Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
RJJ doesn't have the style that has proven effective vs Tyson. I do think Roy was great, but it's hard to say when his only heavyweight fight was vs John Ruiz and he didn't fight any prime fighters that had anything close to Tyson's style or were as dangerous to him as Tyson would have been.

As for Ali, that's good of you ICB, not to buy into the hype. I think he was a great fighter, but I can't think of him as THE GREATEST OF ALL-TIME. That pisses some people off, but I feel other fighters acheived more than he did, maybe he was dealt a bad hand with the Vietnam War and all but just because he was an icon of the Black counter culture right next to MLK and Malcom X doesn't mean he's automatically the greatest fighter of all time. He was blessed with good opponents and he was physically bigger than all of them and they all had pretty limited styles at that time. The opponents Ali fought were either plodding sluggers like Foreman and Frazier or boxers with little to no power.
Exactly...ali fought a bunch huge sluggers. And he used his at the time athletic ability to beat them. I agree that he is one of the best heavy's of all time..but p4p Roy would kick his ass.

Roy coming in at 185-190 against 205-210 ali. Roy would murder his ass.