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Jones fought Richard Fraizer who was a full time New York police man. He fought another guy who I forgot his name but worked full time on a trash truck. How are these people getting title fights? Easy Jones was a big money maker for HBO. So HBO put him in with fighters who are not even good enough to get on ESPN. He had skill There's no doubt about that. He just didn't fight the best out there. That's how fighters become great.
Chris Eubanks did the same with his Sky contract and fought a postmen. Roy would have smashed up Eubank who had lost his appetite for taking on the best fighters after what happened against Watson. Nigel Benn was finished after his war with the G Man. The Brits preferred to make money in UK only Nigel Benn went to the USA to pick up a WBO title and defend it in UK. They did not want any part of Roy Jones.

The German light heavyweight also preferred to make money in his home country so they were all at it. Not just Roy and his HBO contract.
I agree 100% but you have to beat other great fighters to be great. He hasn't done that. James Toney fought the best fighters in the world again and again. Now I know Jones has a win over Toney. Beating Joe Louis doesn't make you Joe Louis.
In truth, if you do not give credit to Roy for beating Hopkins and Toney, you will never accept that Jones was a great fighter even if he had beaten Benn, Eubank and Dariusz Michalczewski in their own countries.