Gerald McClellan vs Roy Jones Jr

The great fight that never happened.

I know McCellan had the height, speed and power to give Jones great difficulty. He had all the tools offensivley.

Don't discount Roy Jones`s power though. At `68 he could really crack. I don't know how well he could take Roy`s power. Jones chin was pretty good in the middleweight divisions. Ofcourse he didn't get hit often.

I do believe Jones would have his track shoes on at least early. His feet were so fast and his was such a great athlete. He may get Gerald reaching in and catch him with one of those lightening counters.

Could go either way. If Im pressed I gotta go with the more proven fighter Roy Jones by decision or late TKO.

 

Roy Jones jr, pretty easily. Yeah, really. How's Mclellan going to hit? He doesn't have a means of delivering punches that would work consistently on Jones.

 

Jones by UD or Jones by a bodyshot seems the most likely.
Or G-man lands a wild powershot with all his bodyweight behind it somewhere.(small chance though)

 

Different classes of fighter...Jones all the way

 

A lot of stock seems to be getting placed in Geralds three round (and from all accounts narrow) amateur win.

Jones improved **** loads from his debut and his blend of insane speed, thudding power, fast twitch reflexes and mobility spells big prfoblems for McClellan.

McClellan looked clueless at times when Nigel Benn began backing him up and defensively he was poor though his chin looked rock. Jones will definately hit McClellan and he was a better combination puncher than Benn, more accurate and more unpredictable.

I don't see how Gerald will catch Jones solid enough to get him out of there (which is the only way he could win imo) as Jones almost had unique defensive capabilities when at the top of his game. It's unfortunate that the fight didn't happen but from watching both guys extensively Jones looks on another level as a fighter and would win surprisingly easily.

 

McClellan does have stylistic adantages, with his range/power/speed/straight punches, in some ways though he's easy to hit and has stamina issues and can't fight inside too well.

Still he's never better the combination of speed/power/defence that Jones brought to the ring and not close. Toney easily got the better of him in sparring.

So it's an interesting one

Well I doubt it given Jackson went 12 with Tate who Jones took out in 2. Jones and McClellan were allot bigger than Jackson

That's not really how boxing works, if you punch and miss and get hit with a hellacious counter punch and keep doing the same thing you're going to get knocked out. Prime Jones will likely have a significantly better chin too. He took Sosa's punches who was the man Toney said hit him hardest. He took allot of bombs against Tarver in their first fight too.

 

I'd say Roy fairly early. He was blindingly fast at that weight .

 

Deal with it. Jones was a beast at 160 and 168 it's hard for people to choose against him because he just looked so amazing.

 

You know it breh.

Step your game up boy boy. You can't **** with Captain Hook.