found an old boxing monthly where RJJ calls out EUBANK

[petem]

JUNE 1995

'i hear nostrils lost his belt, which really suprised me, but tell nostrils that ROY is doing what he wouldn't do and offering him a shot at ROY's strap. the IBF committee said EUBANKS will be in the next ratings, and i'd love to go over there and fight him in LONDON or a soccer building somewhere with ROY's strap on the line.

'i want to try and show i'm the best middleweight and super middleweight champion of them all before going up to heavyweight for someone like MICHAEL MOORER if he wins another belt there and that'll be me.

'when i saw him in NEW YORK a few years ago before the fight with BENN he told me he'd spank me in a few years time and something about going away and building myself up.

'after what he saw me do to SIMPLY BETTER - the HONEY BOY, and to JAMES and BYRD, he should know if he could spank me in any way he's giving himself some rep outside his little crib in ENGLAND and EUROPE.

'i'm willing to throw hands if he is, but i don't want to put the boy off.'


this should put an end to the 'RJJ wouldnt travel or fight the best' bs

[bzkfn]

Why should it? He always says it. he never does it.

[petem]

maybe because EUBANK and BENN priced themselves out, and CALZAGHE/warren wouldn't increase his name to the US fans

[bzkfn]

maybe because EUBANK and BENN priced themselves out, and CALZAGHE/warren wouldn't increase his name to the US fans

Don't get me wrong, I like Roy, but you said it should put an end to the BS that he won't fight the best. Roy hasn't fought the best for some time. He does have a tendancy to say one thing and then do the other. I recently read an interview were he said he'd fight Wlad. We know that won't happen.

Because this has happened alot, I wouldn't take something Roy said as gospel.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Why should it? He always says it. he never does it.

True... Hopkins does(did) the same thing with Calzaghe.

This changes nothing. He still never did it!

[BubbleBox]

All mouth and it's boring

[ICB]

maybe because EUBANK and BENN priced themselves out, and CALZAGHE/warren wouldn't increase his name to the US fans

Don't get me wrong, I like Roy, but you said it should put an end to the BS that he won't fight the best. Roy hasn't fought the best for some time. He does have a tendancy to say one thing and then do the other. I recently read an interview were he said he'd fight Wlad. We know that won't happen.

Because this has happened alot, I wouldn't take something Roy said as gospel.

Eubank said he never wanted to fight Roy Jones because he knew he would lose.

Jones beat a solid list of opposition.

McCallum
Hill
Hopkins
Toney
Griffin

4 out of the 5 names there are hall of famers.

[Taeth]

I remember watching one of his SMW fights after Toney, and he was talking to Jim because there had been discusions of him, Roy Jones, not wanting to fight the best guys out there. So Roy told HBO that if they can find somebody(Eubanks, Benn, Watson, Collins) to fight him on US soil for a 60/40 split he would take it, and HBO couldn't set up a fight. I think by this point Gerald McClellan was already out of the picture.

[Violent Demise]

It's common knowledge that Eubanks would never of fought Jones. He said it himself. Eubanks didn't feel he could win. And he was right.

[LEGION]

It's common knowledge that Eubanks would never of fought Jones. He said it himself. Eubanks didn't feel he could win. And he was right.

At least they were honest

[ICB]

It's common knowledge that Eubanks would never of fought Jones. He said it himself. Eubanks didn't feel he could win. And he was right.

He said that in his biography or something didn't he ??

[Mr140]

Man what is up with all this Roy stuff lately is it because people were comparing Clazaghe to him at SWM and now i see all this threads i just find it funny because alot of it is such old news if you ask me.

[Preme]

maybe because EUBANK and BENN priced themselves out, and CALZAGHE/warren wouldn't increase his name to the US fans

Don't get me wrong, I like Roy, but you said it should put an end to the BS that he won't fight the best. Roy hasn't fought the best for some time. He does have a tendancy to say one thing and then do the other. I recently read an interview were he said he'd fight Wlad. We know that won't happen.

Because this has happened alot, I wouldn't take something Roy said as gospel.

Eubank said he never wanted to fight Roy Jones because he knew he would lose.

Jones beat a solid list of opposition.

McCallum
Hill
Hopkins
Toney
Griffin

4 out of the 5 names there are hall of famers.

he would fight him, but only for stupid money, i guess the same thing really?

[petem]

maybe because EUBANK and BENN priced themselves out, and CALZAGHE/warren wouldn't increase his name to the US fans

Don't get me wrong, I like Roy, but you said it should put an end to the BS that he won't fight the best. Roy hasn't fought the best for some time. He does have a tendancy to say one thing and then do the other. I recently read an interview were he said he'd fight Wlad. We know that won't happen.

Because this has happened alot, I wouldn't take something Roy said as gospel.

Eubank said he never wanted to fight Roy Jones because he knew he would lose.

Jones beat a solid list of opposition.

McCallum
Hill
Hopkins
Toney
Griffin

4 out of the 5 names there are hall of famers.

none were at their best when RJJ fought them apart from GRIFFIN the 1st time who beat him fair and square

BUT the point is RJJ was willing to fight the best, remember he took the fight against JAMES TONEY not knowing TONEY would be ill, he was expecting JAMES TONEY at his best! just think about that

he was also willing to come to UK for EUBANK and BENN, despite them having put men in wheelchairs in LONDON wars. think about that, too

[petem]

it's strange that you make up quotes about EUBANK

he actually said 'maybe i would beat ROY JONES, but i have no will to know. it doesnt interest me. if you rate these guys better than me, i'm fine with that, i have no will to prove you wrong'