Should Jones have done a Calzaghe...not given Tarver a rematch???

I dont think he shouldve bothered fighting Tarver in the first place.

 

no he should have, because the first was a close fight. So he had to fight Tarver again he's not a *****. But he should have taken the weight shift in mind.

 

He didn't plan to fight Tarver and had plans to move up to heavyweight for one last fight against Mike Tyson but all the talk from Tarver, media and people in general he thought he had to give Tarver a rematch to shut him up for good.

If he didn't fight him in a rematch he would have been bashed on for a while though in reality he didn't need to, but that's Roy Jones for you and people used to say he ducks everyone back then.

 

I remember Tarver was at the post fight press conference too.

Obviously Roy would have been better off without doing the rematch but what can you do? I wouldn't have minded either way if he choose to or not. Tarver lost a close but clear decision.

Not to mention Jones would have been retired by now :|

 

I agree :good

 

Not everyone.

 

i wouldnt have minded if he didnt

close but clear is good enough for me

wasnt pushed to see calzaghe hopkins again either, i thought it was close but clear for joe and hop just spoiled but i can see why opinion is split but the issue is hopkins knows he cant actually bear calzaghe skill for skill so rematch would be a mess again

 

The people spoke, they thought Tarver beat Jones.....and Jones I would suppose thought he lost to Tarver as well, thus he wanted to prove the naysayers and himself that he could beat Tarver.......thats why the rematch.


Well over 90% felt that Calzaghe clearly outworked Bernard Hopkins. Calzaghe knows he won clearly.....
.... and he can publicly deny it all he wants, but so does Hopkins know he lost to Calzaghe......


Thus, Jones did'nt have the option of doing a Calzaghe, because a "Calzaghe "is feeling secure in the belief that you beat your opponent!:hey

 

say what?

 

Calzaghe beating Hopkins was another close but clear decision for me. Both Hopkins and Tarver didn't do enough to earn the W and got swept in the final rounds IMO.

 

I think his career would have turned out a lot different had he either not fought Tarver in the first place or not given him a rematch. At the end of the first Tarver fight he mentioned that if he didn't get a Tyson fight he would quit. At that stage I'd like to have seen either.

 

He looked half dead when he scrasped that decision against Tarver, he shouldve never bothered making 175 again.

He shouldve stayed at heavyweight, maybe gone to cruiser and told Tarver to come up..