Who fought tougher opposition Roy Jones jr or Floyd mayweather

Floyd Mayweather

Diego Corralles
Jose Louis Castillo 2x
Emmanuel Augustus
Genaro Hernandez
Demarcus Corley
Arturo Gatti
Zab Judah
Carlos Baldomir
Oscar De La Hoya
Ricky Hatton
Juan Manuel Marquez
Shane Mosley
Victor Ortiz
Miguel Cotto
Robert Guerrero
Saul Alvarez

Roy Jones

Bernard Hopkins 2x (1 Loss)
James Toney
Thualani Malinga
Mike Maccalum
Montell Griffin 2x (1 Loss)
Lou Del Valle
Clinton Woods
John Ruiz
Antonio Tarver 3x (2 losses)
Glen Johnson - Loss
Joe Calzaghe - Loss
Denis Lebedev - Loss

The thing with Roy Jones is that he would fight a good fighter every now and then but inbetween those fighters are guys who were picked to make Jones look good and he didnt pick up his level of opposition until the loss to Tarver and now hes doing a james toney, fighting low level opposition and looking poor til they get a payday against an up and comer like Denis Lebedev.

Mayweather on the other hand has faced top tier opposition for the last 5-8 years non stop and hasnt lost. yo ucould argue about the pac scenario but both parties were to blame and then you could argue Floyd wasnt that active but as far as im concerned if your getting punched in the head for a living you can fight as often as you want, its easy to yell that floyds a ***** behind a keyboard

 

No mention of Virgil Hill or Eric Harding? Yeah, that's not biased.

 

Where's Virgil Hill, who he crushed in 4 rounds?

Where's Reggie Johnson, who he easily beat to unify at 175?

Where's Eric Harding who was a huge southpaw, who beat Tarver?

Where's Gonzalez who he toyed with, who then went on to beat Dariusz M?

Floyd has fought some great fighters, but De La Hoya and Sugar Shane etc were past their best.

 

they got the nerve to say he ain't fight nobody, he just make em look like nobody...

 

People who say Jones Jr only fought bums are idiots

 

Jones ducked maske DM and graciano, and the hill he fought was way "over the hill" pardon the pun.

 

Flurry,

He didn't duck DM and Roy had only moved up to 175 late 96, so it wasn't his fault that Hill was past his best by that point. But I wouldn't say that Hill was shot. He went 12 with DM, and then knocked out Tiozzo in a single round, more than 2 years later. He also looked ok against Maske. So it was a very good/great win for Roy in my opinion.

 

Fmj

 

Roy fought bigger threats . Tarver 3X , B Hop , James Toney , John Ruiz (Although limited fighter , he was a natural heavyweight and had 30 pound advantage on Roy )

 

@Flurry

Out of the 2 fighters that are being discussed at this moment which is between ROY & "FLOYD". You going say Roy Jones DUCKED people ??

 

Floyd Mayweather
W Miguel Cotto
W Jose Luis Castillo
W Diego Corrales
W Saul Alvarez
W Ricky Hatton
W Juan Manuel Marquez
W Genaro Hernandez
W Zab Judah
W Sharmba Mitchell



Roy Jones
James Toney
Mike McCallum- past prime
Montell Griffin
John Ruiz
Antonio Tarver
Thualani Malinga
Clinton Woods
Eric Harding

- Come on guys...it looks obvious Mayweather's opposition is better.

 

You are quick to put Mike McCallum as past prime but Miguel Cotto wasn't ?

Miguel Cotto - Past Prime Yet Gave Floyd alot of problems .
Ricky Hatton - hypejob who was always overrated due to his massive popularity
Zab Judah - Faded fighter who was coming off a loss to z list fighter Baldomir
Saul Alvarez - Lets not get ahead of ourselves , The world will see what happens on sept 14 .

 

Mayweather

 

I agree with the main theme of this thread. RJJ has the bigger wins in Toney and Bhop but Floyd has the depth. I give the edge to Mayweather because he was constantly outweighed in the ring.