Re: Roy Jones Jr. winning a HW title.
I think it's going to be remembered as a statistical anomaly, rather than an actual fantastic achievement.
It is true that he is - factually - the only former middleweight champ to win a world heavyweight title although Floyd Patterson won an Olympic gold at middleweight and was the professional undisputed heavyweight champ).
HOWEVER; I think it does need to be remembered that he 'only' won an alphabet belt, and he didn't beat the dominant heavyweight of the day in Lennox Lewis. Both Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko were also coming up at the time and were both ranked in the top ten. I don't think many people genuinely think that Roy would have managed to beat any of those guys?
In my view, Ruiz was also possibly the worst alphabet belt holder ever (although the legendary Charles Martin could push him closemfor that accolade)
Roy was unquestionably a great fighter, but I do tend to think that this achievement should have a small asterisk next to it!
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