Bigger Wins: Two Wins of Tarver (over Jones) or Two Wins of Taylor (over Hopkins)?

Jones was not a shot fighter for Tarver. The fact he can keep winning impressively now proves that.

 

I would say Taylor's considering how green he was going into those fights .

 

That's a tough one for me but I'm leaning towards JT's wins, just because on record JT has two wins(even though they were REAL close decisions) over B-hop who after those fights went on to become Light Heavyweight champion by beating Tarver himself, beating Winky and whooping Pavlik.

 

Hopkins beat Taylor first time out in my opinion, so I can't credit Taylor with two wins.

However, I still think his win in the second fight on its own beats Tarver's two wins over Jones.

Sure, Tarver's first win over Jones was HUGE at the time, but the truth is that Roy was shot to pieces, as Johnson proved later.

Taylor decisioned a past-prime but still excellent version of Hopkins. That beats defeating the corpse of Roy Jones.

 

Tarver's two wins were more decisive and more important to his career.

Those two victories actually were his entire career...he has made a living off of these two fights. He also did the unthinkable...he got into jones's head. Jones was considered an unbeatable fighter and had that aura of invincibility. Tarver believed he could beat him and no one gave him a chance.