Quote Originally Posted by THE PHILOSOPHER View Post
It's no coincidence that jones avoided every slick southpaw of his generation...Liles, Nunn and JC! Why? Look what happened when he fought southpaw tarver! I also maintain that fighting the likes of Mclellan, Michalkewski and Eubank would have shaved years off of jones prime too! The Johnson fight is evidence of that! Jones would have been beaten sooner had he stepped up more consistantly!

Great fghter but not the superhuman ppl made him out to be...Too untested IMO. The praise in some way's is unjustified! Some of the replies so far in this thread just re-iterate what my O.P suggested.
Saying something does not make it so. Explain how he avoided those people and especially Joe? What year could he have fought Calzaghe at 168? Jones was long gone to 175 when Joe was just starting to come into his own at 168. Its simply a myth w/o a time machine.