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

Roy pretty much beats them all (although Hopkins from 2006-2010 could cause an upset)

Well everyone up from 160-175. People tend to over rate Roys win over Ruiz so Cruiserweight would always be a problem for Roy

Marco Huck is an all aggression type of fighter, as limited as he is he could still land something that would knock Jones out

Denis Lebedev however was getting outclassed at times by a shot Jones so a prime version would win a comfortable UD

Yoan Pablo Hernandez would also give Roy an argument and possibly beat him

As far as the heavyweights go Jones would have been knocked out by any of the top level fighters today with the exception of Adamek

Its hard to judge him at the higher weights because he only had one fight past 175 at the time, if he had taken on the cruiserweights at the time then stepped up to heavyweight his legacy would have been much more impressive

 

Np m8,of all of this fighters i would really like to see roy vs hopkins when they were beasts. Hopkins wasnt experienced enough the first time they fought.
Except Dirrel and Mayweather, all of this fighters are just too slow,how can you hit lighting?

 

I thought Jones was after Holyfield?

 

Now THAT would have been special.

 

I guarantee you if he had fought Lennox instead of huggy, he would get a truckload of credit

 

He'd certainly have beaten all the fighters below super-middle.
Super middle Ward/Froch/Kessler/Bute would all have v.g chances of beating him
L/H Kovalev & Stephenson hit too hard for Jones
CRUISER Chakhiev & Jones would both have worn Jones down
HW K2 + Haye + Pulev + Price, would definitely beat him + several others like Fury, Povetkin etc would most likely have stop Jones too

 

Interesting stuff Loudon

However its very easy to claim you wanted a piece of somebody after the fact. In reality, Jones wouldnt dream of sharing a ring with Lennox Lewis. The mere idea is preposterous

And with regards to your last sentence, i afraid it matters very much. Whats the good in going up to beat on a big worthless lump of ****, which when you take away huggy bears only gameplan is exactly what youre left with

 

Slow plodding Froch, one dimensional kessler and no chin bute having a good chance to wear jones down?You must be crazy.
Kovalev is a good fighter but unproven,we need to see him against a great then we can discuss him,cause this is ridiculous. Same as stevenson,guy has one big win and everyone is on his nuts.
Ward is a different story cause his ring iq is very good but he is to slow for jones and his stamina is questionable.
Chakhiev hits hard and i like him as a fighter(saw him fighting live) but he fought b level fighters.I dont see him getting near jones same as guilermo,that guy is a walking punching bag,he plows forward with no regards of getting hit.
As i said about the hw,that is tricky cause of the power but Priceatsch and Fury?They are horrible fighters.

 

Actually it does matter. Ruiz had not had a KO in almost 5 years prior to the Jones fight he had no skills and a style that if a referee enforced the rules he would be worthless. Now, the rules thing isn't Jones fault as I am not sure why that is the one fight where the referee didn't allow Ruiz to use his illegal mauling, clinching, grabbing, wrestling, and faking low blows he was reduced to a flat footed plodder who stood in the center of the ring taking pot shots all night.

Ruiz was a handpicked fight just like 98% of Jones optional fights were. It was a trinket belt which Roy loved to collect. Lennox Lewis was THE Heavyweight champion. So, in reality it isn't even the same thing Fitzsimmons did atsch Also, when Spinks moved up he fought THE Heavyweight champion he didn't go after one of the trinket beltholders like Roy did.

So, yes there is a huge circumstantial difference. Roy took the path of least resistance his whole damn career.