Ironic this is posted under Rozzy's sig but:
I really dislike Mayweather but I do feel he has become a better fighter than Roy Jones Jr.
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Ironic this is posted under Rozzy's sig but:
I really dislike Mayweather but I do feel he has become a better fighter than Roy Jones Jr.
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Bullshit. Who the hell has Mayweather beaten that is better than a prime James Toney? Answer me that. Gimme a fukin break.Originally Posted by RozzySean
"You knocked him down...now how bout you try knockin me down ?"
Speaking of Toney, has he officially retired?Originally Posted by Hulk
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Originally Posted by Hulk
Oscar Delahoya (the same Oscar that spanked your boy Mayorga at 154)
Is that the break that you we're looking for??![]()
Aging Oscar at 154, who fights once a year was better than James Toney? PLEASE. Prime for Prime even, hell career to career, Toney is the superior fighter.Originally Posted by frozensolid_702
And no, I think Toney plans on fighting and eating some more.
"You knocked him down...now how bout you try knockin me down ?"
Prime James Toney was Jone's finest hour. You can make a reasonable case that whitewashing Toney at 168 is a single greater victory than any of Mayweather's single victories, but once you get beyond Toney and a still developing Hopkins, the volumn of Mayweathers work given in the edge. Don't forget about PBF completely dominating and cleaning out 130 and 135. Been critical of Floyd in the past for the way he handled the 140lb division, but he put that to rest by beating Hatton last month.Originally Posted by Hulk
Top Quality Floyd Mayweather wins:
Oscar, Ricky, Corrales, Castillo, Judah, Jesus Chavez, G. Hernadez, and Carlos Hernadez w/one hand.
Second Tier:
Manfredy, Corley, Baldomir
Top Jones Wins:
Toney, Hopkins (very young), Griffin, Hill, Harding, Ruiz (i guess)
Second Tier:
McCallum (a shot version), Gonzalez, Woods.
Both resumes are impressive. The win over a prime but totally weight drained Toney stands out, especially because he thumped him so thoroughly. Even at full strength, Roy wins that one. But once you get past 1 and 2 on the list, looking at the whole list, I give Floyd the edge, and he's not done adding to it.
And I hate Floyd. I'm just being objective. Roy seems greater in some ways because he was so much fun to watch. Made guys look dumb when they tried to him and threw brilliant, flashing combos.
Rozzy I like how you just ignore Jone's victories over Thomas "Ice T" Tate, Merqui Sosa and Reggie Johnson. Those were three BAD MF's right there.
"You knocked him down...now how bout you try knockin me down ?"
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As to Floyd/ Tito I'm in Mayweather's favor. Floyd's style would give Trinidad hell all night!!!
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"People stop saying Floyd would beat Tito"
Floyd WOULD beat Titoby about 4 rounds
I'm not sure those were "bad" fighters, but the definately weren't top class. None of those three fighters every beat a top level fighter. Tate was the best of three, by far, but he was beat by Percy Harris, Julian Jackson (no shame in that, but it would have been a more impressive victory if he would have beaten Jackson). He also lost to Rocky Gannon and Silvio Branco right after the Jones fight. Sosa was decent, but he falls into tier 2.Originally Posted by Hulk
I also left about 3 names of similar level fighters to those off Floyds list, because Gatti, Juuko, and Phillip N'Dou a bit below the other names. N'Dou was actually a pretty impressive victory, too, at least on the level of Sosa, Juuko was certainly as good than Reggie Johnson p4p.
I stand by my orginal point, but this is a Tito vs Floyd thread and we've managed to get into a debate about Roy Jones. I would say start a new thread if you want to continue, but I'm pretty much bored of this.
This would be like someone saying Sharmba Mitchell, Victoriano Sosa, and Chop Chop Corley were 'three BAD MF's.' Don't make me laugh. There's a name for guys like Tate, the two Sosa's, Johnson, Mitchell, and Corley:Originally Posted by Hulk
their called tune-ups.
Wheres Reggie Johnson who beat Steve Collins, was the first man to drop James Toney, plus all of his losses were razor thin decisions coming into Jones fight.Originally Posted by RozzySean
Thulani Malinga even deserves a mention he was never KO coming into Jones fight. Plus he went on to beat the likes of Benn and a lot of people think he should of been 2-0 with Benn instead of 1-1. He also out boxed a prime Robin Reid when he was 40+. Malinga was a tough solid fighter who went the distance with a lot of World champions.
And you also mention that Hopkins was young and inexperienced, but Roy Jones had even less fights than Hopkins.
Do you even know the history on Tate ?? shortly before Jones fight he went the distance with the hardest hitting Middleweight champion of all time Julian Jackson and gave him one of his toughest fights. Jones is the only boxer to ever KO him, Tate was a solid fighter fighter in his prime.Originally Posted by skyler
Now your just being biased, Mayweather handled Oscar much easier than Tito ever did. And lets not forget Mayweather fought Oscar way above his best weight class and Mayweather is about x2 better at Super Featherweight and Lightweight. I had Mayweather winning the Oscar De La Hoya fight clearly by 3 or 4 rounds plus Oscar De La Hoya only landed 21 percent of his punches, and Mayweather landed 43 percent of his punches, where as Oscar De La Hoya landed 41 percent of his punches vs Felix Trinidad, and Tito only landed 25 percent of his punches.Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan
If Mayweather would have fought Oscar De La Hoya at Lightweight. Mayweather would have beaten Oscar De La Hoya by near enough the same scores as he did at Light Middleweight.
You are putting way too much into what I said. I never meant to imply Tito handled DLH better than Mayweather did. I'm simply stating that the DLH that Tito fought was much better than the DLH Mayweather fought. It was a prime, undefeated DLH. The reason I say that is because everyone likes to point out Tito-DLH and say see if DLH did that than Mayweather could do it better. Well I don't see how we can all come to the conclusion that Mayweather now at welterweight is any better than prime DLH at welterweight. Not to mention that Mayweather is smaller and does not have the power of DLH.Originally Posted by Ice Cold Boxing
And why are you talking about DLH - Mayweather at Lightweight. What does that have to do with this discussion. But now that you mention it, you should be fair about it and remember that DLH was much better at Lightweight too.
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