Roy Levesta Jones, Jr. vs. Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán

Canelo stands no chances. He wouldnt be koed, though. I wouldnt favor many fighters over roy jones at lhw, let alone canelo who is not a lhw. But anyway, in lower weights I think jones wins the same way too.

I assume we are not talking about shot to pieces jones, btw. I talk about undefeated jones (without counting the DQ)

 

Roy jones had a glass chin, canelo knocks him out as he leaps in

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roid jones gets done how glen johnson did him lmao. I wonder what he liked more androstenedione or turinabol

 

roy jones ring IQ is stupidly high. Higher than canelo's by far. And canelo has a very high ring IQ himself.

 

You have no right to blast other fighters for using PEDs when your a Canelo fan.

 

Maybe can revisit in a couple years (or fights even, if we're lucky) but for now Roy Jones all day.

 

something that can get in your system from eating food, positive 1 time vs anabolic steroids that must be injected twice

 

Would have looked like a more competitive version of the Pazienza fight.

 

I’m not even a Jones fan, but he smacks Canelo around all day from all angles.

 

Canelita is too stationary, roy could just pop that jab all night if he wanted to or just pull another griffin 2 performance.

 

Canelo gets 12-0'd or stopped late. He'd have no working strategy. He'd try and come forward but that'd only lead to him getting countered shitless and badly hurt. He tries to counter, and he gets beaten to the punch and out boxed all night. He'd be so thoroughly outclassed that he wouldn't have any solution. Jones has also stopped an abundance of iron chins, so if he managed to stop Canelo, I wouldn't be that surprised.

I also hate this narrative that Jones relied on athleticism, or that his fundamentals were poor. Roy Jones Jr. is one of the most prolific ring general's boxing has ever seen, hence why he was able to dominant everybody so easily. Aside from this, he was also one of most creative counter-punchers and trap setters in his weight class's history. His feints were so sharp and precise that he had geniuses like Toney and Hopkins falling for them, and not only that, but he was doing it without setting things up with jab.

 

Prime for prime?
I’d lean towards Jones on points but who knows?!

If Steak-Nelo connects that chin … it’s night night for Captain Hook.

would have been a great match up!

 

Agreed. Canelo would find out early that the speed and counter punching would be too dangerous to open up. He would get 12-0'd because he would just run out of ideas. We know that Roy is going to be the boxer here while Canelo will have to track him down. I'm not sure if Canelo would ever just go for broke and really up his pace and take risks. Maybe he would take a few risks but I'm sure he would be countered and the left hook by Roy would be a big issue. Eventually I think they would have the unspoken Max Kellerman agreement thing where they both settle for a decision where Roy wins.