Why did Roy Jones Jr slow down in only a year?

Getting old over night isn't just a crazy saying...

 

Also Ruiz would be a lot slower moving than a prime Tarver. It would make the speed difference even more obvious comparitively.

But yeah, everyone gets old at some point.

 

-25 pounds, it's much easier to go up in weight, than it is to come down. He was old in the first tarver fight

 

He got caught roiding...



You must of all forgot!!


Ripped fuel baby!

 

Cutting weight like that in which he had to cut muscle basically ended Roy as an elite fighter.

 

He had almost 20 pounds of excess muscle put on himself for John Ruiz, and then he kept that weight on expecting a Tyson fight. Now imagine that: one moment you're being told you'll be fighting the biggest name in boxing for your biggest ever payday, and the next you're told you have to shed 20 pounds of muscle against someone called Antonio Tarver.

I bet that weight was a right ***** to get off.

 

because hes a ****ing idiot and thought he actually WAS superman.

 

he went dry on juice

 

He fought while severly dehydrated in the Tarver I fight, which would of meant his brain had less protection from Tarvers punches. Less brain fluid to cushion the impact of the blows.

He also lost the will to train hard and was cutting corners in camp

 

Age + the massive fluctuations in weight. A lot of figthers aren't the same after going way up in weight and coming back down in a short period.

Simples.

 

For as gOod and exciting that he was, he never did earn huge money for some reason

 

To be fair, he looked better in the second Tarver fight until the KO than he had in the first fight. By the time he fought Glen Johnson he was a shell.

There's obviously physical reasons why he declined, but psychologically he was never the same after getting knocked out.