"Heart of a True Champion"???? I love how you keep changing this thread title to more and more delusional things. Roid Jones never had any heart. He was a Chinless, Heartless joke that is revered for what he could have done rather than what he did do. He refused to fight a lineal champion, he was never undisputed champion of any division, and he cherrypicked the easiest belts to take while avoiding punchers wherever he went. Wow, that was a lot of heart he showed in cherrypicking octupus John Ruiz who hadn't legitimately KOed anybody in years and even more championship guts when he promptly left the HW division to drop back down to LHW and get his Glass Jaw shattered by Tarver. Or what about when he was showing his "heart of a champion" while beating up and showboating on municipal workers and cabbies? Roid Jones is a Glass Jawed Joke and he proved that when he finally started fighting guys who could punch. ****, even guys who couldn't punch as evidenced by feather fisted Glen Johnson putting him in a mini-coma for ten minutes. What a disgrace.:roflatsch
RJJ: “You have to look at it like this. Superman had to gain a lot of weight to fight at heavyweight. I had to take off a lot of weight to go back down. That was all muscle. It took me a while to get back to where I feel good again. When I added all of that muscle and then had to lose it, I don’t think people were paying attention. I won the heavyweight title then came back to win the light heavyweight title. If you didn’t win the heavyweight title then go back down to win the light heavyweight title, then you didn’t do what Bob Fitzsimmons did.” RJJ: “I feel so good, but I haven’t told you all that, number one. I had to go through a phase where I had to do something for myself. After I won the heavyweight title I came back down and of course there were going to be consequences for that. Because I did something that someone doesn’t do every day. It had been 106 years since a former middleweight champion won the heavyweight title. To accomplish that feat, there is a price to pay when you do something historic. People don’t understand that. Look at Muhammad Ali. He was at the top but look at the price he has to pay now. He went so high to the top that no one knew the consequences he was going to have to pay. We have to pay a price for the things we do and a lot of times people don’t realize that. My Christian brothers and sisters know exactly what I am taking about… because if you don’t sacrifice, then you are wasting your time. I knew I was going to have to sacrifice and I paid the price. I am not sure if that was the sacrifice, but I feel like it was. Now I am back, my body is back to where I want it to be and I guarantee he is not going to make 12-rounds with me.”
Jones junior was a good fighter but he gets overrated at times because of his wins over a green Barrera. Morales also mopped the floor with him. I'm sure he wouldve lasted longer against Manny than Barrera did that's why I say he was good.
Oscar De La Hoya can kiss my ass. The Golden Boy. Guaranteed, I'd beat him and two or three more of those mother****ers in the same day. I am just what they think I'm not. I'm that three times. The night Marco Antonio Barrera got beaten by Junior Jones, I watched an HBO employee celebrate. He was yelling, "I told you! I told you! I can get anybody beat!" He didn't realize I caught him in the act. People can say whatever they want, but I saw it with my own eyes. They want your ass beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement. And excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and then tear your ass down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy. I give my roosters the best of food. I give them the best of care. I give them everything they want before I ask them to sacrifice. Get a rooster comfortable and he'll fight his ass off. That's all I ask of HBO. They just can't see that. I saw a lot of guys with egos. They would try to hide something that ain't there. Then I would tear their asses up and they weren't the same no more. Ego can take you down if you get caught up in the hype. If you're the champ, you're supposed to take whatever comes at you. If my opponents aren't good, it's not my fault. I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody. First time we'd play teams, guys would go by me and give me hell. Made me hustle twice as hard. As I got in the groove of it, these guys didn't get by me so easy. First time, yeah. Second time, maybe. Third time, it wasn't the same Roy Jones. Now they're saying, "Damn, you got so much better!" It made me see both sides. It taught me the difference between having the talent, being blessed, and working hard and not having the talent but having the guts and wanting to be the best. I could appreciate being at the top of my sport. At the time, I could be myself on the basketball court and know what would be coming at me in the ring. I know how that guy feels. I know what he's thinking. He ain't nobody, but he wants to make me look like a nobody. And that's what allows me to whup him so good. People can look at you however they want. You gotta look at you. When a rooster's got one eye, he becomes dangerous, because he knows every lick could be his last lick. So he puts everything he's got into that lick. Same with boxing. Every punch from a man with one eye is going to have kill in it. You better be careful.
The bolded above has already been proven as bull****. Jones weighed 193 for the Ruiz fight. At LHW he weighed in at 186 on the night of the fight. That is a seven pound difference, not 25 lbs of muscle as the old Roid Jones excuse goes. Look it up and realize that your hero wasn't weight drained, past his prime, or whatever else bull**** he and his fans concoct, he simply has a Fragile Glass Jaw. It is not up for debate.
A couple of my fav quotes I would like to share with you obv from the ATG Mr Roy Jones: God grab me by my hand and said, don't worry about it just go with it, don't be afraid of death. - I told you I have to tape up my hands when i sleep at night cos i'd be hitting the walls to fight somebody.
For a guy who constantly called out fighters for their perceived lack of heart, he sure did not have an overabundance of it himself. Hell of a talent but a bit of a jerk with delusions of grandeur that stole millions from his personal propaganda network(HBO).
Roy came into training camp weighing 192 and he kept going up since. He was actually 200 pounds when they weighed him properly for the Ruiz fight. If I showed you video proof that your above logic may be wrong will you admit you was wrong?
Why don't you take a break from sucking the nuts of your Glass Jawed hero and respond to the irrefutable facts that I have posted about him here. Particularly, explain the weight drain thing a bit more since that is the last thread that Glass Jaw Roy's nuthugger's cling to in trying to defend him and I have already destroyed that thesis from top to bottom.
He weighed in on the official scale at 193. That is how much he weighed for the fight because there would be little sense in him cutting weight for a division which has no ceiling. He is a Glass Jawed Joke and his career was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Get over it.