He whooped james Toney, B-hop and Virgil Hill and people make excuses for those people. If he fought eubank, benn, nunn and dm, he would have beaten them and people would have made excuses for them too. His resume: Toney Ruiz B-hop Virgil Hill Tarver Mccallum Reggie Johnson Tate Mulinga woods gonzalez Yeah what nobodies all these beltholders are. Lol people who diss him know nothing about boxing. He's easily top 20 all times.
How so? Name 10 fighters you think were greater in H2H matchups. Without that bull**** of naming some jackoff from the 20's who wouldn't last ten minutes against any decent modern contender, please. I'll make it even easier. Name 5 fighters better p4p than RJJ Jr. I'm interested in hearing it.
let me fix that for you ******* Not above Mayweather, not above De La Hoya(prime undrained), not above pacquiao. The crash and burn in the latter part of his career puts him no higher than top 60. I know what you're thinking...a lot of fighters fall from grace towards the end of their careers, but Roy done enough in his prime to negate that. People forget how much of great fighter he was in his prime.
Maybe top 10 p4p based on his h2h abilities , definate top 20. He is so unorthodox and changes style not only fight on fight but round on round. He is a perfect athlete and a joy to watch hard to pick some one who beats him outright in his prime.
He belongs about where Bert Sugar put him and I am not a fan of Sugar but he had Jones around #80 or so. Jones simply does not have the resume to stack up with other legitimate ATG fighters. He did not take enough risks and fight everyone available to him.
Top 10 for sure, possibly 3. Its hard to picture any fighter all time beating Roy Jones Jr. in his prime.