Re: Roy Jones Jr. winning a HW title.

Originally Posted by
Ron Swanson
Roy was fighting at or around 154 in the beginning of his career, even still making 154 in his 12th fight. For him to beat Hop for a middleweight title. Winning the SMW against Toney. A light heavyweight title against Montell Griffin. Another against Del Valle. Another against Johnson. Another against Harding. Remaining against Gonzalez. And jumping up to take on Ruiz is tremendous. As much crap as Ruiz gets he has like 5 heavyweight title fight victories and fought many great fighters. As much as I hate Ruiz I felt he was robbed of a couple title victories too.(could say gifts as well so it evened out)
Roy is a freak of nature, embrace his career and enjoy it. You may never see that again.
Completely hit the nail on the Head! anybody thinking of trying to discredit Roy's achievement by denigrating Ruiz, wants to look at who AJ took the title off! it is what it is really, you don't get to choose who you beat for the title.
I watched an interview with Roy once, which many of you have probably seen , but he was saying how when he was at his peak, he didn't just want to be World Champ, but he wanted to do something incredible that nobody would ever beat and be remembered for being an ATG by Going unbeaten throughout his career and picking up multiple weight division titles in the process. However, that was taken away from him with the Montell Griffin DQ. So he had to think again and what could he do that would be incredible? so he set himself the target of becoming HW champ of the World.
now some of you may think that's the regular bullshit these guys come out with , but for a period of time, Roy was a "once every couple of generations fighter" imo.
Former Undisputed 4 belt Prediction champion. Still P4P and People’s Champion.
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