Lennox Lewis retired rather than fight Roy Jones :rofl:rofl. The fanboys have gone off the deep end :roflatsch.
Why didnt Lewis fight jones Yes, he looked washed up and got absolutely worked over vs vit, but then so does everyone lol I think prime forgive lewis beats vitali, but I think maybe UD And they are the 2 best HW of all time IMO Jones would have been easy work for Lewis
There is a big difference between demanding realistic purses and demanding $100m. All of Jones's ppv fights flopped until he faced Ruiz. Some of his fights did as low as 50k(Griffin II) Jones was never really a draw, with the exception of Ruiz, Tarver II and Tarver III, all of his ppv fights did poor - ok numbers. You have to be a massive draw to expect massive purses DOPE ON A ROPE; How Mike Tyson spent over $300m to become bankrupt. 2003 > August > 4 Jones agree to fight Tarver instead. During the build up to the Tarver fight he would admit that Tyson was waiting for him and he would not be ready to fight Tyson until next year Roy risks his title for Pounds 100m:huh Tyson tilt After the Tarver I fight the Tyson fight was put on the table again: Jones-Tyson matchup could become reality By Dan Rafael, USA TODAY He would fight Tarver again Take a look at Jones's resume. Where are the massive punchers? Do you think it's just bad luck that he never faced ANY of them?
Roy Jones Junior is one of the best fighters I have ever seen. Sublime skills and ability. I do wish he would retire now, as he is losing to fighters that he would have toyed with in his prime.
Roy was great back in the day..... The ring work, the crowd work it was just great:good Now, not so greatatsch :smoke
holy ****!! this might be the greatest post ever on these boards. everyone take notice, the fact master has spoken! pretty soon we'll have rico spad complaining about people that just talk about chins.
Interview with Thomas Hauser, in August 2003. As for Roy Jones, Lennox says flatly, "When fighting Roy was brought to my attention, I could see that it was a big-money fight but I wasn't serious about it. It wouldn't be good for either one of us, given where we are and what we've accomplished in boxing. If Roy runs away from me all night, it's a boring fight. If he doesn't, he gets hurt. The only way either of us would win is economically, and neither of us needs the money."
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 if you look at the second article, lewis said he'd rather face vitali in a rematch than jones. the first article talks about the possibility of a jones-lewis fight. no one is saying that lewis ducked jones but it would have put him in a no win situation except financially. if lewis wins, he was supposed to; and if he lost, it'd be embarrassing to lose to someone that he held a huge size advantage over. btw, the fact that this topic is even being talked about or that this fight was even considered show how great jones was.
Nice links Zod! Thanks for the info. My only question now, is did Lewis decide to retire before or after Jones decided to move back down to LHW?
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2003-07-02-notebook_x.htm lewis decided in july '03 he wanted a vitali rematch and then jones fought tarver in nov '03. lewis officially retired in feb '04.
Kmac still butthurt after all of the schoolings but he wont be able to show where I havent used facts, which is why he has taken such schoolings
I think i just feel sorry for you because you take things so seriously on here, bailey my advice to you is join a sporting club - any one - and a social one while you are at it if you don't stop living through the achievements of your sporting heroes you're going to have some dark days ahead build yourself up for a change. you need it