Thread: Prime Mike McCallum vs Prime Roy Jones Jr

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i just cant see anyone beating a prime roy jones...
he was practically unstoppable.

Prime McCallum was Light Middle - but either way good as the Body snatcher was, Jones was better imo

McCallum had a hell of a chin he was like 40 wasn't he when he took a one sided beating off Jones and still managed to go 12 and he even took Jacksons best Mccallum was damn good but not quite good enough for Jones although he would make it tough for Jones.

Roy Jones Jr Vs Mike Mccallum Round 12


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Originally Posted by BIG H

Prime McCallum was Light Middle - but either way good as the Body snatcher was, Jones was better imo

Agreed. Jones' prime was at supermiddle/lightheavy, McCallum only made these weights well past his best. Pd for Pd at their best McCallum gives him a tough fight, as tough as any fight Jones had when he was at his best certainly.

jones jr to athletic for a prime McCallum
jones jr . could beat him in lght mddlwght
but McCallum aint no scrub he;ll make it difficult

Roy would beat McCallum in both thier primes. McCallum was good but Jones was great. Alot of people say the legends of the 80s like Hearns/Duran/Leonard/Hagler did not fight McCallum but he did not set it up well to fight them. After Curry, he lost his first fight at middleweight to Kalambay and that sort of took the air out of his momentum. And those guys always had each other to fight.

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Roy would beat McCallum in both thier primes. McCallum was good but Jones was great. Alot of people say the legends of the 80s like Hearns/Duran/Leonard/Hagler did not fight McCallum but he did not set it up well to fight them. After Curry, he lost his first fight at middleweight to Kalambay and that sort of took the air out of his momentum. And those guys always had each other to fight.

Yea that Kalambay fight set McCallum back and then when he finally beat him in the rematch it was too late to fight the big famous 4.

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Roy would beat McCallum in both thier primes. McCallum was good but Jones was great. Alot of people say the legends of the 80s like Hearns/Duran/Leonard/Hagler did not fight McCallum but he did not set it up well to fight them. After Curry, he lost his first fight at middleweight to Kalambay and that sort of took the air out of his momentum. And those guys always had each other to fight.

Yea that Kalambay fight set McCallum back and then when he finally beat him in the rematch it was too late to fight the big famous 4.

yep,, it would have been nice for him to fight one of them since he would have had a decent chance with any of them. Manny Steward said he would have been 50/50 to beat any of them. I read somewhere that he told Hagler at the Hall of Fame a few years back why he didn't fight him.. But to Hagler's defense, By the time McCallum moved up to middleweight Hagler had retired.

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Roy would beat McCallum in both thier primes. McCallum was good but Jones was great. Alot of people say the legends of the 80s like Hearns/Duran/Leonard/Hagler did not fight McCallum but he did not set it up well to fight them. After Curry, he lost his first fight at middleweight to Kalambay and that sort of took the air out of his momentum. And those guys always had each other to fight.

Yea that Kalambay fight set McCallum back and then when he finally beat him in the rematch it was too late to fight the big famous 4.

yep,, it would have been nice for him to fight one of them since he would have had a decent chance with any of them. Manny Steward said he would have been 50/50 to beat any of them. I read somewhere that he told Hagler at the Hall of Fame a few years back why he didn't fight him.. But to Hagler's defense, By the time McCallum moved up to middleweight Hagler had retired.

I think only one out of the famous 4 he could of beat was Duran.

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65

Roy would beat McCallum in both thier primes. McCallum was good but Jones was great. Alot of people say the legends of the 80s like Hearns/Duran/Leonard/Hagler did not fight McCallum but he did not set it up well to fight them. After Curry, he lost his first fight at middleweight to Kalambay and that sort of took the air out of his momentum. And those guys always had each other to fight.

Yea that Kalambay fight set McCallum back and then when he finally beat him in the rematch it was too late to fight the big famous 4.

yep,, it would have been nice for him to fight one of them since he would have had a decent chance with any of them. Manny Steward said he would have been 50/50 to beat any of them. I read somewhere that he told Hagler at the Hall of Fame a few years back why he didn't fight him.. But to Hagler's defense, By the time McCallum moved up to middleweight Hagler had retired.

I think only one out of the famous 4 he could of beat was Duran.

yep exactly, stylewise Duran would have lost, and McCallum always complained that Emanual Steward set up the Duran/Hearns fight after McCallum was Duran's mandatory. Duran was then stripped of his WBA 154 pound title, and he fought Hearns for Hearns' 154 pound WBC title. Although Duran would not have fought McCallum at that point even had the Hearns fight not happened, but since it did it made McCallum mad enough to leave Steward. But a look at McCallums career shows he always would get mad at his trainers and switch off.. Duran himself said later that he always wanted to fight Hearns since Hearns was in the same group as Leonard and Hagler. So Duran had a choice also and he chose to fight Tommy. McCallum I doubt would have had the chance to fight Duran anyway. He would have been fighting Sean Mannion in Oct. for the vacant title no matter what.