More tragic downfall: Roy Jones Jr. or Naseem Hamed?

Naz didn`t achieve much and then got exposed at the higher level but Jones got beat by lesser fighters than Barrera so I`d give Naz the slight edge.

 

Jones.

Naseem losing a fight, getting a win, then retiring is wayyy better then the way Roy's career went down.

 

Neither one had a "tragic" life or career. Tragic is dying with a bullet to the back of the head in a gutter in Ukraine; losing some fights because you got old is merely life.

 

Hamed just got fat.


Gotta go with him then.

 

Roy between them.

His career from 2005 onwards was sad.

 

It’s got to be Roy because he was the greater fighter so he fell further due to fighting way beyond when he should have been.
Hamed got out quickly and at the right time as he’d lost it.

 

Didn't achieve much ? he made 15 title defences i think that's a little unfair mate, i agree he didn't fight the cream of the crop. But he still beat some good fighters like Kelley, Vazquez, Ingle, McCullough, Medina.

But as for the topic i agree with everyone else that it's RJJ, he was P4P number 1 and was considered untouchable and unbeatable. He went from winning the Heavyweight title, and achieving something which hadn't been done in 106 years. To getting knocked out by Tarver and Johnson back to back that is quite a fall from grace.

 

Jones. Hamed wasn't losing to journeyman fighters that he would have easily dispatched in his prime.

 

Obviously Roy, he was the P4P King and he looked like he was on his way to becoming the Goat

 

If we're talking about boxing only, Hamed won his last fight and retired with money, health, and his life ahead of him. The tragedy in his life had nothing to do with boxing.

 

On 31 March 2006 Hamed pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court of dangerous driving in relation to a collision at Ringinglow Road in Sheffield on 2 May 2005, in which his McLaren-Mercedes SLR crossed a solid white line overtaking a Ford Mondeo and crashed head on into a Volkswagen Golf before hitting the Mondeo.[35] The Golf driver, Anthony Burgin, had fractures to "every major bone" and bruising to the brain; after multiple hospitalisations he was deemed unable ever to work again.[36] Burgin's wife was also injured; Hamed was unhurt.[37][15] On 12 May 2006 Hamed was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment and 4 years' disqualification from driving, after the court heard he had been trying to impress his passenger, businessman Asif Ayub.[37] The judge expressed astonishment that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency had refused "apparently on human rights grounds" to disclose Hamed's four previous speeding offences, including a one-year ban for driving a Porsche at 110 mph on the M1 in Derbyshire.[37]

 

That was tragic for Burgin, not for Khan. As the quote states, he was unhurt. Spending time in prison wasn't tragic; he deserved it.

 

Naz had one defeat hardly tragic

 

People would be talking about Jones being p4p #1 of all time if he didn't get splattered by Tarver. His loss, and subsequent set of embarrassing losses were far more tragic. The guy was the perfect example of not knowing when to quit.

Hamed was more of a side show in comparison if we're talking careers.