Roy Jones Vs today's best fighters, across 6 divisions.

How about the HW division? Id favour Roy of the Ruiz fight to beat these heavies.

Arreola
Adamek
Peter
Byrd
Chambers
They were all high ranked .

 

Wladimir never looked better tbh. Smarter, faster and probably hits just as hard.

 

They may have been high ranked Dino, but they're all a steaming pile of dog**** :bananamaniac

 

Theres no doubt about that but Jones isn't a HW so it would be an impresive achievment.

 

Roy Jones Jr is a head to head monster he'd be favoured over practically everyone it's hard to pick against him during his prime years or even early on when he had a size and big power advantage over everyone.

He was one of those rare fighters who just looked unbeatable for so long, how much of this was due to his lack of quality opposition or him simply being on another level is impossible to gauge. He only took 2 calculated risks during his prime years against Toney and Ruiz, every other opponent he faced was simply outmatched.

Fact is rating Jones Jr ability and legacy should not be the difficult task it is. But he took the path of least resistance and chose to avoid or at least not chase the best at 168lbs and 175lbs and so we rarely saw him tested to gauge how good he really was. I think we only ever saw the best of Roy once in the rematch of Griffin, every other fight he was winning without having to push himself. Hate to see such talent not reach it's full potential.

Roy should have been the Ray Leonard or Ray Robinson of his era but he will not be remembered as fondly as those to ATG's and his true standing will always be up for debate.

 

It's difficult to gauge Roy at heavyweight because all we have to go on is the Ruiz fight.

Personally, I think there was a strong element of finding the right opponent in Ruiz, who lacked the speed, workrate and intensity to wear Roy down. Although Ruiz showed sneaky power at times, he wasn't a heavy-handed guy or a huge heavyweight.

Roy wasn't a big guy at all, even for a light-heavyweight. Even with the suspicious muscle mass gain for the Ruiz fight, there's only so much you can do with a frame that was never designed to carry any more than 175. He wasn't someone like a Moorer or a Spinks who could grow into a 210lbs heavyweight - he would always be physically limited as a heavyweight.

I don't fancy Jones' chances at all against either of the Klits. I'd favour him over the smaller heavyweights like Adamek, Haye and Chambers (if moved back up). He'd have a decent chance against Povetkin, but I think he'd really struggle against any good 230lbs+ heavyweight. The issue is that there are few of them around, and Pulev for example is still relatively unproven.

 

RJJ had amazing skills. He could do things that people could only do in computer games. He would beat everyone from 154-200. 50%-50% would be Mayweather, but thats down it not being RJJs natural weight and his lack of pro experience.

 

If the rules were enforced on Ruiz like they were when he fought Jones Ruiz would not beat one person on your list. Don't you find it kind of funny that was the only fight his holding was not allowed? :huh Very strange.

What Jones did to Ruiz is not very impressive given how the fight was officiated he just sat back and pot shotted anytime Ruiz got close the referee immediately separated them.

Jones beating Ruiz under those circumstances means nothing. Others had to deal with the Jab and grab with all the mauling, wrestling, clinching, grabbing, faking low blows, etc. Jones for some reason was spared all of that.

 

Adamek got slapped around and ultimately gifted against a one-handed Chambers.



Roy of 2003 would have made him look outright silly. This would be the funniest fight of them all.

 

Roy's best fights would be:

(1) Floyd
(2) Hopkins
(3) Ward
(4) Sergio

I don't think anything else would be even remotely competitive.

 

Reality check.

Got KTFO by Antonio Tarver and jourmeyman Johnson.

 

:deal