why do so many chose nigel benn to beat RJJ

Yes he does matter and did matter back then. He had a win over Eubank so he was definitely worth looking into.

 

It's as simple as I told you, he was offered a career high payday just like Collins was and BOTH turned it down. Whether you want to believe it or not is your choice, I saw that interview and not a single person disagreed since THEY WERE the ones questioning him about his opponents.

 

Look man for Benn to earn a career high payday against RJJ, RJJ would have had to give Benn 80% of the purse because Benn made millions against Eubank in their second fight. That is why I dont believe that claim. What was RJJ biggest payday between 1993 and 1995 when Benn was a dangerous and credible opponent?

It was not until after 1996 when RJJ was starting to earn so serious chedder at LHW.

 

By the way I want to say that I am not calling you a liar because I believe you saw RJJ making that claim but trust me there is no way it could have been true.

 

Good example of the improving Benn...

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Later on in 1988, at the National Golden Gloves, Roy won his first three matches. The first one was a decision over Thomas Tate. He also scored a 3rd. round stoppage over defending National 165 pound Champion and Future NABF Champion Fabian Williams. Those victories set up a fight that someone should have taped for obvious reasons. The semifinal match was Roy Jones taking on Gerald McClellan. You would expect this fight to be very exciting. It was more than that. It was a WAR. One of the greatest examples of speed and power that I have seen in an amateur Boxing match. I remember that Roy was forced back to the ropes often in the fight but that what made the fight so thrilling was the way Roy would FURIOUSLY fight off the ropes with flurries. It was like watching two Olympic athletes fight for the Gold Medal or two guys going for the world professional championship.

Omaha World-Herald: "Two 1987 Champs, 156 pounder Roy L. Jones of Knoxville and 132 pound Donald Stokes of Louisiana, were eliminated last night.

Gerald McClellan of Milwaukee crowded Jones most of the first two rounds in pounding out a decision triumph. The 156 pound McClellan was there to slug with Jones from the opening bell, and carried the first round. Jones spent a lot of that time along the ropes.

Jones showed some movement in a fairly close second and then scored well in the early part of the third. McClellan was stronger at the finish when he again pounded Jones along the ropes and in a corner."


I saw Gerald a month later at Sugar Ray's training Camp in Maryland and he told me he wouldn't be able to spar for a while longer because his jaw was still hurting from the fight with Roy.




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Jones never saw anyone like Benn. Nor did he want to. Jones was openly afraid of McClellan, and Benn took all of G-man's best shots and then mauled him.

 

It would've been good.

 

Suppose

 

and yet was still KO'd.....so something must have worked lol

 

that's about right. would have played out exactly like the hall fight.

 

i'd favor a prime jones at 168 vs any fighter who has ever fought at that weight. benn was a good fighter but jones was on a completely different level.

 

Many people pick Benn to beat RJJ because he was a very, very bad man.

Jones was by far the better boxer, but Benn was just downright dangerous.

I'd have picked Jones to win if he had ever got in the ring with Benn. But of course he didn't. Just another American domestic level fighter who would never leave his own shores to prove his greatness.

 

I'm British and Benn was my favourite fighter growing up. I think at his best he was a truly great fighter, but I think prime RJJ dismantles him. Benn has a punchers chance but I don't see him landing easily, but I do see him being hit at will every time he forces an attack and RJJ was a banger at middle and super middle.

RJJ was simply a higher class of fighter than Benn, Eubank or any of our crop of Super Middles.