Roy Jones Jr. vs. The NYC Cop

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  1. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    • Lou DiBella, who was a senior vice president at HBO, said WBC president Jose Sulaiman should be "embarrassed" for ranking Frazier #1. "It was disgraceful," DiBella said. "I'm sorry I had to put it on. It was mandatory. I can't tell Roy to give up his title. But the idea that Rick Frazier was #1 in the WBC and #3 in the WBA is ludicrous." Sulaiman later said, "I am embarrassed. I take full responsibility."
    • "It wasn't very satisfying," Jones said of his victory. "I don't pick these guys. He was the #1 contender. It's not my job to tell these people (sanctioning bodies) what to do."
     
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  2. jabber74

    jabber74 Active Member Full Member

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    Only repeating what I read in one of the magazines at the time. They were offering opponents and Roy and his camp turned them down. "These guys they wanted to fight were the biggest bums on the planet".
     
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  3. jabber74

    jabber74 Active Member Full Member

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    In any case, by the time Roy was fighting on a pay network like HBO, mismatches such as this should have been outlawed. Early in his career, padding the record is what almost all fighters do... but to put something like this on HBO, as a title fight no less, was criminal. It wasn't the first and will never be the last.

    Frazier must have been very good friends with Roy, asked him for a nice payday, and Roy gave it to him.
     
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