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Roy Jones Jr. may return on June 9 against Tony Hanshaw in a bout fought in the light heavyweight division.


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Anybody ever heard of Tony Hanshaw hopefully this is last average opponent Jones Faces then he can get bigger fights.

But saying that i just had a look at his record and he is 21 wins 14 kos 0 losses so maybe this is good step up for Jones.
Man, there's nothing I want to see more than Roy Jones come back and kick some ass again and win a world title. But the fact of the matter is he hasn't been the same for a long time. He's been KOed pretty badly by Tarver and really badly by Glen Johnson. That KO had me nervous and scared cause I thought he might not get up. Jones "fell in sections" (as Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini likes to say), and was laying there like almost convulsing (i imagine he was trying to get up but his brain wasnt relaying the message to the body all the way or something because the brain stem had totally been jarred by the punch), with his tongue lolling out of his mouth. I was like damn. that's it...that's it for him. And I been a Roy Jones fan for a long time. I seen all his fights since he fought Glenn Thomas and Bernard Hopkins back in the day. But some boxing styles are based on inhumanly fast reflexes; which in time like everything else, begin to fade. When Roy Jones' reflexes began to slow down as he aged; even by fractions of a second, he became human; he became able to be hit. And since he was so good before he was able to jump divisions and was competing in weight classes where he was fighting opponents with far bigger body frames than he naturally had. Roy Jones wasnt a natural light heavyweight; he was a more natural size for a middle or supermiddleweight, so when these bigger guys became able to hit him, he went down.

I guess what I'm saying is Roy needs to be careful when he fights now. That shucking/jiving loose stance with the hands down isn't gonna work anymore as he's not got the speed to get them up like he used to. He is gonna have to make some modifications and changes to his stance and style and that's gonna take practice and a lotta sparring. He cannot afford another mistake as another KO could have devastating effects on him mentally.

From what I know about this Hanshaw guy, he is a young guy who has some good amateur experience; he was eliminated from the Olympic trials by Jermaine Taylor himself. Hanshaw said he only lost to Taylor by one point. As a pro, he is undefeated. That means he will be willing to take risks that other fighters who have been made familiar with their own vulnerability may not necessarily take - and more often. This could be a much tougher fight for Roy than most people think. But after he hands Hanshaw his first "O" as a pro, he is rumored to be back in the picture to be in line for either the winner of Hopkins-Wright or the winner of Calzaghe-Kessler/Taylor (whichever ends up being made). Then Roy can grab the microphone and address all those people and tell them, "Y'ALL MUSTA FORGOT!!!"







Will there be another Roy Jones?
Probly not.
Stopped Virgil Hill with a body shot.
Y'ALL MUSTA FORGOT!