Hasim
5) Holyfield
6) Moorer
7) Tua
8) Byrd
9) Williamson
10) McCall
11) Tyson
12) Golota
13) Brewster
14) Sanders
15) Briggs
16) McCline


There's probably more, but this is a big list.

I can see RJJ beating someone like Maskaev.

 

Roy picked a heavyweight he felt SAFE he could beat and then went out there and beat him. He did a good job.

 

How would a fight with Douglas have made any sense?

 

The worlds most generous list.

 

Exactly my point there's many who he could beat and many who could beat him.

It's not stupidity as the poster I quoted claimed because plenty have lost to worse than Jones so on a given night could feasibly lose to Jones himself.

 

Atleast do a tiny bit of research before quoting a reply please.

 

There were a lot of rumors about Tyson and Jones....but....nothing.

 

But how many top heavyweights lost to a fighter worse than Jones on their best day (since they're facing Jones on his day)?

It made enough sense for Jones to ditch his light-heavy titles with the intention of moving up to face him.

 

I personally felt at the time Jones wanted no "real" part of Tyson.

Just how I felt, maybe I was wrong and just read that into it but going on interviews I saw of him and the way he handled any of those type of questions that's what I felt.

Personally I think Tyson would of killed Jones.

 

Who don't you agree with?

Most of those guys are just too big for him.

Guys that are 6'3/6'4 are just much for him. Stylistic nightmare.

 

Not really, he hadn't unified 175 at that point.

 

He never did unify 175, not in any meaningful sense, and regardless of that, he did dump his belt with the intention of facing Buster Douglas before changing his mind, which led to all the shenanigans between the WBC and Rocchigiani.

 

He fought one fight in the division, a cunning and crafty theft of an alphabet title against someone not considered the best in the division. To me it was a token added to his resume. I never think of Roy as being a heavyweight...one fight doesn't do it for me.

 

Well there's a reason why he faced a very limited fraud in his only fight at the weightclass, and avoided fights with even moderate punchers....