Quote Originally Posted by ozzwald
Two common opponents for Jones and Eubank, both went the distance in boring fights against Eubank, while Jones destroyed both of them in very impressive fashion!
Tony Thornton was in his prime when he fought Eubank, whereas when he fought Jones he'd come out of retirement to fight Jones and then never fought again, he'd been retired a few years before he fought Jones had he not? Thornton looked pathetic when he fought Jones and Eubank would of beaten him just as impressively as Jones did.

Roy Jones didn't knock Thulane Malinga down until round six, and when Malinga was down he just stayed down purposely and quit. Do you know why he didn't bother to get up against Jones? Because there was no world title on the line, Jones wasn't a world champion so Malinga just decided to stay down. Eubank knocked Malinga down after just 4-5 rounds and Malinga somehow managed to scrape his way back to his corner, Malinga dug deep to make it up before the count of 10 against Eubank because the world title was on the line, Eubank was world champion so it was a world title fight and that's how Malinga somehow managed to get up against Eubank because he had something to fight for. Also, Malinga fought Eubank about 18 months before he fought Jones and was already in his late-30's, so he was ageing by the time he fought Jones.

As for John Jarvis, I don't even think Eubank got hit once by Jarvis, and the knockout punch was frightening. It was a perfect performance and awesome stuff from Eubank. Give him credit. Jarvis almost won the IBF title in his previous fight when he had Van Horn all over the place before the lucky punch, so how he was only ranked by the WBO?? Jarvis was actually a very good prospect, knocking guys out for fun in the 80's when he was coming up, he was due to fight for any of the light-middle titles and had his pick, he used a rookie called Darnell Knox as a 'warm-up' before he fought for a world title.. but he took the fight too lightly and suffered a shock defeat.