Prime rj vs prime joe calzaghe 168 pounds

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  1. BadJuju83

    BadJuju83 Bolivian Full Member

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    It's a Boxing question I asked. :blood


    Dont know if you've got me mixed up with someone else else but since when was 'Bud' a term for animosity?


    If you dont want to answer then dont answer, thats your choice. Dont accuse me of being hostile when im not.
     
  2. mariancobretti

    mariancobretti Well-Known Member Full Member

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    lol Reggie Johnson at Steve collins...Jones toyed with him.

    I think calzaghe fans make too much of his win with Lacy and Kessler.

    If Jones beat those guys people would say Jones was handpicking those guys.

    shows u the level Calzaghe was fighting at.
     
  3. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    I've stuck with Roy UD this long, no sense changing it up now.
     
  4. DINAMITA

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    I'm not answering now and won't be again, period. You already know this so I don't know why you are not adhering to it. Waste someone else's time with your games. Good day to you sir.
     
  5. mariancobretti

    mariancobretti Well-Known Member Full Member

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    like Froch said...


    "Jones would have wiped the floor with him"
     
  6. BadJuju83

    BadJuju83 Bolivian Full Member

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    You just did.

    You are confusing but fair do's.
     
  7. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    A good portion of Jones's fights right after the McCellan tragedy ended early.

    While it obviously messed with Jones's head, the effects it had on his fighting style and fights going rounds are very exaggerated IMO. Jones started being more conservative and his fights lasted longer more so when he went to 175 and faced bigger opponents.
     
  8. Vitor Belfort

    Vitor Belfort Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Roy Jones by TKO/KO. A 90 yrs old jones drop calzaghe, imagine what he would have done to him during his prime. Jones was too fast and too slick for calzaghe.
     
  9. It's when people over exaggerate things greatly, that loses any credibility in argument.

    He is 3 years older than Joe. So by your reckoning he dropped an 87 year old Calzaghe.

    You're going to let a match made in fighters "late 80's/90's" affect what happens in prime?

    Leonard beat Duran in the 3rd fight badly. Both past prime.. No way Duran does anything when Leonard was prime... Oh wait..
     
  10. tays001

    tays001 ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    you ever seen the Viet fight or the eubank fight?
    and mitchell was out.


    and WTF if Rjj had not been Cut?:yep


    your are stupid jones won the first round by that knock down. the second maybe .

    after that it was all joe calzaghe. joe had banked more rounds and jones wasn't doing **** in round 7 . hell in round 9 joe could of stopped him but decided to play with him. (side note some where glenn kelly was having a party) Get the **** out of here.
     
  11. RJJ4Life

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    Roy would win a unanimous decision, but it would've been a great fight, easily one of Jone's biggest tests in those days.
     
  12. JonesHagler

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    how would he have been Jones biggest win back then? All Joe had on his resume was Eubank.....that's it.
     
  13. Brit Sillynanny

    Brit Sillynanny Cold Hard Truth Full Member

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    Joe is ESB's Marciano. It's a demographic thing.

    If there was an ESB Olympics we would soon discover why the polling on here is so asinine. In the real world, Joe remains completely (COMPLETELY) unknown in the US (not because Americans don't follow boxing but because they only know the greats). Joe is a very good fighter. He is not anywhere close to RJJ's fighting zip code.
     
  14. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Haven't you heard? Hindsight is all the rage these days; it seems to matter more to some people what guys accomplish afterward than what they did before the fight. Bernard Hopkins' best win before losing to Roy was a dude named Wayne Powell whose claim to fame was winning the NABF light middleweight title, and look how Roy's win over Hopkins is reflected upon today.

    Glen Johnson's best wins when Hopkins destroyed him were against a 3 legged goat and a morbidly obese lobster, but he had a 30 something and 0 record at the time and won a title 10 years later; so, naturally, there's more than a few people who actually rate that as one of Hopkins' best wins.

    If Jones had beaten Calzaghe, and Calzaghe went on to have the exact same career he did, there's no question it would be looked at as a huge win for Jones today, even if people didn't care that much about it at the time like the prior two cases I mentioned.
     
  15. Danny_Rand

    Danny_Rand Slick N Quick Full Member

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    ROy Jones stoppage 8