Yes. If he does not get flustered by RJJ's speed and sticks to jabbing and fundementals, he can make it a competitive fight. RJJ's competition at 175 was quite weak. I suspect RJJ will just be too quick and win a decision despite his fundemental flaws. RJJ close UD 15 though i give Loughran an outside chance of an upset.
The advantage in speed is too much for Loughran... Roy is all wrong for him, he had good footwork, so what ? He couldn´t punch and keep Roy out of him, Roy would just confuse him so much with those atypical angles from where he attacked. Roy had a very high workrate early in his career.
Roy Jones has become overrated at light heavyweight in my opinion. Tommy was an excellent, extremely experienced fighter at light heavyweight who gave Greb and Tunney terrific fights. I don’t think he was ever stopped at 175. It’s a very interesting match up.
Yes. I might even favor him. Loughran probably was the 175 GOAT when he moved to HW(resume not H2H). Loughran is the sort of Jimmy Young type who could outpoint anyone but was vulnerable to losing short close decisions to top fighters where the margin of error was low. This was more of a problem at HW. RJJs got a chance but I don't think he should be favored. RJJs probably isn't stopping Loughran. Before HW Loughran was stopped once when he was 18 years old. Loughran was stopped twice at HW and he avenged both of them. One of these came against Sharkey in his HW debut. Loughran never became HW champion but he was actually 5-1 against superheavyweights and went the distance with Carnera. At LHW Loughran lost most of his fights with Tunney,Greb and Stribling but he was really young and thats Tunney and Greb. Stribling was younger than Loughran and Loughran would avenge his Stribling losses when he was champ. So you can make the argument prime Loughran really beats anyone at LHW.
Roy has some clear advantages here but I would not rule out a Loughren win by TKO. 15 rounds is a long time for Roy to be in the ring with an all time great at 175 pounds.
The Legendary champion Tommy Loughran certainly has the tools to make things very interesting for the spectators and survive the distance, but to nullify Roy Jones Jr and pull any sort of victory? I just can't see it.
