A 'green' Hopkins, Griffin, of course, and southpaws Harding and Tarver landed plenty on Jones. None are even in the league below Marvin Hagler....
He had glaringly obvious positioning problems, Jones.
Too good? For Hagler? Hagler at his best was way beyond good. Too fast, you mean? Even then it's only one asset. Of course Hagler did not...
He had slipped dramatically by the time he fought Hearns, let alone two and a half years later against Ray with only one rusty match in between....
But that power is made redundant by Marvin's cast-iron skull structure and immense determination / mental sharpness. Sure Jones had speed. Sure...
Hagler would pressure Jones, stick to him, and corner him. Add to that Hagler's physical strength, chin, stamina, wealth of experience against all...
Stanley Ketchel! Nigel Benn!
Hearns would have a field day with short-armed winger-slapper Calzaghe? Surely
Sanderline Williams rarely got caught! Slippery. Chris Eubank had a phenomenal chin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BW7EuXuOs
It was nasty that Michael Watson got 15k on the Benn-Eubank undercard... while Benn, who he beat the previous year, was raking it in.
He beat Benn, he beat Watson, he beat Rocchigiani - he had the longest unbeaten record in boxing before he lost (and the most world title wins)....
Neither was Benn. Took him years to grow up into that weight.
NATHAN CLEVERLY has vowed to quit boxing if he loses his grudge match with Liverpools Tony Bellew. The two men meet in Bellews Merseyside back...
I'm not going to waste my time with a borderline ******. I just hope you get the help you need.
