How do you feel about Roy jones?

Yeah...and we're laughing at you for thinking he had to fight any other HW to prove anything . BTW he signed a deal to fight Holyfield.

 

He's dug himself a hole, so he's has had to try and find some fighters that have either equal, or more credentials than Roy. But it won't make any difference.

He can't take back what he's said.

"Roy shouldn't be classed as an ATG."

He's a joker!

 

Exactly.

If a 43 year old Hop could drop him, and a near 40 year old Roy could drop him, who hadn't won at elite level for 5 years, then what would a prime CW have done to him?

 

Ruiz gave many HWs all they could handle, including Holyfield..

That didn't stop Roy from wiping the floor with him.:deal

 

Ruiz wasn't hand picked for the millionth time!

We've seen links of Roy pursuing Tyson and Lewis, and Alton Merkerson has said that he kept his Ruiz physique for a while in the hope of getting other HW fights.

But Merk was lying, and you're right?

 

Calzaghe was dropped and hurt multiple times in his career... He didn't have a Vitali chin, I believe we would have seen him stopped had he kept fighting.

 

Ha!

Your whole "Roy didn't want to have other fights at HW" theory is based solely on the fact that he didn't have any more fights there.

Brilliant!

 

Yeah, glass jaw Roy never wanted any high risks fights, so at 35, after having 50 fights, he decided to go up and fight a top 5 HW.

A 35 year old glass jawed LHW Vs a HW who dropped Holy =

A NO RISK FIGHT!

You're a clown!

Roy would have made more money against the fighters you mentioned. I don't care. It doesn't make any difference to me. The point is, you keep saying that he had no intentions of fighting at HW again, which isn't true.

 

I think it would have been a certainty.

 

I don't see why he would have left the weight on for so long if he had no intetntions of fighting there again...

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2003-03-18-jones_x.htm

By Dan Rafael, USA TODAY
In 1998, Roy Jones Jr. visited then-heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in Atlanta, where they had dinner. Jones, the light heavyweight champ, was there to gauge Holyfield's interest in fighting him. Holyfield declined the challenge, telling Jones he respected him as a great fighter but that he had little to gain by doing the fight.

Oh that Roy. Always so scared

 

The people speaking against Roy in this thread are completely incapable of giving him the benefit of the doubt in any situation..

They will probably say the dinner with Holyfield was all for show.

 

first off, vitali was not the mandatory when jones gave up the title, ruiz was. ruiz beat rahman for the wba interim belt and jones would have had to defend vs ruiz to keep the belt. it's obvious don king had control of the wba belt at the time. jones wanted the sanders fight because he wanted the wbo belt in a unification but the wbo came out and said they would not sanction the fight so jones backed out of talks. no one is accusing lewis of ducking jones but there were talks after the vitali fight. see below. sorry to contradict your incredible gift of revisionist history.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2003-06-19-lewis-jones_x.htm
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2003-07-02-notebook_x.htm

 

hey ******, So you think Evander was ducking Glass Jaw Roy to fight Lennox Lewis? :roflatsch

Are you that ******ed? Seriously? Holyfield wasn't going to get anywhere near the money fighting Jones as he was Lennox. Hell, Roy had a few PPV's on HBO that only sold 90k buys in that time frame

There was no money in fighting Jones. Why would he do that especially since Roy jerked around Buster Douglas for almost a year?