https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Roy-Jones-Jr-among-the-top-names--Pound-for-pound-OAT

I answered this thread and stated that Jones was overrated in the 90`s and eventually got exposed, do you agree? [url]https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Roy-Jones-Jr-among-the-top-names-considered-in-the-Pound-for-pound-greatest-of-all-time-talks[/url]

 

Maybe I was slightly harsh.

 

Fine, I actually didn`t come up with this question on Quora.com I just noticed it as a sub heading and thought I`d post it here to get a response and throw in a few nuggets of my own, I do feel Roy is slightly overrated and there was great anser in my link from someone who pointed out Roy`s 1-2-3 combo`s weren`t as good as Robinson`s and Leonard`s because his first two punches were quicker than the third etc.

 

This was copied from someone else`s anwer to this question,
He's nearly as fast as anyone to ever do it(forget about finding someone to match him in the modern era at anywhere near the light heavyweight division); he has great-borderline HOF power in a counterpunch and very good power otherwise.Here's what keeps him from that upper echelon group, in my opinion: 1. he is a 1-2-3 fighter. This means that his 1-2 is hyper fast, but the 3rd punch slows way down(if he uses a 3rd punch at all). Most of the time, he only threw 1 punch at a time. Some fighters like Leonard, Ali, Robinson, etc. had the ability to put punches together, but some did not or the latter punches of some fighters were much slower than the first ones. This can be a huge problem when another fighter is a pure combination puncher. Just ask Calzaghe. Tarver was a good bit slower, but he was a combination puncher, as well. Jones could be outworked or countered easily.THIS REQUIRES COURAGE, AS YOU NEVER KNEW WHEN THE SPEEDY POWER PUNCH WAS COMING! That's probably why he did so well for so long; opponents were scared of him. It's the same thing with Archie Moore: whenever he fought a combination fighter that had speed or power, they would overwhelm him by the time the fight was over. He, like Jones, could be countered as well. Holmes and Mayweather, Jr. had this weakness, too. Teddy Atlas said that D'Amato always said, if Tyson fought Holmes, he'd have the opportunity to counter.2. Jones was a boxer-”counter”puncher. The boxer part requires reach from the boxer stance or, eventually, you will meet fighters that you can no longer outbox. Reach is invaluable when boxing from the boxer stance. Jones had little reach.3. He could employ defense, if he saw the need going into a fight--as he did with Trinidad[HUGE, HUGE PUNCHER]. However, most of the time, he was not really interested in defense and any head movement on his part was taunting or an attempt to set up a counterpunch.4. When fighters finally got the courage to attack Roy's 1-2-3 offense, counterpunching, and little defense style, we finally got to see that either he could not take a punch or he could only take an average power punch.These things together could spell DOOM for any fighter that had these flaws. AND, THEY WOULD ALSO SHOW UP IN WHAT TRANSPIRED DURING A BOXING CAREER.39 Views · [url]View Upvoters[/url] · Answer requested by [url]Justin Bolton[/url]

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Because he looked awful against Griffin the first they had even though he blew him out in 2 rounds in their rematch, he didn`t seem comfortable opening up a counter puncher, he preffered to counter punch himself, he also looked bad in the first Hopkins bout.