Bob Foster vs Roy Jones...Lt.heavies/winner?

I was more referring to the likes of Doug Jones (a LHW) and Terrell

 

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I dont know that much of Telesco but he was a top10 contender with some decent wins coming in, Jones was slipping by that time too. Fighters tended to run from Jones at this stage too and he'd box safely himself

 

I thought this was the Classic forum!

 

Interesting match up. Foster's chin was not much of an issue at light heavyweight, and Jones was not a huge puncher at light heavyweight.

Foster has a reach, height, and power edge. Jones has a speed edge, but he not one to stand and trade or in-fight much.

I think Foster would get Jones respect early, and Jones would try to safely counter. It could be a boring fight to watch, and a hard fight to judge.

I tend to favor Foster here. If he lands, Jones is a gonner. If it goes to the cards, I still think Foster has an edge.

 

Foster seems to have the better jab and more power, but peak Jones is faster, more elusive, and hits hard enough to put Foster on the mat if he lands clean (Foster was dropped by Mina, dropped by DePaula, stung by a couple of others). This is actually a matter of who opens up and gets there first, and in this case, I'm going with the faster man.

Jones, mid-round stoppage after five or six rounds of cautious boxing.

 

Foster was green against Mina though and the DePaula "knockdown" was clearly a slip. Outside of those occurrences, I can't recall Foster having ever been knocked down at light heavyweight.

 

I dunno. Foster went down at the end of Frankie's punch, although he wasn't hurt at all and came back to eviscerate him in the same round. But the point is that Foster can't walk though the best punches that Jones can throw without having to be concerned about being hurt. If he does, he gets torched. Jones hit pretty hard at the weight when he was at his best.

 

foster at some point after the 11th

 

I don't think he was such a huge puncher at light heavyweight though and he lacked the aggression to put away most of his opponents. Fights against an old McCallum, Lou Del Valle, Reggie Johnson, David Telesco, Julio Gonzales and Antonio Tarver all went the distance. The Otis Grant (corner retirement), Hall, Harding (shoulder injury), Derrick Harmon (corner retirement) were late rounds stoppages.

He made short work of Montell Griffin in the rematch though, although I felt Griffin was always suspect and under-sized at 175, and of course had that great bodyshot KO of Virgil Hill.

I think that both of them having to be concerned about the other's punching power will affect Jones more than Foster. Roy could be overly cautious at times, Foster was willing to take a few good punches in order to land his own. If Foster forces Roy Jones to go into a shell, he could even walk out with a decision win.

 

Neither fighters opposition was that great at 175lbs,but Foster's was better imo.Jones has the handspeed, but Foster has the tools to win this ,great jab , great left hook , very good righthand.
I like Foster probably by dec, as Jones would fight conservatively.

 

This is what it's come to...

I think Roy Jones beats Foster rather easily. Roy will fight a very measured fight taking little chances but consistently beating Foster to the punch. I think Bob Foster will make it interesting because of his power and tenacity but I think Jones will make great use of lateral movement and will render Foster ineffective as he chases him down round in round out. Roy never cared about looking great in a fight, this is one where he will do whatever he needs to do to win the round and nothing more.

Jones also had a pretty decent chin at LHW. Later in his career is when he lost his punch resistance which is clearly attributed to his decision to come down in weight.

 

There really is a solid argument either way for this one...Roy is just so hard to deal with at his best, though I think he is overrated by people who really just dont know many fighters beside him, I think he could beat almost anyone over the 12 round distance in his era.

But to say he does this easily is frankly laughable...Roy had his hands full against a lame Harding, against Griffin the first time and the more I watch the fight the more I feel he wasnt nearly as dominant against an ancient bloated McCallum as the scores and popular opinion seem to think.

Foster has all the tools that would give a guy like Roy the absolute fits...on the other hand Roy has his own bag of tricks that give any fighter in history a big headache. But to say this is enough to dominate and stop a physical powerhouse like Foster, who is probably the hardest puncher the division has ever seen, is reeeally selling Bob short.


Best case scenario I see for Roy is him eeking out a decision by keeping the scoring down to a handful of punches a round and for the most part running and keeping on the defensive.
I cant see how anyone who has seen a decent catalogue of BOTH guys could see Roy cruising to victory here.

 

Jones KO'd heavyweights and nearly beat Ali.

 

Foster, TKO at 10 or 11. I think a prime Foster at LHW was nearly unbeatable...

 

Roy's comp wasn't any better than Foster's, and he was clearly less proven at the weight. Roy's best opponent was Tarver, who wasn't any better than Tiger or Rondon, and Roy never proved he could win a series with him or even beat him by a substantial margin.