Quote Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan
Quote Originally Posted by Sugar_shaw
Any great fighter can knock some one out they can hit freely, which Tito could on Joppy because of the latters lesser ability. Tito is not a big hitter at 160.
I could name a dozen non-world calss fighters that Jones did not KO despite the fact he was hitting them freely. I don't hear many people saying Jones had no power at 175.

If anything, Tito will have enough power to get Jones's respect. He is not washed up or shot, and if he is than he is no more so than Jones is.

The only big difference is the inactivity. This will hurt Tito a lot as it will mean that he will most likely be giving away many of the early rounds while he gets rid of some major ring rust. Also as Daxx_Kahn said, we still don't know how much of Tito's hart is really into this as he showed in his last fight that he could be dishartened if the fight is not going his way.

If Jones comes into the fight aggressive then it will be a problem for Tito. It may be that while he shakes the rust and Jones kickes up the high gear he might fall badly behind and get discuraged like he did against Wright. However, I would bet that Jones is all talk and won't go after Tito. I would bet that half way through the fight will still be within reach and if Tito's stamina is still half way as good as it use to be than he has a real good chance of taking over late in the fight as Jones has been lacking in the stamina department lately.

But there are a lot of IFs there.
Some of that could be down to the fact that he has openly admitted to carrying some fighters