If you are an RJJ fan or an RJJ critic, have a look...

Jones has a Glass Jaw and avoided fights his whole career. That "resume" is pure garbage.

 

Yes, Roy Jones Jr. is a great fighter, defintily one of the best ever.

Nope, his opponents are inferior to both and he didn´t take on his main rival at his best weight and there should have been even more fights against better opponents than he beat made happen. He could have a resume that would put him up there with guys like Walker, Fitzsimmons, Ross, Duran, Pep, Greb, Armstrong and so on. The fights didn´t get made sadly. He still became an atg.

Don´t think so. Make a thread on here Jones in his prime vs. god and it would be 50/50. He is both overrated by his fanboys and underrated by the students of the game due to his fanboys. Great fighter though.

 

I have already explained this. The "world champions" thing is a joke. There are 4 belts now. I asked last week how many linear, unified, or legit champions ie: THE Champion of that Division Roy had beat. The answer? Was one. Yes one fighter meets that criteria.

His resume is essentially Hopkins, Toney, and John Ruiz. When John Ruiz is on your "best wins" list your resume is a joke. There was only 1 champion in the old days not 4 so Roy's whole 15 beltholders crap is wothless.

Factor that in with the fights he avoided and his Glass Jaw and that tells the non nuthuggers a lot.

:smoke

 

I feel that Duran was over rated. As do many others..In fact Duran has slide down the rankings in RING top 100. At one point he was in the top five and now he is outside the top 10..I think as people really stop to look and think about Duran career its gets a little less impressive...Before his fight with Leonard not much on his resume, after Leonard he lost most of his big fights, thus Duran is over rated....

 

As I stated, Wlad lost 3 fights during the 10 year period.

But unfortunately for you, I guess...there is a way. I am not going to tally it, but it would not surprise me if Wlad lost fewer rounds than RJJ, it was even, or RJJ lost fewer rounds. But either way, the margin should be close. Wlad usually sweeps all his fights. And pretty soon Wlad's 10 year period won't include the Purrity stoppage.

 

Great post, but prepare for some backlash from the haters. :roll:

You haven't hilighted him, but I thought Lou del Valle was the WBA champion in that fight. Wasn't it a unification fight? :think

Also, Richard Hall held the "interim" WBA title.
:good

 

At MW, he beat the man who went on to become one of the greatest MW's in history.

At SMW, Toney was THE champ and P4P#1 according to many. Roy dominated him.

At LHW, where he spent the best part of his career, there was no single champion. The belts were splintered. HE was the one that beat all of the individual champs and unified.

You are basically criticizing him for not fighting himself!

 

Yes Toney was his one win against a legit champion. He did not fight the linear champion at 175 and a matter of fact 2 of the belts Roy had belonged to that fighter. Also, there was a lawsuit regarding the WBC belt which was handed to Roy. Do you remember that?

 

i knew it was just a matter of time.

 

Linear schminear. Shannon Briggs was linear HW champion. That doesn't make him any good.

Michalczewski got bounced all over the ring by JC Gonzalez, who Roy has a damn-near shut out victory over.