Comparing Roy jones Jr at LHW to Artur beterbiev is crazy talk

I don't why we keep harping on about power, when prime Roy was very hard to hit clean, its not like it would be a shoot out in the pocket. Even prime Beterbiev relies on breaking down opponents not taking them out with 1 punch. He simply would not hit prime roy jones enough times to break him down and would be target practice for Roy.

 

Is Roid Jones retired yet? Anderson Silva can knock him out cold in a send off fight.

 

I saw that wanka interviewer trying his hardest to imply that Canelo hits harder than Beterbiev when that is not at all what Bivol said. The dude is obviously a Canelo ball bag swinger.

 

That is laughable. Roy getting knocked out by glancing blows now lol. That never happened in his whole career even when he was shot.

 

It’s not laughable at all. Feather fisted Glen Johnson savagely KOed Glass Jaw Roy for almost 6 minutes. Think about that.
Roy couldn’t take a punch at all. He had no Chin no Plan B and no Heart. None.

 

Roy was great - there’s no denying that. Many thought he was up there with SRR and SRL. In terms of talent and athleticism, he was. But unless you die young, greatness must be maintained and the masses reminded. Roy neglected that. His resume isn’t as bad as his critics say, but it’s not even close to SRR, SRL, Ali, Pacquiao, Spinks, Charles, Moore, or the lesser lights of Holyfield, De la Hoya, Morales, Barrera etc. Reluctant Roy and the Roycott had their basis in reality. The reason that Roy rapped Y’all Must’ve Forgot was because boxing was tired of him fighting unemployed bartenders and assistant grave diggers while talking about himself in the third person, while guys like undefeated Dariusz M and Vassily Jirov were in or close to his weight class. Imagine rapping about how good you were to people rightfully tired of you no longer fighting…instead of actually fighting someone to remind them. Roy was a victim of his own hubris.
Based on what we witnessed of Roy at 175, he never would’ve signed to fight Arthur. He would’ve priced himself out, claiming his health was more important and in the next breath announce that he’s fighting an off duty fireman. He had the physical ability to beat Beterbiev but not mental fortitude to prove it in the ring.

 

There were only two top light heavyweights that Roy didn't fight and those were Dariuz M and Graciano Rochigiani. Nobody wanted to see Roy vs GR and people were way more interested in seeing Roy vs Reggie Johnson than they were in a Roy vs DM fight as seen by the poll conducted by HBO.

There was never talk of a Roy vs Jirov fight and Calzaghe only became interested in a Roy fight after Roy already had three legitimate losses on his record.

Roy really wasn't the biggest LHW as seen in his fights vs Richard Hall, Antonio Tarver and Julio Cesar Gonzalez so demanding that Roy fight at cruiser would not have been reasonable.

Many of Roys opponents would have beaten Bivol and Beterbiev with little effort and Roy would have beaten them with even less effort.

 

Favoring Roys opponents over Beterbiev let alone with little effort is ridiculous. What would one base such a silly argument on?

Nobody was even close to beating Beterbiev in his prime

 

Roy was a shot fighter at that point. Completely ignoring Roy became HW champ. You are just a hater, pointless debating.

 

Look up recency bias. Beterbiev went life and death with friggin Yarde and was down on the score cards before he stopped him, and Yarde is nothing special at all. If Yarde was hitting Beterbiev all night with his left hook, just imagine Roy..

 

Which of Roy's light heavyweight opponents would beat Beterbiev and Bivol with little effort? Because from what I can gage all of Roy's opponents get battered by either Beterbiev, Bivol, Gvodzyk, Kovalev, Andre Ward. Are you talking about:-

A 5 ft 9 Glen Johnson, former Middleweight? He beats Beterbiev with little effort?

or a 40 year old Mike McCallum. He beats Bivol with little effort?

or Clinton Woods, Reggie Johnson, Virgil Hill? Montell Griffin?

Maybe you talking about Telesco.

Come on man, even Joe Smith Jr beats up most of those guys.

 

Lmao. You live in pure fantasy land like most Roid Jones fanboys.

 

Roy was never THE Heavyweight champ that was Lennox Lewis. John Ruiz was a paper belt holder. A fraud.