Anyone Pick Roy Jones Jr Over Carnera?

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by Fergy, Aug 29, 2024.


Who wins?

  1. Carnera

    71.4%
  2. RJJ

    28.6%
  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Jones doesn't win many Heavyweight H2H s on here (probably rightly so).
    How would Superman have done then against the Preem?
    Carnera not really a puncher for all his size and weight, against a guy who's chin is really only tested at heavy by Ruiz
     
  2. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    With Joe Cortez as the referee I would. And I go against the idea that Carnera was a bum, but take the infighting of him and Carnera has nothing to offer Roy.
     
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  3. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 MONZON VS HAGLER 2025 Full Member

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    Not a chance - Loughran (spelling?) was better then Jones and so was Sharkey.
    At his best “Da Preem” beats Jones down on the inside, Preem is about 70lbs of actual muscle heavier - Jones wouldn’t know how to fight someone that psychical and dirty, I don’t remember how well he fought on the inside if at all.
     
  4. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 MONZON VS HAGLER 2025 Full Member

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    It really does depend on the ref letting Carnera just hold Roy and club him over the head in the corner, otherwise Roy just moves around Preem all night.
     
  5. Devon

    Devon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Roy Jones has the perfect style to deal with him, he’d catch him over that lazy jab, he’d feint, step back and draw him onto punches again and again.
     
  6. Dubblechin

    Dubblechin Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Carnera wins without much trouble.

    If you ever meet Roy Jones in person, you'll see how small he really is in the flesh.

    Make two fists and put them together. That's about how big his whole head is. In his heyday, he packed a lot of muscle on a pretty tiny skeleton.