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Quote Originally Posted by RozzySean
I'd like to revive some of the great MW and LHW's of days past, especially the LHW's...MW Robinson, Zale, Fulmer, Hagler, Monzon, LHWs Billy Conn, Tommy Loughran, Bob Foster, and Archie Moore. Those divisions used to be so exciting. I wish Roy Jones had fought in a better era for SMW and LHW. Wouldn't it have been great to see Roy fight Foster, Moore, or Conn? He probably wins two of those three, but I would love to see what Roy would have done against Foster's reach and power and Conn's speed and skill.
I think he, ROy Jones Jr, is way too fast for Conn. A guy who realies on his speed is in big trouble when he fighitng somebody much faster than him. I think Moore would have gone more like Jones-Toney, who at that time was as good as Moore IMO, and then Foster, its hard to say because Roy had that ability to dominate anyone regardless of how good they were, but Foster was intelligent and would make this a close fight, another guy is Ezzard Charles, but I think he loses for similar reasons as Conn, but its a closer fight. I would have liked to have seen the Zale's, Robinson's, Monson's, Hagler's back in the early 90's at MW, but right now its all about the ww's and i would love to see Robinson, Duran, Leonard, Hearns all come back from that category, I would love to see Carbajal fight Calderon, PAcquaio fight Pep, Marquez or Vazquez fight Wilfredo Gomez or Azumah Nelson. A few years ago it would have been interesting to throw 130 Mayweather in the MOrrales, Barrera, Pacquaio Mix.
Conn would have been a very close fight because he had skill as well as speed. He was the technically more sound fighter, but I can see Jones winning. Burt Sugar actually predicted that off all the LHW in history, Conn is one of the few that might beat Jones. Charles might have been the other. I agree that Jones/Moore would look a lot like Jones/Toney, although I think at LHW, it would be closer because more in his prime wouldn't have been weight drained like Toney was at SMW. I just rewatched Jones Toney and I had forgotten how really lopsided it was for Jones. It was pretty much a shutout, and that's coming from a big Toney fan. I think Moore would have let his hands go a little more and done a better job cutting off the ring, but I would give Jones the edge in the end.

FYI, I didn't break out those names to detract from Jones. It's not Jones's fault that he fought in a relatively weak era for LHW's and he beat who was out their when they were out there. I like it when ATG's get the chance to fight other ATG's in their primes, and Jones didn't have anybody to push him. Even in his absolute prime, Foster, Moore, and Conn would have made interesting, exciting fights where the outcome wasn't a forgone conclusion, like most of Jones Jrs fights.