Prime Roy jones Jr vs Bivol : who wins?

Yes you definitely are missing something.

Jones had zero fundamentals ?

He dominated his division in the Seoul Olympics and everybody, including his opponent, believes he was robbed of a gold medal.

Turning pro, he, for all practical purposes went 49-0 winning titles in Middlewt, Super middlewt, LHWt and heavyweight, defeating four or five ATGs in the process.

He could have retired, at 35 with only a questionable DQ to blemish is record, a blemish he banished with a vengeance, scoring a first round KO over Griffin.

(IMO, he could have ended many of his fights much earlier than he did. In fact, a good number of his opponents, he could have stopped in any round he chose)

Had he retired after Ruiz, or even Tarver 1, he would be in a lot of folks' top ten list.

Jones had zero fundamentals ?

He was unconventional and did rely on the gifts he had, but he's very clearly and ATG, as other ATG victims BHOP, Toney, McCallum, Hill etc could explain to you.

Like I said, Bivol is very good, even great, but Roy was better.

 

Bivol is too pillow fisted for a generational talent like RJJ.

 

Funny

 

Prime RJJ was the closest thing to unbeatable that I've seen in a boxing ring.

 

Now, BETERBIEV vs Jones might be a different story.

 

The disprespect of near peak RJJ (175 lbs) is becoming criminal.
RJJ makes Bivol look like a nobody and everyone would complain he fought nobody.
Are all the haters of RJJ only newbies (sans Zakman) and never saw his peak/prime?
PEAK RJJ was in the argument for da GOAT, like MJ, Woods, level.

 

Two points:

The Roy who lost to Calzaghe was well past prime.

I don't think Bivol has no chance.
Somebody that good ALWAYS has a chance.

But watch Roy's LHW fights.

Bivol has a small chance.

 

Fair point

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Has RJJ ever fight against an eastern europe style boxer??