On this day 15 years ago Danny Green destroys Roy Jones Jnr in 122 seconds.

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  1. KO_King

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    True he was a bad loser in defeat here. As he was after Tarver 3, if I remember correctly.
    Doesn't mean he wasn't shot to bits though.
     
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  2. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Yep guys like Green fought all over the world as a pro he went to the US a few times, he beat Eric Lucas in Canada and fought Beyer twice in Germany that is what warriors do they don't just stay in the comfort of their home country all the time.
     
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  3. Serge

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    I've always found Roy very personable and likable so him accusing Green of cheating and Tarver of being on steroids was disappointing. It's really hard to dislike Roy even though he has an ago the size of the universe, is a sexual deviant, and a blood sports enthusiast.

    He might have been on the slide here but, as said, I think Green discombobulatizes any version of him. Lucky the ref can to his rescue to save him from taking another long snooze in the canvas
     
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  4. Serge

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    Yep

    The most impressive thing for me about Green's 122 second demolition of Roy is, and with you being an Aussie yourself I'm sure you can verify this, Australia only had like 3-4 active pros at the time and I know for a fact you guys didn't take the sport remotely seriously back then
     
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  5. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Yeah pretty much at the time Mundine and Green were carrying Aussie boxing but I remember Will Tomlinson causing an upset on the under card destroying one of Roy's guys in a few rounds.
     
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  6. MidniteProwler

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    Roy seems like a good bloke he just had a hard time coming to the reality in the manner in which Green destroyed him. He probably thought Green was another Aussie scrub like Glenn Kelly. With Tarver he may have a point as Tarver was caught juicing not long after he came to Australia and beat Green. No way Tarver would have beaten Green on a level playing field.
     
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  7. Serge

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    Damn! Roy and one of his boys on the undercard got knocked out up at Aussie Level on that day.
     
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  8. shadow111

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  9. Serge

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    Yeah, I suspect you're right about him thinking Green was another Glenn Kelly albeit to be fair at least Roy has a victory over a Glenn albeit not the grandpa one who sparked him out cold with an innocuous love tap

    No, I meant more the irony of Roy accusing Tarver of being on steroids when Roy himself used to live off the stuff

    100% Tarver would've been on the juice when he fought Green
     
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  10. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Found it
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  11. shadow111

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    Hopkins was essentially proven right with everything he said about RJJ heading into the rematch. He said it was a bad stoppage, and while Green was all over Roy, Roy was intelligently covering up and didn't appear to be in any serious trouble. The way RJJ went down was worrying but Roy got up and looked to be completely fine, the ref stopped the match based on a Green throwing an overwhelming amount of punches to RJJ as he was covering up, not because any major devasating shots were landing.

    It's possible that had it been allowed to conitnue, Roy would have gotten through the round and then gotten back in the fight. RJJ's jab looked really crisp early on before he was dropped. On the other hand, maybe RJJ doesn't recover and it gets ugly had it been allowed to continue. Still I think it's certainly arguable that it was a premature stoppage.

    Hopkins also was proven right by not giving into the idea that RJJ was shot at that point, he said he expected the "best" Roy Jones and he got the best RJJ. RJJ proved he still had a lot more left in the tank than most fans thought against Hopkins in that rematch, Hopkins struggled mightily, was dropped 3 times by RJJ, and RJJ really proved a lot of his doubters wrong by how he performed against Hopkins in that rematch. He didn't get the decision, but he did fight very competitively against Hopkins in a very back and forth dramatic match.

    So with the benefit of hindsight, given how well RJJ performend against Hopkins after the Green loss, I think it's fair to say that it was a premature stoppage, that it was a stoppage out of caution. But maybe it was a good stoppage so Roy didn't take any unncessary punishment which allowed him to recover quickly and perform so well against Hopkins.
     
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  12. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Yep that is why now that I am better educated on the sport than when I first started posting here I believe a lot of the top guys from yesteryear were mainly smoke and mirrors as at one time or another were caught juicing like, Roy Jones, Tarver, James Toney, Shane Mosely, Fernando Vargas, Evander Holyfield even Mayweather with the illegal IV is very suspicious. People can say what they like about the likes of Green and Mundine but at the end of the day they were both clean honest pro's.
     
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  13. Serge

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    Thanks

    What a right hand. Boomshakalak!

    Damn he went down like Roy against Glenn Johnson and he even did the famous Roy bandy-legged wobble when he got back too.

    Only a matter of a few years if that before Australia is the #1 boxing nation in the world beginning with the letter A
     
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  14. Serge

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    Yeah, lab creations we call them and every gym in the US was a laboratory. I could not live with myself nor look at myself in the mirror if I had to resort to jacking myself with PEDs to help me win

    I've been saying this for close to a decade

     
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  15. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Yeah agree a lot of the top US guys were cheats that would never leave home and when they did they got their ass kicked like Roy and Jeff Lacy against Calzaghe. Yeah Mundine had the same style as Roy very fast great athlete with excellent reflexes and fast hands. Mundine prided himself on living a clean life he has never touched alcohol or smoked and when he had his hip surgery he even refused pain medication.
     
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