Why does Jones get so badly OUTCLASSED when he loses??

This is the second time we've seen this happen to him. He doesn't just get outworked or out-staminaed, it isn't just that his chin lets him down. The guy gets outright OUTCLASSED. He gets beaten to the jab, he gets blocked and countered, and gets outboxed from the center of the ring and outskilled on the inside.

I know he's nearing 40 now, but Calzaghe is only a couple of years behind. But even disregarding this fight, we saw almost the exact same pattern against Johnson several years earlier, at a time when Roy had been rated higher on P4P lists than ever before just a couple of fights earlier, and he was a major favorite to beat Johnson. Not only that, but Johnson was the same age as Roy and had been through the mill far more than Roy had. Johnson didn't simply knock him out, he actually outskilled him by a mile long before the KO punch landed. It's not that Roy didn't have what it took to beat him, he actually didn't know what to do against him. I've never seen another fighter get outclassed like that by Glen Johnson, no matter what their status at the time, before or since. The way Roy lost was totally inexcusable IMO, and he hasn't done jack to push for a rematch, or barely even spoken of it.

For a guy that so many people think was one of the best fighters ever, something just isn't right about the way he loses. At the same stages in their career, guys like Hopkins, Mosley, DeLaHoya, Winky, Casamayor, etc. have still been making interesting/competitive fights. They're not totally dumbfounded by anything they see, and they at least try to make adjustments, even if they lose decisively in the end. To me, Casamayor has been "shot" for far longer than Roy has, and yet still found a way to pull out his fight with Katsidis and gave Marquez (one of the most skilled fighters in the sport) a close fight until his aged legs gave out.

In a way, Roy reminds me of Tyson. He looks awesome when he wins or he gets crushed when he loses, but there isn't much in between.

 

No he hasn't, he was the top P4P rated fighter in the world in 2003 and his position at the top was more solid than it ever was. No one was claiming he was "shot" when they made him an 8-1 favorite to beat Johnson easily.

He was past his peak, yes, but NOT shot. Certainly, he was nowhere close to what Casamayor is now, and Casa isn't getting outclassed the way Roy was by Johnson, even when he loses.

 

Stop scratching your head and read my post then, because my whole post addresses this point. :nono