Prime RJJ vs Tonight's Kovalev

No one would beat a prime RJJ infact he was so good I bet he could move all the way up to heavyweight a win a belt. Wait a minute

 

Prime RJJ would have annihilated Kovalev. Can any one with a brain doubt this? ffs.

 

Roy would connect clean first and get a KO. Although it was a very impressive performance by Kovalev against Bhop, he seemed shaky a few times after getting hit by a 49 year old man who hasn't KO'ed anyone for 10 years.

 

As thoroughly satisfying as last night was, watching Kovalev land clean and hard on bhop's little bean head, I do think Kovalev would get slept by a prime RJJ.

 

Hopkins brutalized RJJ when they met in light heavy class. Hopkins just got brutalized by Kovalev. Kovalev outworking and outpointing young RJJ is the most likely outcome. RJJ knocking Kov out is possible scenario, but I would not put my money on that.

Kovalev does not care if opponent feints or not. He executes his own gameplan so your reference to Roy's fainting is irrelevant and reveals your lack of understanding the sport. Kovalev would extract a lot of pain on Roid's well built midsection again and again.

 

Hopkins brutalized a shot fighter

Jones has 1 punch KO power in his prime he also had incredible hand speed you seem to forget that Kovalev just beat a 49 yr old yet he was dropped by a lesser fighter in his previous fight . Jones could also knock Kovalev out with a body punch seems your mistaking the old. Jones with a young one !

 

Obviously complete speculation, but I imagine Jones looking good for the first round pot shotting, but early in the 2nd round gets caught by a big shot that badly hurts him and has him in big trouble. I think Jones gets through the round but is badly hurt and then its all Kovalev as he looks to land the big shot again, scoring a KO in the middle rounds.

Kovalev - KO in the middle rounds

Of course we will never know, but thats how I imagine it to go

 

Prime RJJ would knock him out and humiliate him either in the early rounds or in the late rounds. It wouldn't go 12 and if you've seen prime RJJ you'd know that.

 

When RJJ was in his primes even his haters thought he was invincible. He wasn't nick named superman for nothing.

It wasn't just that he was beating top guys but he was making them all look like they never boxed a day in their lives. He humiliated a prime James Toney and then beat another guy after playing a basketball game and rap concert.

Kovalev has the wrong kind of style to go 12 rounds with a prime RJJ. Maybe RJJ now would lose to him though.

 

Young people only saw the tail end of Roy's career, he started in 89 and got knocked out in 2004......So they take all that they saw past 2004 and try to use that as a guide to who Roy really was as a fighter...not taking into consideration that the guy went up to 200 pounds and then went down to 175 in 6 months...he lost all muscle.... look at the fighters that were destroyed instantly from that type of weight loss

Chris Byrd
Chad Dawson

Those two come to mind....Roy would have been better off staying at heavy or cruiser and avoided that massive weight loss altogether...

The steroid allegations don't really hurt Roy's because he got caught on a technicality no one really considers ripped fuel in the same category as steroids.

Only die hard Roy hater the ones who always hated him bring up garbage like that, they are the ones who make a case for Darious Michelchevski as being Roys version of Pac to Floyd....

As for this fight Sergei vs Prime Roy, Sergei gets beat up and embarrassed for 12 rounds....Prime Roy didn't look for the kill similar to Floyd now....this fight would have went 12 rounds with Sergei's head snapping back all night long...

 

I would have liked to see RJJ vs Michalczewski. After that the Kovalev fight would be a lot easier to predict.

 

This is a perfect example of what Juse just posted about....look at this comment.....the question being asked is about a Prime Roy....

This guy is obviously about 17-18 years old and started watching boxing around 2006......

Come on Rico prove me wrong...

 

I'm referring to Jones who fought at light heavy. He got much slower once he started to put muscle and moved up in weight class with roids. It happens to everyone and I have experienced same myself. Kovalev is natural light heavy and bigger than Jones. Jones only has punchers chance, since Kovalev is fundamentally better boxer, too.