What is the greatest achievement of Roy Jones Jr's Career?

Roy Jones beat Jeff Lacy last night with ease basically, but whilst he was fighting I got thinking about this. The commentators said that great fights make great fighters and gave the examples of Leonard having Hearns and Hagler and Ali having Frazier but Roy Jones never really had that career defining moment where he had to go to a dark place in a fight and come out fighting and ultimately winning! A lot of Jones fans, me included will say it wasn't really his fault that he was too good for his own good and he didn't have anyone along the lines of a Hagler or Hearns to test him, but it doesn't change the fact that he never had that moment in his prime.

So I basically think that when you have a look back at Jones' career you have to define how good he was by his achievements in boxing rather than his great fights (or lack of). So i got thinking then about what are his greatest achievements and decided I'd put them into a poll on here and see what people think are his greatest moments! Please vote for yours whether you are a Jones fan or not!

I've gone for his return match with Griffin, he really struggled first time round and then when he finally got to his man made a huge mistake by hitting him when he was down. But Montell made a huge mistake by running his mouth for 6 months and paid the price in this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Tb6...eature=related

His dominant win over one of the best fighters in the world at the time, James Toney.

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight :), Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

the way he dominated james toney was probably his best, but i think history will remember his heavyweight win over ruiz as the best

His win over Toney.

I would also rank his win over Tarver ahead of the Ruiz fight.

I think his win over Ruiz was up there especially since no heavyweight was really able to dominate the Quietman since the Tua KO or a middleweight to win a heavyweight title in a 100 years. Jones has 1 more stop to make and that would be to get the undisputed Cruiserweight belt off Adamek. He should pair up with Mackie Shilstone again and make more history.

i still think roy jones has alot to offer this sport, i think he can claim another title maybe where yet to witness his greatest achievement, who nos, i would love him to go out with a bang

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Originally Posted by Pugilistic

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight :), Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

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Been trying to find something on that but not found much, just this link that discuss' it.

Boxing - USA Boxing News - Gatti-Mayweather: What Did You Expect?

The part I was looking is actually discussing Mayweather-Gatti and said "The fight took place 10 years and a day after Roy Jones massacred Vinny Pazienza at the same site. In that bout, Pazienza set a Compubox record that will never be broken by failing to land a punch in the 4th round. Like Gatti, Pazienza was stopped in six. The two fights were equally one-sided."

If Hopkins had done that in 2003 surely they would have picked up on it by the time this report was made. Gonna watch the fight now anyway just to see for myself.

Beating Ruiz was the best. Did not think he could do it. Ruiz had beaten some decent heavies at that time and thought the jump would be too big.

I think its his win over James Toney. But him winning a HW title could be too.

I went with the James Toney win. Toney was not only p4p at the time but he was the most feared guy in boxing at the time also. I believe James Toney was like 44-0. Had already knocked out an undefeated middleweight champ in Michael Nunn. James Toney was favored and no one probably thought RJJ would dominate the way he did. I picked RJJ but I was not expecting such a display.

Jones had some opportunity's and viable opponents to bring out some other defining moments but much of the time he was stuck on risks vs. the numbers and Hbo's open ended allowances....Off the top I'd say the Toney fight.I honestly think he was fully in Toneys head prior.He psyched him out big time and then proceeding to smack him around.....also The ruiz win.Say what you want about huggy-bear Ruiz but he is a tough nut to crack and Jones whipped him like John insulted his momma.

Jones was asked this on ESPN, and he said beating John Ruiz was his greatest accomplishment.

If you recall Ruiz was a solid top ten heavyweight at the time. I believe he may have even been ranked in the top 5 at the time. (As we all know Lennox Lewis was the heavyweight champion at the time).

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Originally Posted by Pugilistic

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight :), Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

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Right I've watched it and in the first round Hakkar only lands one jab but it's still not a full round like Jones'.