Is Roy Jones the hardest fighter of the modern era to properly appraise?

meh. you can always downplay someones career. jones dodged like most of the current champs (ehm pbf). thats why its nice to see champs who seem to want to fight the best, and prove their dominance rather than maintain it (pacqiou).

 

Who are you referring to in #2?

 

HArdest is McCallum. How do you discount his dominance..beating Jackson, Curry, Cervantes, Graham, Kalambay.

Unbelievable Technician, Tactician and perhaps the greatest body puncher there is. Great great beard as well

Prime Toney had a hard time against him as a senior citizen. Prime RJJ couldnt do **** aginst him either.

I say he beat both in his prime..and yet..who thinks of Mccallum as an ATG??
You mention him next to RJJ and people laugh..

Now thats one dude thats hard to appraise

 

McCallum never beat Cervantes.

 

Sorry to deviate from the point. Rjj aint hard to appraise. You look up the word Great and you'll see his name next to it

 

Mofo!!! :twisted: glad your back ...
this is what I get from not going to boxrec..swap Mccrory for him

 

Jones has a better resume than Pacquiao, so I don't understand your point. Pacquiao has beating 2 ATG to Jones 3 ATG, and take away those wins for each and Jones has beaten more champions and had less tuneups. Sure people love to say Jones fought public servants....but there are only two of those on his resume, and one them is a champion (Lineal at that).

 

Question before I answer. When did boxing become more of a business than a sport in your estimation? Or anyone's.....it happened in the 90's, just hard to pinpoint when.

 

Shouldn't you be taping mirrors to your shoes and walking through public areas...

my point is that since it is all subjective the whole idea of priasing a fighter isn't arguable.

....and come on. roy jones's late career?

 

Every fighter from that point on IMO is hard to rank. All have been subject to an entirely different sport than even the fighters in the 80's. Jones, Hopkins, Mayweather, etc. With all the money and politics involved, virtually no one has fought most of the great fighters in and around their weight classes. I would love to rank them entirely seperate....as it is, I don't like comparing pre 1980 era fighters fight post 1980 ones.

The ONLY fighter who fought a great number of great fighters is De La Hoya. And he gets criticized for it because he lost to a few of them (fought closely with all of them). Most fighters would have lost a few if they fought that caliber of fighter all the time.