Is Hopkins really past it? Compubox perspective ~ Now with Roy Jones' latest stats!

Yeah. It's not that judges are using the stats... not at all... even Harold Lederman, the unoffical judge for HBO, aware of the stats, score rounds ignoring Compubox. It's just an extra info, but a pretty useful one if you know when and how to use.

 

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It's Compubox time again!

Again: it's just a statistic, hardly an info to judge a fight or fighter solely on it... but could be useful to see a statistic side of it and maybe find some interesting facts.



Early in the thread we made a conclusion that despite cutting each others' stats in the Hopkins-Calzaghe fight, the old fox' stats vs. Pavlik were just as good as back in the Tito days, meaning he still produced very good numbers despite his age.

This time, let's have a look at Roy Jones' latest stats alongside with his fight vs. Tito, the first Tarver fight and the Ruiz fight, so we can see a prime, a post-HW, a post KOs and the latest stats of the former P4P great.

Jones' number of punches thrown and landed: Ruiz 424/134, Tarver I 424/111, Tarver III 324/85, Tito 482/172, Calzaghe 475/159

-As you can see, Jones' stats were cut down after the KNOCKOUTS and not after moving down from HW. 400+ punches was the average of the prime Jones' in 12 round fights, he never was the Calzaghe type of busy fighter, just was more accurate and was caught with less punches. He threw the exact numbers vs. Ruiz and Tarver (I). The punches he took shows the difference: Jones was outlanded for the first time in the 1st Tarver fight, but still managed to pull it off...
-Roy Jones became guy shy as they say, and this is clear in the 3rd Tarver fight: he only threw 324 and landed just 85. Guess what, he lost that fight
-however, vs. Tito he did not only return to the 400+ category, but he threw more than vs. Ruiz, almost 500 punches, and landed 172, more than vs. Ruiz. Of course: pick a former WW, bring him out of a 2-year retirement, and you'll look good and land as many punches as you want - target practice! Well, here comes the shocker:
-Roy threw just as many punches vs. Calzaghe, a former SMW champ, the active and actual top P4P-er and a betting favorite. But Roy not only threw as many, but landed almost as many: 159 to be exact, mainly counter shots. Of course, as always, he was so badly outnumbered, that it didn't LOOK like he threw 475 and landed 159. But he did
-Roy threw AND landed more than vs. Ruiz, and this is even better: Roy threw and landed more than Bernard on Calzaghe: 475 to 468, 159 to 127! Roy was also more accurate than Hopkins, and landed close to the Tito and Ruiz percentages (32% vs. Ruiz, 36% vs. Tito, 33% vs. Calzaghe)
-as in the case of the Hopkins fight, Calzaghe landed the most punches on Jones ever (344/985, 35%). And as always, Joe's stats show how successfully Hopkins was able to cut down Joe's stats, as he was back at the close to 1000 category this time (and Hopkis was back at his own numbers after the Calzaghe fight)

-altogether with the stunning output of Calzaghe, gun shy Roy was still able to do his average of years back, and landed just 14 punches less than Kessler, meaning that Roy was the 2nd most succesful on the landing category in Calzaghe fights counted by Compubox
-stats show how the numbers were cut down after the KO losses and came back in the Tito and Calzaghe fights, were Roy did look more confident - in fact, despite the huge difference in quality and stlye between Calzaghe and Tito, Roy still managed to top the Ruiz average in both fights



These are just compubox stats, I don't want to make any conclusions, just making a simple comparison. Do what you like with the numbers. I just wanted to show you some interesting statistics, and IMO there are some...

 

It seems not too many are interested...

 

Should I do an analisys on Mosley's prime vs. late numbers?