Who do you think has the better LHW resume out of Jones and Hopkins?

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  1. STB

    STB #noexcuses Full Member

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    Pretty much everyone he beat at 175, was either a title holder, or had held/would hold a title at LHW. If you include the fights he had in his shot, later years, he fought

    Mike McCallum
    Reggie Johnson
    Julio Gonzalez
    Clinton Woods
    Montell Griffen
    Virgil Hill
    Antonio Tarver
    Glen Johnson
    Joe Calzaghe
    Jeff Lacy
    Bernard Hopkins

    Are ALL guys who held titles at 175 who Roy fought.

    Harding had a win over Tarver and Griffen.
    Otis Grant had been a title holder at MW.
    If you want to include a completely shot MW in Felix Trinidad, he beat him at 170.

    In the middle of his LHW reign he went up and won a title at HW.

    Does that list strike you as a guy who is "afraid" to fight guys?
     
  2. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    Hopkins beat the man who ruined Jones' legacy
     
  3. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Jones and it isn't even close.
     
  4. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Its getting close...both in 175 and ATG
     
  5. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Prime Jones beat Hop, and past it Jones beat Tarver. Tarver and Hop beat a past it Roy. :good They can't get dat, lmao.:lol:
     
  6. STB

    STB #noexcuses Full Member

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    So did Jones.
     
  7. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    So when was roy officially past it?
     
  8. STB

    STB #noexcuses Full Member

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    ...Also being beaten after 15 years,50 fights from MW to HW, doesnt "ruin" a legacy.
     
  9. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Before the first Tarver fight.
     
  10. bailey

    bailey Loyal Member Full Member

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    Lacy didnt hold a title at LHW.
    I do not get the hype for Griffin as other than a DQ win over Jones he didnt do much else at LHW.
    We know McCallum and Hill were not long clearly defeated before Jones fought them.

    I think Jones missing the relinquished WBA IBF LHW champ, WBO holder and fighter to beat stripped WBC champ, was the fight he missed.
    Michalczewski when they were both prime, but he also missed other top fighters like Erdei, Tiozzo, Nunn, Rocchigiani at LHW
     
  11. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    and when did it begin?
     
  12. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    Jones has the better resume at 175 than Hop. You can argue about losses at the time, who beat who, but you can't change boxing history. Jones lhw reume is clearly better than Hops.

    DM does not even factor in this argument, but that's how you're trained to flip it, alter, deflect, distort, and change the argument :lol:

    As usual you want to cloud things so that this somehow leads back to Calzaghe eventually.:rofl Calzaghe beat a shot Jones. Jones better resume at 175 than Cal and Hop.
     
  13. BlizzyBlizz

    BlizzyBlizz Loyal Member Full Member

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    The minute he had to lose the weight from the Ruiz fight.
     
  14. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    Get off that DM **** neither guy was willing to budge but the funny thing DM was calling out Jones but wanted him in Germany ..No one with any sense would fight in Germany why the hell did Roy have to.

    And Erdi and Tiozzo :lol:

    And the Rochi situation has been talked about over and over stop it his fight vs the WBC was more of a priority than a fight with Roy!
     
  15. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    i gotta make a follow-up thread guys, please vote.