Roy Jones - Breaker of Chins

Hearns at WW and LMW. Robinson at WW is in there with a shout as well. His combinations were absolutely viscious.

 

Hands down.

One of the hardest blokes of the modern era.

 

I think also, he just didnt feel pain like other people do. Punches did not have the same impact on him.

In his 175 and up days, were he was still ranked and challenging for titles, he looked fat and out of shape.
Some fights he also didnt put up much of a resistence, just went for the "ride" like he said of the Jirov fight and he sleep walked much of the Briggs fight.

Not for a second questioning the man's heart but in his late career he didnt even seemed that focused anymore, just rocking up and fighting and he would be damned if anyone was going to stop him. Which is really a testement to his toughness that he rarely even looked like getting into trouble in a lot of these fights.

Very much a throwback fighter, didnt hardly watch tapes of his opponants and a lot of the time you could tell he hardly trained. Something like 144 fights in at least a dozen different countries, what a service to the sport.

 

I loved his comeback in the first John David Jackson fight.

He got the **** beat out of him for 8 rounds then got rocked early in the 9th,and when Jackson went in for the finish BANG.

A left hook from the bleachers completely turned the fight around and two knockdowns later and Castro had won an impossible victory and Jackson was no longer undefeated.

A classic.

 

No doubt. He came here towards the tail end of his career and fought a guy called Sebastian Rothman, a cruiserweight who was rather useful.

He absorbed Rothman's best shots and looked at him as if to say :"Is that all you've got, sonny?" He lost comprehensively on points, but man that was one tough Argentinian.