How do you feel about Roy jones?

What do you mean they meant nothing?

Roy was in his THIRD weight class looking to unify.

Are you telling me that a fight against Eubank was a bigger fight than against Virgil Hill?

 

I havent read what you wrote here other than how you wrote what Roys resume could have been. How is that a fact. Thats another bit of pwnage there for you

 

A Eubank-Jones fight would've showed us Eubank was serious about his comeback and generated interest! Sky and HBO would've paid Eubank to broadcast the fight, and Eubank would've paid Jones bigger than HBO alone paid him for his fights. It would've been boxing history.

 

I'm curious myself I couldn't really recall. I don't remember it being something really heavy myself, it was against Richard Hall if memory
serves.

 

Of course it was. Hill was a no-name outside diehard boxing fanatics, and held no title. Eubank/Jones at Wembley was mentioned for that April '98 date, but Jones was scared of looking worse against Eubank than Collins and Calzaghe did, with Eubank being more-suited to light-heavy as McGuigan always reminded the ProBox Screensport (that beamed to America) viewers back when Eubank was in his prime.

 

All the quotes and links have been posted on here numerous times, the last of which was about 3 months ago by Zod.

While Roy was preparing for the Griffin fight in Jan of 1997, he gave various interviews where he said he wanted a Virgil Hill fight afterwards. But then he went and blew it by acting stupid against Griffin. So he had to rematch him.

Then while Roy was preparing for the rematch, DM fought Hill and took his titles and Roy lost out.

At the time Roy fought Hill, yes Hill had nothing. But what I said was, Hill was in his sights before he'd lost to DM, and a potential fight with Hill was bigger than a fight with Eubank.

Then after the whole DM fiasco with the belts, he beat Del Valle for the WBA, and went on to beat Johnson to unify.

You can say whatever you want, but winning or defending a major belt at 175, took precedence over fighting Eubank at the time.

 

Or DOING worse (in Collins second fight case - Collins winning almost all rounds), rather than looking worse.

 

What are you talking about??

I didn't say that was a fact did I?

But what I've wrote about Jackson, Nunn and Eubank is all factual.

 

Chris Eubank in 1998? Are you serious?

SMH.

 

You've got no perspective.

Roy won the WBC belt, and then defended it against Griffin (that I don't agree with by the way, because Roch should never have been stripped after he'd beaten Nunn) and then had Hill in his sights.

Virgil Hill was a bigger fight than a Chris Eubank fight.

That's a fact.

He was the WBA and IBF champ at 175.

Roy wanted to beat Griffin to get to those belts.

Those were Roy's intentions from late 96 to early 97.

 

??

 

No one wanted to see that sh*t. The same people who lambasted Jones would've done the same for him "waiting on Eubank being washed up."

 

Again you're being ridiculous.


Hill wasn't a no name.


He was the WBA and IBF 175 champ.


So Roy's choices were:


Defend against Griffin, and then try and unify against Hill.

Or

Fight Eubank, who'd lost to Collins, and only wanted a payday, for NO TITLE.


Roy wasn't scared of Eubank, he had bigger fish to fry.

 

Exactly.

He would have been heavily criticised.

 

Lou Del Valle.

The hell with you IDIOTS. Not even worth with the effort of moving my fingers a centimetre.