Corrie Sanders vs Roy Jones for WBO heavyweight Title in 2003...who wins?

I remember thinking Jones was shaken when Ruiz hit him with a not so special right hand in the first round. I think Ruiz had a chance of victory if he would have attacked. Instead he did what he always does, and just seemed to be a spectator rather than a participant.

Anyway, Sanders was way too big for Jones. Sanders by ko.

 

Le' Sigh.

I shudder to think what Sander's could of accomplished with King hanging off his balls like he was with Ruiz.

 

Ruddock at nine shows you ring ratings are just a guide, as fighters rise and fall.

 

I like how Mason's so high when he never did a thing to warrant it.

 

This is a fair, balanced post.

People point to the Nate Tubbs loss, but Tubbs was not in the fight until he caught Sanders with a big shot. Hey, it's the heavyweights - these things happen when the big guys rumble, ask Lewis.

 

Yeah, Jones beat a slowish Ruiz who had at best average power. :-( About the only decent heavyweight he could beat.

 

thats why there are divisions in boxing,jones gets his ass kicked.sanders was just to big and hit to hard.

 

Yep, it would be Chuvalo vs Durelle all over again.

 

Ironicaly Jones made the bigest mistake in boxing history by moving down from heavyweight.

As it was he came back down to light heavy and got demolished by Tarver and Johnson.

Nobody would have questioned his chin at light heavy if Sanders had toasted him.

 

34-0

 

This is where skill would have been rendered irrelevent. Sanders would have brutally ko'd Jones. Sanders was fast enough to have made this an easy fight. It would have been the first ko of Jones career, and FAR more devastating than the ones scored by Tarver and Johnson. A HEAVYWEIGHT KO. Sanders was everything that Ruiz was not. Jone's great achilles heel was his inability to take a big punch. This was proven emphatically, twice by LIGHTHEAVYWEIGHTS!!! What has intrigued so many fans about Corrie Sanders is that he had the handspeed to go with his power, making the delivery of his weaponry so much more effective than that of other slower, more ponderous heavies. Why do you think Jones chose Ruiz for his heavyweight debut? Smart choice, smart matchmaking in that Ruiz was not a puncher, not explosive, and not particularly fast. Sanders would have nothing to fear from Jones, and would have been riding the crest of the wave of confidence from his devastation over Klitschko. I believe you would have seen a 1st or 2nd round blowout that would have either reminded fans of Coetzee-Spinks, or Cooney-Norton, with a panicky referee stopping a scary, one round blitzkrieg. What a talent Sanders would have been if he had dedicated himself to boxing and had gotten himself into shape, with the help of a trainer like Emanual Steward, for instance. Roy cherry-picked the safest of the top ten heavyweights to debut against. He would have gotten killed by a motivated, in-shape Corrie Sanders.

 

I'm familiar with his record.