Prime jones....

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Jones beat Hopkins and Toney who are both better fighters than anyone mentioned in the OP.

Bullshit! What did toney do at SMW? Beat Henry Maske victim Iran Barkley (who was fluctuating between 160-175lbs at that point!) and lost to Jones jr! Plus he was having serious weight shredding issues for the jones fight!

He then moved up to a more comfortable weight (LHW) and lost to Thadzi and griffin too! I would pick a shit load of the names mentioned in the O.P over toney! Toney was a great fighter but he was beateable...After the Jones fight Toney didn't pick up a serious win until Jirov in 03 @ CW! (Probably roided to fuck!) Toney wasn't really much better than tiny Montel Griffin mate....Sorry.

As for the Bhop win...Hopkin's was not the fighter he would go onto become vs jones! He was struggling with the likes of Segunda Mercado at that point (Got dropped twice and fought to a draw!) Mercado was tooled by Liles...So stop suggesting they are better than all the names mentioned because they were not! (Certainly at the point anyway!) Hopkins was rated around #8 in the world rankings when jones beat him....