Jones should have fought 7 Rounds hard

I don't think it was a choice.

 

Easier said than done. What if he fought hard but fropped a round or two in between.

 

he was getting the **** beat out of him. try it sometime. its disheartening to land flush rights on a guy who walks right through them

 

i agree. it was frustrating watching him appear to not really try from i'd say the 2nd-7th rds or so

 

As soon as Jones put his hand out to hold Cal off, and didn't do anything...Joe knew he had it in the bag. Jone's wasn't into banging.

He was not measureing. He was just trying not to get hit, and he'd not been hit real hard yet.

 

He would have been knocked the **** out, he dosen't have the stamina-conditioning jc has:-(

 

Jones acted like he had all the time in the world to **** around early on in that fight - and this is after all his study, experience, planning, ect. He must have wanted to lose the way he acted. The inevitability of it all was mind numbing.

 

Alot of people off the Trinidad fight thought Jones had it in him to beat Joe, or at least make it competitive.......

.......and when you really analyze and pay attention to both the Trinidad and Calzaghe fights for Jones......the first half were pretty much replicas.....both Trinidad and Calzaghe plain outworked Jones.

Yes, believe it, Trinidad actually outworked Jones through the first half of the fight.....

......the end difference however is that Trinidad did'nt have the physical size to impose himself on Jones the way Calzaghe did, Trinidad fizzled during the latter half because he was punching at a much bigger man.

My point being is that knowing that Calzaghe is a volume puncher, I believe it was pretty elementary that Calzaghe was easily going to easily manuever and handle Jones at his leisure.....if Trinidad being smaller could do it, surely Calzaghe with more dimensions to his game would easily duplicate and then some.


Jones blew it however.......his one chance to win came in the first round. Calzaghe was legitly hurt and if Jones could have found a way to land 3 or 4 clean shots in.....he may have ended it early.

 

Right.

So many times boxing fans say things like Why didn't he do anything? as if a fighter is intentionally choosing to put on a lackluster performance.

Many times, the fighters is trying to put forth his best effort, but the opponent prevents him from doing what he wants to do.

I think Roy was trying to be Roy Jones in there, but even with his best efforts, Calzaghe was beating him to the punch, and was too fast and too skilled for Roy, even though Roy was probably giving his all.

To discount a win like this is to minimize the performance of the winner. Calzaghe PREVENTED Roy from being effect, even though Roy probably tried like hell.

 

i didint see any of roy's fights after the johnon loss. no interest. after last night it was sad to see him lose the way he did. he had non of what he once had. his punches looked so slow in the ring. his accuracy was off and if he tried hard for 7 rounds he would have been looking up at the lights after 5.

 

Hmmmm, just goes to show that each one of us see's things a little different......
......I actually thought that Jones speed, especially through the early rounds was a tad faster than Calzaghe's.

.....predictably, the difference in the fight was energy that Calzaghe could sustain, and Jones could not.

When Jones could gather the energy, he did let his hands go......but those instances we're to far between as Joe was suffocating him with volume.

 

Jones should've stopped tricking us into wasting our money on that sorry ass pay per view!

 

He was fighting hard, against somebody much, much better.