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Im big fan of Roy Jones Jr but Toney, Hopkins, Hill, McCallum, never landed any big shots on Jones's chin. Toney was kept on the outside all night and never landed a telling blow, Hopkins landed few decent right hands here and there but not many. Hill landed a good shot on Jones when ?? McCallum mostly landed to the body i don't remember him landing any good shots on Jones's chin. Im not saying Jones didn't have a better chin before draining himself, but IMO even though all those fighters you mentioned are great fighters none of them ever landed a good shot on Jones, but i think that just shows how good Jones was in his prime that even great fighter's coundn't touch him.
I'm not saying that they gave him serious knockout blows but they all caught him as cleanly if not cleaner than the shots that finished him against Tarver and Johnson. Also the knockdown against Lou del Valle he suffered was a shot that was much cleaner than them.
I thought the Tarver punch was a great punch personally, probably the best clean shot RJJ took in his entire career, as for Glen Johnson i didn't think he hit Jones that hard personally, but watch how hard Jones's head hits the canvas that alone would have seriously hurt him no joke. I thought Jones slipped on a wetspot against Lou Del Valle, Del Valle just pushed a punch at Jones and it caught him off balance and because Jones was on a wetspot at the time didn't help either.


I have to reply, Jones was a great fighter he had all the skills but for vast parts of his career he did not fight the best. Not knocking him Calzaghe and Hopkins did the same, but the punches that starched him did not look solid at all that left hook from tarver would have bounced off say Hopkins or Calzaghe.

Jones is a better fighter than both of those guys and will be rememberd so but i do question his career choices.