Well I hope it does after Calzaghe pounds on him into submission. Too many people letting the Hopkins fight give them hope, but Hopkins and Roy are 2 different people. This fight reminds of Lewis/Tyson, when all the Tyson fans(i'm a Tyson fan myself) were still hoping for Tyson to pull it off but didn't look at the obvious that Tyson had deterioted bad from all the yrs. of inactivity,poor training habits, and fast life livin had caught up to him. The same situation with Roy Jones, and even worse because Roy's chin has been fragile and being that he relied primiarly on just his speed, he's a dead man walking fighting somebody like Calzaghe.
His world title career ended in 2004-5. It's 2008. He should have retired after the Johnson fight, there's no glory in predicting his imminent end now.
I'd like to see Roy give a good showing of himself. He's one of the ATGs and is a very cool and gracious guy to boot. But I don't like the way he looks in those 24/7 specials. He comes across as a guy who's just happy to be there, without the fire that Hop showed in the build up to Pav. His face shows a lot of age. He looks tired. Who knows? He could come out blazing and fool me. I hope so, because he's gonna need his A-game to handle Calzaghe, who always shows up to win. It's gonna be a pressure fight. The question is: Does Roy have enough left in the tank to foil what every other fighter (including Hop) has failed to do?
Nope. He should have retired exactly five years back from tomorrow night. November 8th, 2003. He'd done it all by then and I wouldn't have needed a poll to ask who was the best of this generation.
Roy's career will end tomorrow, he'll retire for 3 months after defeating Calzaghe, then come back for a summer 09 bout against B-Hop
You are correct. In an ideal world, he should have retired then. But in reality, he should have quit after Johnson, by which time it was painfully obvious he had lost it and he was not going to regain it.