Would Gennady Golovkin and Marvin Hagler be food for Roy Jones ?

Roy Jones is too fast for them

 

The speed

 

The speed is the main thing with Roy, hes just too fast for like 99.99 percent of boxers to live

 

i think roy would comfortably out point both of them and land some big shots but both guys are great boxers and great punchers so they would show some good skills too but roy would double triple up that left hand

 

Anybody thinking Jones has it easy here has been huffing paint thinners.

 

I grew up watching Hagler, and no way is Jones having it easy against that fella.
Nor GGG.

 

I think GGG would be too hittable and not fast enough to keep up with Roy. Hagler would fair better because of his better overall skillset and versatility but I reckon Roy would be too fast for him aswell

 

I think he probably ought to dominate Golovkin more often than not. Just a higher calibre of fighter and with most of the necessary tools needed imo. The speed gap alone is a big obstacle for Golovkin to hook his leg over even before you take into account other advantages in things like timing, punch selection, layers of nuance in both defence and attack, infighting etc. Roy is probably the puncher of the two as well, the main area where Golovkin usually had the advantage. Chin is the only notable area where he was better.

Jones though tended to be fairly risk averse against the better fighters he fought. Hopkins, McCallum, Toney etc. More often a focus on shutting them down rather than uncorking his full arsenal round after round. So in that sense I could see Golovkin nicking some rounds or making them closer than they'd need to be on work rate alone and the consistency of the jab if Jones was constantly on the slow retreat and not pushing Golovkin onto the back foot where he was far less capable of getting good punches off and not a danger in a slip/counter sense.

Hagler is harder to say, there are a lot of knarly areas with that fight. A same day weigh in might mean that the only point in his career where Jones might make the weight is when he was really inexperienced, and coupling that with the possibility of being weight drained might be disastrous. On the other hand, allowing Jones a day to rehydrate and and thus take advantage of his size brings up the unknown of pitting a same day, average sized middleweight against a modern weight cheating giant. You'd have to imagine that being an uphill task for Hagler considering Jones' abilities.

Hagler has everything required to do well though. Given the evidence you'd think that Jones would probably be overly cautious against such formidable, well-rounded technician and physical machine, but Hagler always has the millstone round his neck of occasionally dubious ring generalship in big fights, and Jones was just the type of the fighter to make an opponent hesitate or overthink things. The more natural ring general of the two on top of the speed and size advantage despite Hagler being the more complete fighter seasoned against a wider range of very good fighters. A hard fight to work out imo, I could see quite a range of outcomes, but it's easy to see why someone would back Jones

 

Not necessarily.

Either of them might chin check him.

 

Roy was still green-ish for most of his mw run. His performances vs. Castro & a similarly green-ish Hopkins were solid but not scintillating IMO.

Maybe he has enough raw talent to get by G, but I don't think he proved or impressed nearly enough @ that weight to be favored over Hagler.

 

Anyone who thinks Usyk has it easy vs Tua and Galento has been huffing paint thinners

 

I feel attacked ...

 

Hagler beats him in a very competitive matchup and Roy just eats the overrated plodder that Golovkin is

 

You think bad thoughts about Usyk having an easy time with Galento and Tua