Roy Jones fought trash opposition

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  1. Eggman

    Eggman "The cream of the crop! Nobody does it better! Full Member

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    He beat 2x heavyweight champ John Ruiz! The quiet man with the most underrated resume
     
  2. Nonito Smoak

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    Green or not, 28 or 38, Roy's win over Hopkins is almost certainly his greatest.

    P4P #1's will never fight enough times to please everyone.
     
  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Every other boxer? I think we can safely say Robinson, Leonard and Ali have far bertter resumes than Jones despite the mandatories they also fought.
     
  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Hopkins wasn`t rated by the ring magazine top 10 P4P in ``93.
     
  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Ruiz was a low level champ.
     
  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    No way could Mercado floor B-hop later in his career, he became a defensive master.
     
  7. Nonito Smoak

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    What you are responding to was in reference to the career totality of Roy, as that is what this thread is about.
     
  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    He didn`t the same way, he became a safety first fighter and far harder to hit everybody knows that, he became the classic spoiler.
     
  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    He changed his style, he became very hard to hit.
     
  10. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    B-hop developed these skills:
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  11. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Griffin cause Jones a lot of problems in their first bout.
     
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  12. Loudon

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    EVERY other boxer.

    Yes, they have better resumes.

    Who’s said otherwise?
     
  13. titanic

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    Just to answer the thread directly, Yes RJJ fought quality opponents as follows ;

    B. Hopkins
    A. Tarver
    D. Green
    G. Johnson
    D. Lebedev
    J. Calzage
    E. Maccarinelli
    V. Philipps

    Unfortunately lost to all of them...
     
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    Yeah but he was still a bit green though, honestly. It would be a few years still before he was that top level killer.
     
  15. Forza

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    Roy was an HBO creation
     
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