David Tua vs Roy Jones Jr (heavyweight 2003)

Tua is kind of a plodder which Jones might well exploit. However over a full fight I don't think RJJ can stay unbroken for the whole duration. Tua just needs one good crack in my opinion. Let's say I'd pick Jones over 4 rounds but the longer it goes on the more I think that glass chin gets blown to bits.

 

How good was Tua's chin? (I'm actually not sure, off the cuff.) If he can take a hard shot and keep coming Roy is probably screwed.

 

Very good chin, he'd take Jones best imo.

 

Yeah, that's why I find it kinda hard to imagine him getting Ruized.
(Tua, that is. Roy might very well get Ruized.)

 

RJJ wins every second of every round with his superior speed and athleticism until he gets caught at some point in the 2nd half of the fight and that's all she wrote.

 

You couldn't get Roy in the ring with Tua with an armed escort . Roy isn't that dumb,

 

Closest guesstimate would be the Tua Byrd fight ...

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Roy with his hardest hook FLUSH wouldn't even be able to make Tua blink.

This ain't John Ruiz here.

Tua was a relentless SAVAGE.

Roy goes to sleep in 4.

 

Tua knocks him out cold.

 

Jones.

He'd be 2 steps away from the Tuaman. And Tua does not have the footspeed to close the distance. Would help a ton if tua would commit to a sustained body attack against this opponent to slow those wheels down. but that left hook is only a head shot. And a strong straight jab while moving his feet would help a bunch also.

Dreary fight. Punchstat guys would be fortunate to hit double figures in a round. They'd resort to calling blocked punches as landed shots to inflate the numbers. The HBO love for Jones would be hard to take as well for this. If he wins a decision, they'd have it as maybe the best victory in the history of the sport.

 

Ya'll must have forgot Jones barely lost any rounds in his first 14 years as a pro.

Jones shutout, Tua wouldn't be able to hit be able to hit him with a handful of sand

Byrd was featherfisted and had more than enough to outhustle Tua. Jones powershots would be more than enough to get Tua's respect and Tua will be punching air all night anyway

 

Tua KO 6 after losing every round.

 

RJ could do it . like defusing A bomb

 

These are always quite complex questions to answer. If you 'd have asked me in 2003, after he beat Ruiz, had been knocked down once and had barely ever lost a round, I would have said Jones all day long. Post Tarver it would have been a suicide mission.