Which one was the biggest mistake made by these legendary fighters?

It was all a mistake.

 

Jones going back down to lightheavyweight or not retiring after the first Tarver fight....never the same again...lost all his confidence became a punching bad scared to take a punch and slip like and counter like he always did...better yet fighting on and taking loses to fighters he'dhave dominated in his prime

Ali fighting Holmes...man the closest i came to crying watching a sporting event...just sad straight up

Joe Louis fighting Marciano at 175 years old(eddie murphy voice coming to america)

 

vitali taking the fight on 2 weeks notice against a top fighter

 

JCC fighting ODLH with a 8 in cut suffered in training.

 

I stopped reading any of the options after I saw you list Jones as a "World HW Champion". He was not a World Champion. Never. Ever. He beat a fat, Feather Fisted slob for a trinket belt, a fat, Feather Fisted slob who was one of the worst beltholders in the history of the HW division. And actually, it was probably a wise idea that he ran from HW, otherwise he would have had to face his Mandatory who was none other than Vitali Klitschko. If you think Tarver and Feather Fisted Glen Johnson sparked that fraud, just imagine for a minute what would have happened had he fought Klitschko, Lewis, or even a shot Tyson. He might have been the highest profile fighter ever killed in the ring.

 

LMAO...we all know it was for a trinket...but there were far worse heavyweight titlists and champions than Ruiz i History...Carnera, Braddock, Hart, Pinklon Thomas to name a few...at least Ruiz was a mainstay and ranked most his time in his career...Fraud....

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Your avatar has & always will make me ill. I won't read any more of your threads until you change it. I say Jones though.

 

The World Champion was Lennox Lewis. He was the real deal. Roy was nothing but one more titleholder with a worthless trinket belt that wasn't worth the materials used to make it.

 

RJJ's decline was the most dramatic. He could have fought and decisioned Holyfield and retired and even Floyd would have to say that RJJ was better.

 

So decisioning a way over-the-hill Holyfield would have made Jones, a guy who never beat a lineal, unified, or undisputed Champion a greater fighter than Floyd?:roflatsch

 

No, that is not my opinion, that is a Fact. Lennox Lewis was the World Champion. He was #1, he was the guy that mattered. Roy did not beat him, he beat a fat, Feather Fisted joke whose best career moment was beating a completely shot Holyfield. Therefore, that makes him just another titleholder. If he wanted to be remembered as something more at HW he should have fought Lewis or Klitschko rather than running back to LHW just to have his Glass Jaw shattered there.

Jones never cared about being a true Champion, ever. He was more concerned with carefully manuevering his way through the divisions and cherrypicking vacant or trinket titles and then leaving for the next big cherrypick. He was and is a Glass Jawed Fraud.