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

Weight drainings a *****

 

Yeah, Byrd didn't have a bad chin. At all.

 

He beat Biggs, Tillis and was a Brit Champ. He beat Biggs 2 years after Tyson did. Winning the British belt at HW is no mean feat usually but I wasnt around the time of these fights to know how good all this amounted too

 

Longhorn71 said it best-Jones waited for Ruiz to become champ and then moved up.He could have fought Sanders but didn't.

 

Jones wanted Tyson or Lennox for Mega-Money. Big Name fighters face Big Name Fighters, not lesser names. Thats the reality of boxing.

 

Mason was a worthy fringe contender.
Maybe his record flattered to deceive, but he was a good, honest fighter that had lots of strength, was extremely tough and had a solid punch. He was a little slow and one-dimensional and he could never beat the elite of the day, but had he not developed eye problems he could have been a decent match for someone like a Mercer for example.

 

Jones had a chance to fight Lewis. He did not take the opportunity.

 

Lewis didn't take the opportunity, not Jones. Lewis pulled out of negotiations.

 

Do you have a source that says this? Lewis said he would take the fight. Roy Jones tucked tail and ran out of the heavyweight divison after beating Ruiz. Jones also had a chance to fight Vitlai K, and Sanders.

 

The original pages are not available any longer, but it was at btalk site.

Lewis-Jones: Much More Serious Than You Might Think
GL: I know it's kind of early on, but do you have any idea who would get the larger purse?
MM: Greg, I expressed to them, what my fighter said to me, 60-40. 60 for Roy and 40 for the champ.
GL: Did Burstein go for that?
MM: No he gave me his offer.
GL: And what was his offer?
MM: 60-40 for Lewis. Both fighters want to make more money than the other, but I've always said, where there's a will there's a way. And Roy and I will sit down and figure this all out. Lennox Lewis could have fought Klitschko next year and made more money than he is on June 21st, but I believe Lennox realizes that he could make HUGE money against Roy this year. This is about Roy Jones Jr.'s career, and he will make his choice within the next two weeks, on whether he will fight Evander or Lennox, and I can honestly tell you right now, he is leaning towards Lennox Lewis.

Murad Speaks On Jones Vs. Sanders
Then came Lennox Lewis, we offered him $25,000,000 to fight us, and when he realized it was real, he wanted to get rid of his mandatory (Klitschko) to fight Roy Jones Jr,, but after he put on that poor performance. he doesn't know if he should retire or fight Klitschko again, so Roy was left out in the cold.


There was never a talk of Jones meeting V. Klitschko at the time. As for Sanders:

Roy Jones Jr.: "Sanders Not A Done Deal!"
GL: What's the deal with Sanders Roy?
RJJ: ... Look at this here, they called me and told me there was a good deal for Corrie Sanders and it sounds good, but I don't know how legitimate it is because if they're (WBO) gonna strip him I definitely don't want to fight him. ...
GL: So if it's not unification you're not fighting Sanders?
RJJ: If he's getting stripped I ain't messing with it, it don't make sense. The only reason I was even considering the fight is because I don't have the WBO title in my archive. Ya feel me? If he's getting stripped it does me no good to fight him.

 

Jones out is bogus. He and Sanders could have meet for a title unification match. Fightnews.com reported Sanders badly wanted this fight. Roy did not.

Jones had more announcements of potential fights that any other fighter I can think of, and he really did not care if he had to drop one belt to pick up another.

I'm sure Lewis, Vitlai or Sanders would have badly KO'd Jones, and Jones was smart enough to know this.

 

WBO warned Sanders that if he chose to meet Jones, rather than mandatory challenger, he would be stripped. It was their official statement.

 

Beleive it or not, I have long wondered what how a match between Ray Mercer and Gary Mason would have played out. I would have liked to have seen Mercer fight Mason in the spring of 1991, in place of Lennox Lewis, shortly after Mercer beat Damiani. I'm guessing that it would have looked similar to the Bert Cooper fight, with the two of them slugging it out until both were swollen. I probably would have picked Ray to take a 9th 0r 10th round TKO win. Mason hadn't been testing himself much lately, and from what I read in Ring magazine at the time, had looked rather poor against Everett Martin and Mark Wills, ( not that anyone ever looked particularly impressive against those guys. )

Imagine Mercer beating a 27-0 Damiani, a 35-0 Mason, then a 28-0 Morrison, all of whom were ranked, and at least two of them holding one kind of title or another. By early 1992, Mercer probably would have been the concencus #1 in the world, and who knows how this may have effected weather or not he took the Holmes fight.

 

agree with Red Cobra! Jones picked the least threat of the heavy weight division. Always talking **** but rarely backing it up. Saying he could knock both Klitschkos out. Sanders Ko's him early!

 

Fighting Sanders would have been a career ending mistake for Jones. The ko that Sanders would have hung on Jones would have made his two actual ko losses look minor by comparison. What a bullshitter Jones was to pick a guy like Ruiz instead of one of the more dangerous heavyweight hitters like Sanders, either Klitschko, Lewis or Tua. Any one of them would have beheaded Jones, who couldn't even deal with the power of Tarver or Johnson!