Roy Jones has a solid resume.

Maybe not at their best but it still would of been a huge fight that would of seen the winner receive more credit than what Jones got for his win in their first fight. Jones did great at 175 but the fact remains that he did not fight his biggest rival at the weight. Just like Calzaghe and Ottke should of been made, Jones v DM should of been made. Plus, Jones was in a position to MAKE these fights happen. Yet he didn't and that will unfortunately reflect on him. But his resume is still head and shoulders most of his contemporaries.

 

no doubt, it's a fine piece of history.

the first man since bob fitzsimmons to pull off such a feat.

 

:good

 

Yeah but when they are ATG fighters they should have more greats on their resume than Jones does. He could have fought more guys at the top level. He choose not to.

 

Roy is prolly my favorite all-time fighter but I do think he was on roids in his prime.

 

Except Calzaghe was not even a champion at 175 lbs (his second weight).

 

Beat the man that beat the man. First ever ring champion at 168 and 175 respectively. Whether you respect The Ring's rating's or not is up to you but most people usually go by them.

 

DM wasn't leaving Germany, and RJJ at the peak of his career was not going to go to Germany. In any case One of Jones easy works beat him anyways.

The only fights I believe could've been made, given what occurred, given where Jones was at in his career, and given the context was --

The B-Hop rematch: Which didn't happen on the part of both fighters ego. B-Hop should've took the 60/40, he loss their first fight and Jones was the draw at the time. But Hops refused and talked **** and then Jones just went off on nonsense. They were just to damn egotistical.

Benn: HBO came to Benn with an offer... he declined, the proof is in a youtube video of a pre-interview before he destroyed some guy. Perhaps Benn wanted more money, perhaps it wasn't worth the risk -- I do not know. I believe Benn did want the fight at sometime -- there is a vid where they ask him about it and he said he would love to fight Jones, although it would be some challenge.

I don't know much about Steve Collins... and Nunn got beat by Toney and didn't do anything after that really, to be honest.

 

Agreed.

Woods' biggest achievement was getting a very close, questionable decision over Glen Johnson in England, and it took him three fights just to improve enough to do that. After that, he was completely toyed with by Tarver, who was himself then completely toyed with by Dawson.

That Woods could be considered among Roy's top 5 or 6 wins shows what mediocre quality the rest of his opposition was.

 

From what i've heard on here (not the most reliable source, I know) Jones didn't even want DM's name mentioned on any of his fights. DM had even offered to travel to the states to make the fight.

Hopkins should of conceded to a lesser purse as he was the one that was looking for revenge and he was fighting the top dog at the time. Had Jones really wanted to call Hopkins bluff or whatever he should of told Hopkins that he could either have a 50/50 split at 175 or he could take the 60/40 split at 168, one or the other.

I believe that Jones and McClellend were lined up for a megafight at 168 after the G-Man/Benn fight but obviously that could never materialise. Benn apparently refused to fight Jones afterwards due to Jones being very close friends with Gerald and how Benn felt that it would be too personal for Jones.

Collins would of fought Jones no problem anywhere but only for the right money. I get the feeling that Jones didn't want to offer Collins anywhere near what Collins felt he deserved. Not a huge threat to Jones but Collins would of been a decent scalp on his resume post Eubank/Benn wins.

 

That, and Roy was asking for somewhere between 50 and 100 million for the fight. atsch