Roy Jones -The Greatest Boxer in the World?" (Documentary)

Bored .... Bored Roy is anything but boring .... You musta forgot mate !

 

Wow! This is the show my dad and his mate showed me as a kid that got me hooked!

A good balanced view. Jones is probably the best fighter I've ever seen on film but he doesn't rank in my top 50.

Did have that big win over Toney, but with even 2 out of Eubank, Collins and Benn his ring record would be much stronger. As it stands, he still has a solid resume (blasting of Tate was uber impressive, and had Malinga and B-Hop at 160, Hill at 175 and a few crusty greats) but there were some truly dreadful opponents in there (especially at 175) that, if he'd blasted I'd say 'fair enough' but he frustratingly carried too many of them for my liking. I also don't mistake aesthetically pleasing for 'impressive'. As breathtaking a win the Pazienza fight is, Vinny Paz? At super middle? It's as over-inflated a victory as Floyds over Gatti IMO.

Both the finish of the first fight and the first round of the rematch against Griffin showed that for all the speculation of being badly affected by the trauma his good friend G-Man went through, Roy was just the kinda' guy who liked to coast. When he wanted to turn it on he could, and I think there's a post-fight interview where he says something to the same degree.

Abrams was spot on where he said Roy would at least give the greats trouble. Against Foster, not IMO, but Johnson, Charles, Moore? He has a very good shout in all of 'em IMO (but Moore would be most likely to feign Roy into the positions Jones was so great at getting people into)

Jones was undoubtedly a great fighter, and has a few scalps that really proved he was of that upper echelon of greats. But too much fluff and a shocking fall from grace (particularly hard for me to stomach) mean he loses out on the top end of longevity (may have been P4P no.1 for years but lacked a big workrate) when evaluating him as a whole, and there have been Middles of a similar size who have risen through to heavy (through 'great' 175lb tenures) and beaten better, and more, Heavyweights.

Roy was never the HW champ' IMO. On a 'lineal' claim basis, he was never the light heavyweight champ' but at one point he surpassed Dariusz IMO, due to them not fighting each other but Roy being better. Just as Charles was never the LHW champ', Roy was the default no.1 in the division IMO.

The fight should've happened, but even with an amazing win over Michelewski (spelling?!) it'd not be a career defining win. He was a solid but unspectacular fighter IMO.

Good find Mand', and for the record Jones would've wrecked Collins

 

Good stuff Mandana. A treat I'll watch later today:happy

 

Great find, thanks for posting.

Was this on national British tv??

 

Think it was Sky, I watched it on video the week it was on though.

 

What year do you think it was broadcast Flea?:think

 

I was already a bit of a Naz fan....EDIT; Must've been 2000. Checked as I though Griffin II was '99...it was '97!!!

It said his most recent defence was Telesco at the end :good I never watched it past Griffin II at the time, my Dads mate had got his point across by then.