Roy Jones Jnr v Joe Calzaghe, Pre and Post September 2003

Who wins before September 2003 Calzaghe or Roy Jones Jnr ?

Who wins after September 2003 Calzaghe or Roy Jones Jnr ?

In Roy Jones Jnr's first fight after the BALCO scandal broke in September 2003, Roy Jones received a hard earned and extremely close decision over Antonio Tarver. That’s the fight in which Joe Calzaghe made the comment that Jones looked human for a change.
Pre September 2003, Roy Jones was 'superhuman', sub September 2003 Roy Jones was almost ordinary.
I am not saying there is a connection between BALCO and Roy, I will let other people decide that for themselves, but Roys decline coincided with BALCO being closed down.

Joe Calzaghe would have had his hands full with Roy Jones up until September 2003.

Joe Calzaghe beats Roy Jones any time after September 2003.

 

Six months after scaling 175 pounds, Roy Jones managed to put on 25 lbs of pure muscle to fight Ruiz for a version of the heavyweight crown{officially weighed in at 193, but some said he was 199}. He was well muscled, cut and chiseled to the max.
Roy Jones then had 8 months to return to his normal weight, you are not going to be weight drained fighting at your own weight and have 8 months to comeback down to it as well ?, Roy Jones was never the same boxer again, strange isnt it ?

 

Returning to his normal weight not an issue, putting on 25 lb of pure muscle and still being well defined, now thats impressive.
He must have eat a lot of steaks and did a lot of gym work.

 

Interesting

 

Another strange fact about Roy is he never fought outside the USA as a professional boxer, I wonder if this had anythink to do with him being robbed at the Olympic games ?.
Strange all the same ?, not much chance of Joe Calzaghe having a fight with Roy Jones in Wales, then was there.

 

Something else unusual about Roy, that an article on the net I read pointed out, for such a marvellous great boxer, it was very strange to see him go from so good to so ordinary overnight, the author said that other greats tended to decline slowly, like Ali for instance, some ex greats suffer a knockdown having competed well in the fight until that point or lose after been knocked down early in a fight, and their next fight they get back to near where they had been before, but with Roy Jones there was no gradual decline, he was a World beater one minute and ordinary the next, strange to say the least.