Who was the better "Fighter of the Decade": Manny Pacquiao(00s) or Roy Jones(90s)?

He wasn't fighting bums mate, he was a green fighter on the way up, and he didn't have a huge promoter throwing megabucks behind him and handpicking his every fight, so he fought whoever got put in front of him. He was an unknown fighter trying to make his way in the sport, and was then handed a chance vs Roy Jones out of the blue. In hindsight, it was a very good win because of what Hopkins went on to achieve later (including changing his style and reinventing himself in the late 90s/early 00s), but at that time Roy Jones beat an untried, untested, unproven fighter when it comes to world title level boxing.

 

I haven't seen the fight in a long time, dunno why I thought the KDs were in the same round. I don't carry around a scorecard for every fight I've ever seen in my backpocket, but I remember it clearly enough that to say "Hopkins won every second" other than the KDs is laughable, it was a far more hard-fought contest than that. I'll re-watch it and post my card, which will reflect how the fight actually went, unlike your pile of nonsense.

I will assume since you didn't address my other points, that you accept you were talking shite about Hopkins being better in 1993 than Barrera & Marquez were in the mid 2000s.

 

:huh How did I run from the thread?? I replied, then you replied, then I replied again. Where was this "run"? Yet another fail.

Ask yourself this: if I only knew about that fight from boxrec and hadn't seen it, then how could I make a mistake like thinking both KDs were in the same round, when they weren't? Boxrec lists the rounds that KDs occurred in, doesn't it? So if I had been using boxrec, I wouldn't have made that error. I simply haven't watched that fight in a long time, and did not remember that certain detail about it correctly.

And that error is far more understandable than your ludicrous claim that Hopkins won "every second" other than the KD rounds -

 

atsch Marquez even in 2004 was more proven than Hopkins was in 1993, by far. He was a world champion with some solid world-level wins, whereas Hopkins had been fighting journeymen with many losses in 10-rounders.

Marquez in 2008 and Barrera in 2003 are completely incomparable to the 1993 B-Hop, out of sight.

It's ridiculous to even suggest otherwise.

 

Irrelevant.

You said Toney is/was more rated/regarded than Barrera. I say that's BS, that despite my own opinion on the subject, more will favour Barrera.

 

You said Hopkins won "every second"... other than the 6 minutes which cover the 2 rounds he was dropped in.

"Every second".

That statement undoubtedly aligns the other 10 rounds with a Calzaghe-Lacy style ultra-dominant humiliation.

That is complete and utter bollocks, you were wrong and talking shite. :good