Roy Jones Jr. the most talented fighter the last 30 years??

ok and do you have a better tread.
Ah yes...pac vs Maywheather or the opponents of Bute

Comeon

Jones deserves even more of this

 

Definitely, damn. Had he quit and retired after the Ruiz fight would his ranking be much higher then it is now knowing what we know?

 

*huh..?

 

Jones had everything a fighter would dream of having. Lightning fast hands along with power and quick reflexes. In his prime he couldn't be touched.
Shame that he didn't have the technical skills to back it up once he slowed down.

 

I would say Jones may have been the most physically gifted fighter of the past 30 years, but certainly nowhere close to being the most talented.

To say talented would be to equate the fighter with the total package of physical gifts and boxing skill.
Jones to me was'nt on that high plain level of great boxing skill.

 

I dont think so.
At the time of the Ruiz fight, Jones had'nt fought a real fighter in nearly 10 years, and in Ruiz he fought one of the worst Heavyweight champs in history, and Jones beat him by landing in nearly single digits in every round.
Against a mediocre Heavyweight champ, its not like Jones proved he could boxistically tee off on an average heavyweight when he's being overly cautious throwing very little and landing in single digits nearly every round.

Lets be real here, Tarver had been the best fighter Jones had fought since he had fought James Toney nearly a decade earlier......and Jones got beat all three times he faced Tarver imo.

 

How will his fight be remembered with John Ruiz ?

This may or may not be Ruiz dressed in lingerie

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He fought plenty of good fighters.

Take someone like Clinton Woods. He went on to be IBF champ and went 1-1-1 with Glen Johnson who is STILL one of the top guys up around 168/175.

Jones made him look like a club fighter.

 

He KO'd Griffin
Tarver is a C class fighter. He clearly got outworked by a weight drained Roy in the first fight. He gets all the credit in the world from me for KO'ing Roy in the 2nd, but Roy was clearly shot by the 3rd.

Between the time he fought Toney, he fought Montell Griffin, Virgil Hill, Reggie Johnson, and Eric Harding...all very credible opponents.

 

It was easy to look a millon dollars when you were fighting an off duty cop.

 

of the last 30 years? no lol

 

No, but most athletic, yes.

 

After the Toney fight, Jones fought alot of good to mediocre opposition.

None of the guys he fought between Toney and the Tarver fights had the talent or were even good enough to even beat the faded Jones that was KTFO by Glenn Johnson.

I'd classify Jeff Lacy as the same caliber fighter Jones was fighting before the Tarver trilogy.
Look at what a faded Jones did to Jeff Lacy? He dominated him.



Glen Johnson btw I'd classify as a hardworking bulldozing type of a workrate fighter that does'nt and never had the talent to take it to the next level. His resume speaks for itself. He was always short of beating even good opposition that was a little better talented than he was.

 

I'd like to know who at 160 and above had a better resume than RJJ during his peak ..You would have to go Heavy to compare and out side of that you woud have to go below 147 !


Funny that for all the people who say he fought cops ans **** not one can provide a fighter with his caliber of resume !

 

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