He looked quite good I thought. Quite stiff to my eyes though and I didn't really see much of an x-factor though that's with very limited information to go off of. With the right promotional push and with his athletic abilities he'll definitely get at least a shot at a title some time in the next five years or so. I'd like to see how he progresses and I liked how he sat down on his punches in his debut but I feel there is still something distinctly "amateurish" about his style and that he lacks the kind of fluidity needed to be a top pro at the moment.
I thought he beat the Uzbek in his Olympic semi-final. I should qualify that statement by saying that by that stage of the tournament, I was extremely unhappy with some of the scoring so perhaps I wasn't being completely objective. One thing to know about Omari Jones is that he was 12 and 0 as a professional going into the Olympics. Next thing I know, they're ballyhooing his professional debut. By my reckoning, he's now 13 and 0 as a pro. Not 1 and 0. After losing in the Olympic semi-final, his amateur record was manipulated on Boxrec although you could see the missing fights if you went in through his opponents' records. Quite a bizarre occurrence I thought at the time & now it appears to be extended to his professional record. None of the foregoing is actually relevant to how good of a fighter he is & I'd say of the Americans, he's one of their best up & comers.
