The Fighters Roy Jones Supposedly "Ducked"

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  1. willmc83

    willmc83 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Collins was based in the states almost his entire proffesional career and had two world title fights in the states (mccallum 90) (johnson 92). he was trained by goodie petronelli and laterly freddie roache. collins was a name in the states and he wasn't calling jones out from the safety of his homeland
     
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  2. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    Jones biggest trick was to 'act' like he wanted to fight someone then he would either overprice himself or offer a ridiculous payday like he did to Nunn which was like 125k or something silly like that.

    After 'acting' like he wanted to fight someone he would then go and fight an Otis Grant or an off duty cop, or a bartender or something like that.
     
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  3. willmc83

    willmc83 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    have a look at the below clip. interview with collins after he beat eubank for the first time, he was calling out jones since 1995 and jones ducked him. fast forward to 6:20- he calls out roy jones and anyone else that wants to know;

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxf82Uvo_v8[/ame]
     
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  4. Commando

    Commando Guest

    :lol::good


    anyways


    The only fighter on that list you can say he might have avoided was Nigel Benn. The truth is though, they both tried to make the fight happen but it didn't for unknown reasons.

    That's all you can really say.

    Roy Jones didn't show a weak jaw in his prime, he was only knocked down by Lou Del Valle up at Light Heavyweight. He got in the ring and took punches from Hopkins, Toney, Sosa, Ruiz, Griffin and Castro. He went the full length of the fight with five of them them so give him some credit.

    But it's your opinion you can say he would have got his glass jaw mandible shattered by all fighters on the list and that's why he ducked them...but there's one thing you know that's true and that is Roy Jones has a better resume than anybody on that list.
     
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  5. Eubank

    Eubank Active Member Full Member

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    The British and Irish Super Middleweights of the time would have destroyed him.
     
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  6. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    And for those who want to know the winner of the Collins Johnson fight would have had a crack at Jones ..Guess who won ??
     
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  7. kopejh

    kopejh Guest

    Collins had a huge Irish-American following in the states and he might as well have been fighting in his hometown for the bouts against McCallum and Johnson. either way, two past it, though still good, fighters in McCallum and Kalambay made him look like a neanderthal in spots and RJJ wouldn't have had any trouble walking Collins into some chilling shots
     
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  8. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    damn straight!
     
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  9. mafiajoey

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    Just Like PacFag
     
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  10. Exactabox

    Exactabox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I had a list to post but it said "File too large"
     
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  11. pasky2000

    pasky2000 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That's a great post Commando. :good

    I think Roy now probably acknowledges that he should have tried harder to land some of those fights...
     
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  12. 8count

    8count sidekick Full Member

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    that's a long list
     
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  13. HEADBANGER

    HEADBANGER TEAM ELITE GENERAL Full Member

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    this is the fact of the matter :deal
     
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  14. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    i think this is the best way to put it.

    did he duck a lot of fighters? no.

    did he do everything to make those fights happen? no ****ing way

    roy tried, but not hard enough. he did just enough to make an honest effort and said "**** it, i'm roy jones. I'll just fight glenn kelly instead and look like ****ing superman"
     
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  15. mafiajoey

    mafiajoey Member Full Member

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    Most TRUTHFUL post on here...besides mine lol Couldn't have said it better. Roy was a ***** anyways
     
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