Was Roy Jones The Most Dominant Boxer Ever

RJJ is a candidate for GOAT in his prime

 

Could you clarify what you mean by dominant?

 

So the length of the run doesn't matter? Then maybe that 3 years or so of Terry McGovern is the answer. Unless you want film of every fight in the run to see how dominant they were. Then it might Mayweather? He did it for longer and only has 2 fights that could have not gone his way and he beat both of them clearly in the rematch. Although that might be more of a consistency thing than a dominance thing.

 

Sidenote but that McGovern run is nuts.

Noteworthy victories:
KO10 Tim Callahan
KO14 Austin Rice
KO12 Casper Leon
KO18 Patsy Haley
PTS25 Joe Bernstein
KO5 Sammy Kelly
KO10 Billy Barrett
KO3 Johnny Ritchie
KO1 current bantamweight champ Pedlar Palmer
KO1 Patsy Haley
KO2 Harry Forbes
KO8 current featherweight champ and legend George Dixon
KO3 Oscar Gardner
PTS6 George Dixon
KO3 Frank Erne (WTF?)
KO7 Joe Bernstein
KO2 Joe Gans*
KO4 Oscar Gardner

 

Close but it has to be Wlad.

 

With Roy, you'd have to bracket it from 97 to 2001 in order to skip the DQ to Griffin. He dominated everyone in that period with the possible exception of Harding, who was competitive until injuries got the best of him.

Mayweather was similarly dominant from 2009 to 2013 and fought better comp.

Tyson went 13-0 from Fraizer to Williams, but it was over four years.

Robinson probably had a streak at welter, but it wasn't filmed.

Donaire from 2007 to 2012 was as dominant as anyone.

 

I would he has a very strong argument for certain.

Infact if you at look when he won his first title against Hopkins, all the way up to the Ruiz fight which was 10 years apart. Jones probably lost only about 16 rounds in a decade that's absolutely insane.

There is a few other candidates though, Hagler was very dominant when he become champion he often won his fights very convincingly without losing many rounds. Duran outside of the De Jesus loss was very dominant at Lightweight. Tyson of course was very dominant during his reign also. Sugar Ray Robinson only had 1 loss in 130 fights so he was very dominant. Ricardo Lopez barely lost any rounds during his 50 or so fights undefeated, but he was fighting at Minimumweight and the opposition wasn't that strong to be fair.

 

Joe Louis could enter the competition. Over 14 years passed from his loss to Schmeling, then taking the title, to his loss to Charles.

And Julio Cesar Chavez

Of course RJJ remains in the competition:

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Yes, Jones has the visceral element only a few boxers have ever had. Maybe even more eye-catching than Foreman or Pacman. The only comparison that comes to mind in terms of what he could do at max capacity is Tyson, and even then--Tyson was a mastermind of a system, RJJ invented his own playbook. RJJ is the man, even if the Roycott was real and valid as well.

 

He had solid 10 year run - after first Peter fight - where noone came even close to challanging him.

Finito Lopez was also head and shoulders above anyone He met at strawweight until He met Rosendo Alvarez. Solid 8 year run of total dominance from winning a title to first challanging fight.

 

Certainly a case can be made outside of Griffin I and Harding he barley lost a single round from Hopkins to Ruiz/Tarver.

 

For a while he looked great, no one could touch him.