How would RJJ do against: Frankie Liles Steve Collins Nigel Benn Gerald McClellan Chong-Pal Park All at SMW.
Liles was a little too slow to be effective, Collins likewise. Park wouldn't do much to write home about. McClellan, and Benn, knock him out.
Big fan of RJJ and personally think he'd win every one of these fighters who are all great in their own respects!
He had the footwork and the reflexes, and Benn could be careless and leave himself open. I think Roy would have survived an early onslaught and then stopped him late.
At some point in 18 minutes, the fastest starter ever and most natural powerpuncher I've ever seen, Benn, catches up with him and catches him.
Benn had so much natural power that he could even knock you out on the way down from being knocked out himself!(see Logan fight) How do you beat this guy if you rely on reflexes for defense and don't have a great chin?
I am thoroughly convinced that Prime RJJ was the ultimate SMW: he would've destroy all of them. If he doesn't knock them out he certainly outpoints them.
I respect your opinion, but I don't agree. He wouldn't have been able to have walked through Roy's shots. Roy would have been firing back, not just trying to avoid Benn's shots.
By having blistering hand speed and power in each hand, aswell as great footwork. You're making a huge assumption that Benn would have landed clean. How many people landed clean on a 25 year old Roy Jones? Nigel had the power and heart, but he didn't have a great defence. I think Roy would have slowed him down and then taken him out.
Benn was very awkward to nail consistently due to his lateral upper body movement, ducking, weaving and crouching or bobbing and rolling off the ropes. However he would admittedly have to lead off in this one and not do all that stuff, more swarming. How many people did a 25 year old Roy Jones fight who remotely resembled Nigel Benn at his most aggressive? Benn threw right hands with as much power as any middleweight in history, if not more (he was ALL power - not accuracy, quickness and timing), only difference being that Benn's were untelegraphed, whereas other middleweights who hit especially hard all needed to load up on the right hand with backwards motion first, whereas Benn was forward motion only - that opening right hand on Barkley for instance or the right hands razor-reflexed Eubank caught with his granite jaw in the next fight, or the hook off the ropes that knocked out the seemingly unknockoutable Robbie Sims where he just turned into it in one forward motion... Sanderline Williams took more fast right hands (though not power-laced ones) against Benn than he did in the rest of his career combined, 20 rounds with Toney included.