Finally did research on Roy Jones. He actually did avoid most of the top MW-SMW.

Because there were so many threads on Roy-Ward-Calzaghe lately, it got my little curiosity engine burning and I decided to do a little researching.


1992- Roy Jones Jr became a legit MW top 3 fighter.

At that time these were the top middleweights.
Julian Jackson
James Toney (Toney at this stage of his career had NO issues making weight)
Reggie Johnson
Roy Jones Jr.
Mike McCallum
Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn were hovering between 160-168

Roy in 1992 fought Jorge Vaca, Art Serwano,Glenn Thomas, Percy Harris, and Glenn Wolfe.



1993
Roy has now become the #1 MW in the world.
These were his peers
Roy Jones Jr.
Gerald McClellan
John David Jackson
Reggie Johnson
Julian Jackson
Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn were hovering between 160-168

Roy avoided the murderous punchers and fought a relatively unknown Bernard Hopkins. Who became an ATG, but at that point in time, Bernard was not seen as a threat what so ever. After Hopkins Roy went on to fight the
much feared 'Fermin Chirino"


1994-1995
Roy Jones Jr is now considered the best 168 fighter in the world.

Right behind him were
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Frankie Liles
Tim Littles
Michael Nunn


JAMES TONEY WAS RANKED AS A LIGHT HEAVY WEIGHT by the end of that year.


Roy Jones Jr decided to fight a clearly weight issued Toney and
good ole DANNY GARCIA.

James Toney was probably Roy's best win







Roy moves up to LHW, avoided the clear #2 Dariusz Michalczewski and fought everyone else.

Now this is very interesting, because Roy actually became less of a duck at LHW as compare to his MW-SMW Days.

I will like a expert on this subject. Perhaps Bailey, to explain why Roy Jones avoided most of the top MW-SMWs, but did LESS avoiding as a LHW?





Roy did finally managed to stop avoiding Mike McCallum and decided to fight him many years later when he became a LHW.
Mike's LHW record is 4-3. Mike's best days were clearly in the early-mid 90's when he and Roy both fought at 160-168ish weights. Offers were never accepted by Roy's camp.

 

It's pretty shocking how so many people don't realize Roy actually did avoid the vast majority of his MW-SMW competition.

 

I got no agenda. Prove the facts and stats I provided wrong?

From 1992 up until the point of Roy turning LHW, Roy fought 1 elite fighter in his division. Bernard Hopkins .Who at the time wasn't even considered elite. Bernard Hopkins was ranked 8-11 at the time at MW. I don't know that a top 8-11 guy was an 'elite' fighter.


James Toney was clearly drained, Roy himself forced Toney to fight at a lower weight in which Toney was no longer capable of fighting at.

Toney wasn't even ranked in the same division as Roy by the end of that year. Why didn't Roy clean out the divisions or even fight a top 5 guy?
Why didn't he fight Toney during their MW Days when Toney was still capable of performing at those weights?

 

1992
Julian Jackson
James Toney (Toney at this stage of his career had NO issues making weight)
Reggie Johnson
Mike McCallum
Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn were hovering between 160-168

1993-94
Gerald McClellan
John David Jackson
Reggie Johnson
Julian Jackson
Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn were hovering between 160-168


1994-1995-1996
Nigel Benn
Chris Eubank
Frankie Liles
Tim Littles
Michael Nunn

LHW- Dariusz Michalczewski (This one is up for debate, the rest isn't)

The only guy Roy fought during all those years was James Toney. Who never had intentions of staying at 168. When Toney had no issues with weight, Roy never fought him. It wasn't until Toney started preparing for his 175 campaign that Roy jumped on board.

 

Great point Phil. It is interesting how you bring up the chin and upon further inspection of all the top ranked fighters he avoided. It was mostly big punchers.

 

No.. He did avoid them. Lol. Stop being butt hurt brah.

Not one ATG avoided as many ranked guys in his divisions as Roy did.
Explain why he avoided everyone I listed during the opening page.

You can use the excuse of 'bad contracts' or 'failed negotiations' for 1-2, even 3-4 of them. How do you explain ALL of them.

Maybe Roy had a K2 slave contract too?

 

Why you raging? You are clearly butt hurt.
So someone going from 1992 to 1996 WITHOUT FIGHTING 98% of his top competition have no basis for suspicion?