Why was Roy Jones never a huge ppv star?

**** undercards & bad opponents the 168 class was weak.
(At least those Roy was willing to fight)

But mostly Garbage undercards.
Can only watch Derrick Gainer so many times.

 

lack of opponents and the fact he didn't have a major promoter hurt him i feel. those of you that don't live in the states need to understand that jones was never a big crossover star in the sporting world here. he had his most fame here after the ruiz victory. that fight did over 600K ppv buys. not bad, but not on de la hoya, tyson and mayweather level.

 

most likely the Ruiz fight.

 

602,000 vs ruiz

 

Not sure... I do know whatever it was I watched it.
Without knowing for sure ill say maybe Vs. Toney??

Anyone??? Ruiz maybe??

 

Agreed.

Lack of major promoter. Ditto for Shane.

 

the toney fight only had 300K buys.

 

Even though the Kevin Kelly bout was ****ing EPIC

 

Well he was in the same era as Oscar, Holyfield, Chavez, etc. and they had the big promotion and the big marketing ability.

Roy was in a crap division without a big promoter

 

He blew too many guys away. Hard to plunk down money for a foregone conclusion.

I'm sure he made plenty of money off his Reebok deal, though. Those commercials were everywhere.

 

yes, good point on him destroying guys. reebok? i think you mean jordan brand. i don't recall jones being with reebok.

 

Yeah but Tyson is a heavyweight and Floyd and Manny had Oscar as a dance partner.