The chin of Roy Jones?

Always suspect, just never caught

 

It's hard to say. It may of been weakened by the Tarver and Johnson Kayos

 

Jones Jr's chin was like a pinata that was just too high for the neighborhood kids to reach, but soon enough, later on, after getting a bit taller, they were then able to.

 

The strange thing is he took massive shots from Toney, and didn't budge a bit

 

His chin was plenty good enough at his best. If it wasn't he wouldn't have got near as much done regardless of his other worldly talent.

 

I think his chin deteriorated drastically. By the end of his career he was falling to sleep with shots that looked like they had nothing on them.

 

He definitely was caught, he took (and walked into) rights from Hopkins and Toney. He was also caught hard with lefts from Tarver.

Coming down from HW really broke his body down.

 

‘Fans’ have to realise Jones had a decade on top of the P4P list, that’s longer than Mayweather
10 year prime, not many have a 10 year prime
Jones just got old
He was clearly not the same Boxer when he returned from heavyweight to outpointed Tarver-clearly

H left the magic up st heavyweight
And how many former middleweight champions ever won a heavyweight title?
Get a grasp on reality and his achievements, just staggering, and his performances questioned belief
We’ve never seen a Roy Jones jr before
Through 4 weight divisions his chin held up, isn’t the art of our sport to hit and not get hit?

 

Average - to below average chin.

 

Think he had a solid chin...till he was knocked out. Sometimes some fighters never recover (example I was surprised Wlad recovered if u recall he could barely get tapped a few fights after Sanders dropped him). Think it’s some sort of defense mechanism that’s hard to turn off once it starts.

 

Toney hit him with a right hand that would've knocked most guys out or at least down. And it was right on the chin. Toney had serious power back at SMW. It was during one of the middle rounds if I remember correctly.
Roy took it without even blinking.

 

nah he had a solid chin earlier on

 

His chin was probably decent coming up, but he was rarely hit flush

I think it was the combination of moving up/down in weight and maybe age that deteriorated his ability to hold a shot

It's easy to say now in hindsight, but Roy should of retired after beating Ruiz, or straight after the first Tarver fight.

It's a pity that many will remember him for the latter part of his career, while not really remembering the decade of dominance.

He definitely had the best prime I have witnessed in my 35 years and was the only modern fighter that many felt could challenge the likes of Ray Robbo, Greb and Armstrong as the GOAT.

However, I will say as other worldly as his talent was, he didn't always have great opposition in front of him.