Fred Apostoli vs Roy Jones @ 160

Hm, Jones is a strange case, when I think about matchups with him my first urge is always to pick him. He looked so damned dominant and awesome. But then I start thinking about who he fought and I get more and more reluctant to pick him.

Apostoli is more proven than Jones and can knock him out. Jones has the speed and skills to avoid that and beat him. Thing is, Jones never fought a mw as good as Apostoli and was terribly inexperienced there. He fought three good guys there. Workman but hard puncher Jorge Fernando Castro, novice but future atg Bernard Hopkins and average but two-weightclass contender Thomas Tate. Ask yourself two things: is that enough experience to take on a veteran mw borderline atg like Apostoli? Can you honestly pick such a fighter, as much of a phenom as he was, over someone like Apostoli? Personally, I just can´t.

 

Very well put Bodhi...I agree.

 

even though Jones was inexperienced i still have to pick him. I mean Jones was just too phenomal at Middle and Super Middle even when he was inexperienced.

Jones TKO8

 

from the little i've seen of apostoli, i'm very impressed but jones too big and too fast imo. jones by ud.

 

Tough to call. Jones' speed could trouble anyone, but Apostoli might grind him down the way he did to Steele.

 

I would take Jones by unanimous decision. Too much speed and power.

 

Overlins movement was the blueprint to victory over Fred and Roy's a great mover.

 

Jones mid-round KO, I like Apostoli and his slick defensive moves but Jones would get off first and hurt him while being a very elusive target, too much speed, too much power

 

Given it was enough experience to beat James Toney you mean? His fight prior to Toney was at 160

 

He had quite a few fights at 168 though.

 

Yes but the 1 prior to that was at 160, most champs in history have many over the weight limit fights - Armstrong (only had 13 below the FW limit if memory serves me rightly), Greb, Walker, Toney.....

 

So? Sorry, I don´t get what´s your argument here? Do you really want to compare the experience of Jones at mw to that of Apostoli? Or their opposition?

 

Thats beside the point, your point was Jones isn't experienced enough to hang with Apostoli, despite the fact he was experienced enough to dominate Hopkins and Toney, and Mallinga during that period who was a top168lb contender

 

Dominating a novice Hopkins, a weight-drained Toney and a Malinga is something different to facing a guy who is at his very best and very experienced at the very top who knows every trick in the book. Apostoli would be head and shoulders above the Hopkins and Toney Jones fought.