Why did Roy jones only start fighting good fighters when he was old?

Completely I agree. Jones should of stepped up and fought:
Pudwill
McIntyre
Thornberry
Ashira
Sheika
Manfredo

 

Toney and Hopkins ring any bells? Locks for the HOF.......

 

Complete bull****!!!

Hopkins' reported amateur record is 95-4 He started boxing at age 10.... You know nothing.

 

I'm shocked this thread has even gone 2 pages! Terrible thread by a terrible poster! Forza is a joke as well

 

Bernard Hopkins, Sugar Boy Malinga, Thomas Tate, Vinny Paz (fresh off beating Roberto Duran twice and Lloyd Honeyghan), James Toney, Eric Lucas and Mike McCallum were all at least "good", and Toney was rated #2 P4P when Jones beat him.

By the time Jones came to prominence, Benn wasn't in the same weight class. After Jones moved up, Benn started to lose as soon as the fight became realistic.

Should Jones have fought some guys he didn't? Absolutely. But his level of 'ducking' wasn't any worse than Mayweather or Pacquiao or Leonard or most other superstars from the last 25 or so years.

 

Hopkins, Malinga, Tate, Toney and you left off Hill, Tarver, Griffin, Ruiz, R.Johnson

The Pazienza and Mccallum wins mean next to nothing though , as they were both way past their best when Jones fought them

 

Jones did Manfredo

 

And as far as Darius goes Roy had more belts so he should come to the champ not the other way round. Roy offered him 2 million and a HBO date but he refused.