Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs Roy Jones at 175lbs

I thought the fight was a masterclass in disciplined technical boxing from Spinks, personally. I enjoyed it.

 

Qawi will put heaps more heat on Roy than Toney did. He's a much better fighter coming forward (Toney to me is more comfortable as a counter puncher) and a better body puncher as well. Harder puncher too of course, as has already been mentioned.

Will it be enough to beat Roy? I'm undecided. But if he gets him in trouble like Lou Del Valle did, Qawi promptly finishes proceedings.

 

I wouldn't disagree with most of that, although Toney is a quality bodypuncher in his own right. The question is if coming forward and being aggressive is a good ploy against Jones as your giving an ATG counter puncher plenty of countering opportunities against an underrated puncher

 

Where did you see that?
I can't find it on youtube, or anywhere really, maybe its on your channel?

 

I'm a Qawi fan yet I love that fight though I saw it before I became a Qawi fan. Great fight imo Spinks dug in there to pull off a great win.

 

I don't see how Qawi's and Toney's fundamental styles can be compared just because they both shared the same tactic of moving their heads. Toney was a comparatively tall, lanky counterpuncher who liked to sucker opponents into him; Qawi was a short, stocky, swarming aggressor.

I certainly don't remember Toney doing this to guys at the world class level:
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...nor would I favor Jones to overcome this sort of attack from a pressure fighter of Qawi's caliber.

 

I dont think there is much of a comparison between Toney and Qawi either, but that being said, Jones was such an accurate pin point puncher against offensive fighters like this, and Qawi with his offensive attack was going to present more openings for Jones to land his lead and counter power shots. Jones just had too much speed to be pushed around the ring.
It took a bit of unorthodox counterpunching and offensive mix to confuse Jones a little, something Toney had zero success with, and Qawi was pretty cut and dry.