There should be ssome kind of IQ test before you can post here and that includes Moderators...... Jones had ONE fight at Heavy against one of the worst beltholders in History....... Jones refused to fight the Ghost Of Buster douglas when he attempted a come back.......... If Jones is such a freak how come he rather got stripped from his belt than facing a challenger? Big$$$$$ is at Heavy........Jones would have made ungodly money at Heavy with his cheer leading HBO squad lampley/Kauffman and Kellerman shill for him to no end........ Jones is fugged on the outside.......fugged midrfange and fugged long range ...and running aint out boxing......there is zero chance he wins this fight but a 100% chance he will be eating thru a straw at a Nursing Home for the rest of life.... But there would be ZERO chance Roy would ever enter the Ring with Wilder......he is stupid but not that stupid
The watermelons at a Gallagher show have a better shot at lasting the distance than RJJ would here, I'm afraid.
agreed, I guess I bring up his China chinny chin chin... because even if wilder would be able to land as much as a jab he could & likely would stun jones if not out right hurt him & absolutely disintegrate Jones with that thunderous right.
Jones wasn't a heavyweight. The Jones that faced Ruiz doesn't beat even a lot of the 2nd tier big heavyweights much less Deontay Wilder. People need to come to the realization that without referee Jay Nady in Jones back pocket that night, there's a good chance he doesn't beat John Ruiz . So in Jones pocket was Jay Nady that Nady kept reminding Ruiz he'd take points if he even thought about getting Roy into a clinch. If John Ruiz would have been allowed to fight his usual clinchfest fight, he beats Roy Jones.
Another thing to consider is that if Jones had stayed at Heavyweight he would have adjusted more to the weight, and become an even better HW than he was vs Ruiz. Also it's hard to look good against a guy like John Ruiz.
Jones was afraid to matchup vs Buster Douglas. The Douglas fight was offered to Jones for the taking but he declined it despite the fact that Douglas was inactive and on the down slide. The fact that Douglas was tall with a sizeable reach dettered Jones. For Jones to turn down a fight like Buster Douglas, you best believe he must not have done to well sparring tall heavyweights with a reach.
Just rewatched a bit of Jones n Ruiz. Ruiz caught Jones with right hands in the very first round. How is Ruiz going to catch jones in the first... but the longer and more explosive Wilder isnt going to catch him all 12. You guys are acting like Roy is mr untouchable. He's not. Secondly... he has a habit of turning his head on defense and simply letting distance be the defense. Not rolling with the punch, but just backing away while looking away from the offense. This works against people your own size when you have the reflexes. It will get you knocked out against a guy that has almost a 9" reach advantage on you and is covering that gap better than your muscle memory is used to. Roy gets KO'd either jumping in from out of range or he gets KO'd backing away with his head turned. Either way he doesnt last the distance.
That was back in 1998 well before he had moved up to HW. He surely would have been even better at HW if he moved up back then. The match that would have been huge after Jones beat Ruiz would have been if Jones had gone on to fight Lennox Lewis who had just come off his win over Vitali to Unify the Titles. Lewis retired instead but had Jones and Lewis unified at HW in late 2003 early 2004 that would have been massive. I think it was more that Jones had promised Tarver he would fight him, and he didn't want to vacate his LHW title.
