Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
Timing beats speed and McClellan had timing in spades.

McClellan had a good enough chin to hang with Jackson twice.
Roy couldn't stop him, sooner or later McClellan would have tagged him.

McClellan had monster power at Middle. I think he would have got the job done
Timing beats speed if the speed doesn't have timing. Toney had both speed and timing, and he only hit Jones a few times with clean shots, same with Hopkins, both Hopkins and Toney were faster than McCellan, both were as good or better than McClellan and both couldn't time Roy, they couldn't land enough flush shots to stop Roy. You talked about the amateurs, but the amateurs are nothing like the pros, and Roy was nothing like he was as a pro. It wasn't McClellan who went to the Olympics in their weightclass, Roy was a lot easier to tag in the amateurs and he was more of a flurry type fighter than a strategic boxer. As for McClellan chin, how long did his fights with Julian Jackson last (combined 6 rounds?) And how many clean shots did Julian land? Roy dropped guys with better chins than McClellan, Merqui Sosa, Malinga, Reggie Johnson, were all guys who had been known for their iron jaws, but Roy hurt and stopped two of them, and he could have stopped Reggie as well if he really wanted to.