Quote Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan
shza, first of all I said comparable, not better or the same.

1. Please explain to me how he's competitive in power. He's a welterweight. Roy has KO'd plenty at light heavy.

There is no reason for us to conclude that Tito will have no power at 170. It is a mith that his power diminished at 160. His 3 wins were by KO. Two of them were against guys that had never been down before, much less knocked out. There is nothing to tell us that it won't be the same at 170.

2. Given this fact, chin is completely irrelevant -- though it probably favors Roy anyway (Tito's ability to withstand welterweight shots says nothing about his ability to absorb punishment from a light heavyweight).

Why is chin irrelavent? It is possible the most relavent sinse most agree that Tito's best chance is to KO Jones. And what makes you think it would favor Roy. He made his entire career on not getting hit. As soon as he lossed a step and started getting hit, he started going down.

3. Roy's stamina is fine. Tito has put on 20 pounds of fat and sat on his a** for the past 3 years.

Tito's best asset has alwais been his stamina, never has he ran out of gas. He may have put on some weigh but he has no vices and he alwais trains hard for every fight.

4. Roy has more experience. Objective fact.

Again, I said comparable. They have roughly the same amount of championship fights. If anything, Tito has more experianced in big events sinse he has been involved in larger PPV fights.

5. Disagree that Tito will be competitive in accuracy when he's fighting someone twice as fast as he is.

Asside from his performance against a boxing wizard in B-Hop and a deffensive master in Winky, Tito was one of the most pinpoint accurate punchers in the game.

6. Tito's work rate goes into the toilet when he's getting outclassed (see, e.g., Winky Wright).

He won't get out classed. Roy has no jab and he's no where near what he use to be. Roy's laying on the ropes stategy will only boost Tito's confidence and will produce a higher work rate.

I would be very surprised if Tito won a single round of this fight. And I would have said the same thing when they were both in their primes. An ATG light heavyweight against a very good welterweight? How can there possibly be any question?

Tito was way more than just a very good welterweight. He was an ATG welterweight that would've given any past and pressent ATG welterweight a fight for his life and would have a shot to beat any of them.
I really believe that Tito could have went on for years at 154 and dominated, 160 was simply to big for him, and he should have went back down in weight after the loss to Hopkins sort of like Hatton went back down. But after years of sitting I believe he has simply grown into a bigger fighter, he is my favorite of all time and I think he will KO RJJ