Prime RJ vs anybody all time H2H from 160-175

And this is the bottom line.

Roy never fought anyone anything as like as good Micheal Spinks at LHW, for example.

Jones isn't unique because he's modern. He's unique because he's Jones. Other eras have incomparble fighters too.

 

Thanks.

Burley is considered by some (not me I should add), including some that have seen him, as a fighter not unlike Jones in terms of reflexes.

Burley threw one punch at a time up at LHW and HW. His tactic at these weights was to slow the action way way down, to avoid the powerful punchers he was in with. Burley was a welterweight, you see, he had to adjust at this weight.

At WW and MW, Burley was often a different fighter. Archie Moore, who was destroyed by Burley at 160 called him a "human riveting gun" firing "hundreds of punches from every angle".

Burley is the smaller man in this fight. I think the aggressive fighter would turn up, but Burley would slow the action down upon tasting JOnes' power - Jones is naturally cautions, rightly here, there is nothing between them for power - and boxes his way to a tight decision. That's how I see it at 160.

 

No-one? Don't be ridiculous, that's hero worship not analysis.

I do believe he is the most pyhsically gifted fighter ever captured on film however.

 

I rate Jones INSIDE the top 20 fighters of all time, ever, and as you can see i'm as into the old school guys as the new school.

But there are other guys within that top 20 - and without for stylistic reasons - who would beat him. Similairly, because of his extraordinary physical gifts I have him beating a guy in my top 5 outside his best weight, Ezzard Charles.

But you really think he's unbeatable? Put him in with Bob Foster, hardest punching LHW of all time 10 times and you think he'd win ten?

The boxer THAT far ahead of his peers has never been born, i promise you. There is little separating the men in the top .1%, where Jones certainly belongs.

 

You are most welcome.

Check out Classic if learning more about the old School fighters.

 

Put it this way - pound for pound he's the best of the pay per view era. In terms of pure physical gifts he is the best ever seen on film.

Put him in any era and he'd be a dominant force and regarded as an ATG. He's the type guy that would split a series of five with anyone in the weight range you've mentioned. That is, nobody could fight him 5 times without losing at least once, and some all time great fighters would lose all five.

 

Good post and a fair point. I would just say that, in all fairness, Jones probably learned a great deal from Griffen I. That is he was a better fighter after it than before.