ATG LHW Tourney - Round 1 - Gene Tunney vs Roy Jones Jr

I like tunney but i gotta give it to roy .... Roy beats him in a close fight and picks up enough rounds in the early rounds and late rounds to beat tunney in a close fight . tunney has his moments however

 

Few boxers in history would beat a Prime Jones. Gene would give him a good fight, probably one of if not the best fight 90s Jones ever had, but he won't be able to beat him. I won't say Roy knocks him out, since Gene Tunney has never been knocked out, but Roy wins the decision. The only person to beat Tunney was Greb, and Roy is a better fighter than Greb.
Roy is a modern athlete, would be faster and stronger than Tunney but Tunney does have a 2 inch reach advantage. Perhaps he could pull off a miracle? 65-1ain't nothing to take lightly, especially when the competition he beat is taken into account.

Either way, Roy is my heavy favorite. I'd bet on him.

 

Jones by decision. Not a easy win for him but he's a clear winner.

 

Jones on points he’s just too fast, his fantastic reflexes will keep him outa harms way. Tunney is no slouch and is pretty quick handed but I think Jones’s style will be a puzzle Gene doesn’t solve. Jones will leap in and out and score enough points to take a clear decision.

 

I am a huge Roy Jones fan. And, Jones may be the better fighter overall. But, not at 175. I will take Tunney by decision or possibly late knockout if it is scheduled for 15. These other greats at 175 are just a lot more durable than Roy. And, in spite of Roy's hand speed advantage, Tunney has the smarts to set traps for Roy.

 

Jones was a phenomenal fighter but people forget he was superior at 160 and 168 than he was at 175 where he was dropped by del Valle and was getting outboxed by Montell Griffen (although he was making a late comeback and seemed on the verge of stopping Montell) because the late punches that disqualified him. I have to go with Tunney here. Just a better 175 pounder.

 

Good post

 

Jones beat Griffin in about 2 minutes in their rematch about 5 months later.

He won every second of the fight against Lou Delvalle with the exception of the flash knock down.

Jones in my eyes dismantled all the Light Heavyweights he faced just as effectively as he had the lower weight classes. It was only after he went up to Heavyweight and dismantled Ruiz and then came back down to Light Heavyweight that he finally started to show signs of his age, deterioration, and began to slow down. I think the first fight with Tarver, a struggle showed he had a lot of moxie. He fought his ass off down the stretch of that fight, and probably pulled it out in the championship rounds. He was in a real fight there something that he was never really in in his prime because he was so athletically gifted and so much better than everyone else.

 

Tunney, Jones is overated.

 

Jones. Tunney is overrated.

 

Everything you said here is true. But that doesn't change the fact that-I'm going to repeat myself here- he was dropped by Lou delValle and was getting outboxed by Montell Griffen before the disqualification. I personally don't rate either one of them particularly highly. Perhaps you do? Tunney lost one fight in his career (decision) to a fellow that many rate as the greatest ever p4p ever- although I personally can't because I, like everyone else, have never seen fight. Putting Roy Jones #1 all time head to head at middle or 168 (even though he hadn't many fights there) is plausible. But at 175? Neither his resume nor his performances indicate that. A case can be made for Tunney there, though.

 

In a 15 round fight Tunney will catch Roy and knock him out. Tunney could fight,

 

This & easily at that.