Briedis all day. Dried Briedis weighs 200lbs. And max RJJ 193 lbs; and Briedis is a better boxer than John Ruiz. This is not a fair fight, the difference is in at least one category. Briedis losing to Usyk would beat RJJ.
Roy never fought a technician with really good power apart from Tarver and we all know how that one went. Even a 40-year-old, chubby McCallum made Roy look pedestrian just by jabbing him consistently. And that's without even mentioning the size difference, weight difference, and how Briedis carried the weight better. I got Briedis shattering Roy's chin via spectacular elbow.
Roy beats him down. I'm not getting all of the Briedis love on here. Am I missing something? What has he accomplished that would make folks think he would win all these hypothetical matchups?
Fair enough, but think it’s more that he underachieved and people are rating him based on his ability, he became champion at 32 so he didn’t have as long to build his legacy as others, had a fight with Usyk which could’ve gone either way, but is a loss on paper, then didn’t lose until recently against Opetaia when he was 37 and 39 and still gave him a good fight, if he’d moved up to heavyweight after that Usyk fight, I believe people would be viewing him very differently now, I believe he’d have beaten everyone except Usyk and maybe Fury, he dominated at Crusierweight, but was a sizeable favourite against everyone except Usyk, so he never got to show his full capability in his prime.
I like that after we asked if Shavers could beat Briedis, we immediately get Jones as a match up next. I'll take Briedis again. "Vai jums šovakar ir kādi attaisnojumi, Roy?"
No question Bredis had the power to put any version of RJJ's lights out, but I wonder if some posters have underestimated the sheer extent to which a prime RJJ would be faster. The discrepancy in speed would constitute a mismatch (specifically in speed only, not in the fight overall). A 192lbs RJJ hit hard enough to both stun and dissuade Ruiz to push forward with abandon, and Ruiz was bigger and surely more durable than Bredis. There's no way Bredis can outbox RJJ at range, it's whether he can walk through RJJ's punches to close the distance sufficiently to land his own. If he can, he will take RJJ out. Either RJJ by wide points decision or Bredis by come from behind KO, depending on how much pressure Bredis can effectively exert without taking too much damage himself. Close to 50/50 fight, imo.
Roy started as a Middleweight and was more of a natural super middleweight where Breidis is a guy that would have been a heavyweight in most era's and he was a highly decorated amateur before being a hell of a cruiserweight champion. Breidis does not have the name/popularity that Jones has but he is a beast of a fighter. Roy really only has a win over Ruiz in the higher weightclasses and Ruiz was a slow dude. Breidis has the athleticism and skill to beat an old Roy that is 30 plus pounds out of his natural weightclass.
I'm still not understanding all the Briedis love on here. Fine fighter, no doubt. 193 lb Jones beats him all day. I'd pick Jirov or cruiserweight Toney to beat him down, as well.
This. I get so tired of the old 'x fighter KOs Jones and shatters his glass jaw' argument. People forget that his chin only cracked aged 34 after nearly 50 fights and coming back down to light heavy. No chin issues at all prior to that. I take Jones operating at light heavy - or of the Ruiz fight - to win this one all day long.
I think it looks a lot like the Lebedev bout and Roy having minimal effectiveness. And being asked to absorb punishment to even stay in the bout.
