Quote Originally Posted by rjj tszyu View Post
I pretty much agree with this completely!!

I always though that Jones should have called it a day after that fight with Ruiz, he had nothing left to prove, he dominated 175lbs division for years and then took on a HW because he had run out of challenges years before in his own division. He was obviously never going to beat Lennox and he knew that so all he could really do was go down in weight and after adding 20+lbs of muscle in his mid thirties it was never going to be easy and as you say he lacked the pop in his punches and stamina when he did go back down and I also believe he lost his punch resistance then too, although there wasn't much proof he had a great chin before as he very rarely got touched on it.

Lets be fair Tarver, Johnson and Calzaghe would not have beaten or even got close to beating a prime Roy Jones.
As a big Roy Jones fan, I wish he would have. At the time (after the first Tarver fight) he said he wanted a super fight with Mike Tyson (who IMO he would have beat at the time) and retired.

If he was talking about retiring, then you know his heart wasn't in the game anymore.

It's a shame how he went out because he truly was one of the all time greats, I've never seen anyone with the physical gifts he had and I probably never will.