Roy Jones vs Nigel Benn: why didnt this fight happen?

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  1. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Steve Collins was offered 7 million from a US TV network??!

    Steve Collins?
     
  2. keith

    keith ESB OG Full Member

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    No he was offered 3 million, but wanted 7 million.

    My bad, my post was horribly written, and when I read it was contextually false the way I wrote it.

    I edited it. Sorry.

    Keith
     
  3. QUIDO3UIDO

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    Benn would have hurt Jones bad
     
  4. keith

    keith ESB OG Full Member

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    Probably not. He got beat pretty soundly by Malinga I beleive during the time they were tryong to put the fight together.

    Keith
     
  5. HEADBANGER

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    prime benn and prime mcclellan would have shattered jones' chin. instead he cherry picked and kept the wool pulled over america's eyes for another 10 years.
     
  6. Beddzy

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    As someone who lives in the UK, you buddy are talking bull****.
     
  7. SnakeFist7

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    Jones didn't cherry pick, he beat people who were champs in his weight division, some guys who were good fighters. So you have a wool pulled over your eyes.
     
  8. SnakeFist7

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    :good
     
  9. essexboy

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    Just one of those things that didnt come off, I dont think Jones was ducking Benn and I know Benn would fight anybody, he wasnt a ducker. No doubt Don King was involved as suggested.

    Incidentally, people saying Benn and McClellan would tear off a prime Jones head obviously werent around at the time a prime Jones was fighting, he would have taken them both apart without too much stress. And Benn's my favourite fighter.
     
  10. C.J.

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    Jones jr is one of the most overated fighters ever. He knew Nigel Benn , pre McClellan fight, would have kicked his ass. The Benn-McClellan tragic result really ended both careers. Nigel was never the same fighter afterwards & Geralds devastating injuries ended his. Jones ducked all his legit opponents & instead fought the Glen Kellys & Bryant Brannons of this world. First tim he met a legit opponent >>>> KO
    Same thing is going to happen to Mayfeather Duck
     
  11. MrPR

    MrPR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Th fight didnt happen because Roy wouldve ended Nigel Benns career and Don King knew that

    2 different leagues
     
  12. h2hkiller

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    I'm a huge fan of both fighters but to say Benn would have beaten Roy is way out there.

    Lets put it this way: did Benn have trouble with Malinga? Malinga is a poor man's kid's version of RJ.
     
  13. Babality

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    He did not want his chin tested.
     
  14. essexboy

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    James Toney, Virgil Hill and a heavyweight John Ruiz werent legit opponents then? Also if the first time he met a legit opponent was a KO what happened in the previous fight? Nice usage of a pun there to describe Mayweather, a career working as a headline conjurer for The Sun awaits. God why do I come into the general?
     
  15. MAG1965

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    exactly, he was the first Floyd type of fighter.