McClellan vs roy jones

[rjj tszyu]

anyone who thinks Roy was chinny back then hasn't taken their medication for the day

RJJ was always susceptible to the straight right, IMO.

McClellan/RJJ like Frazier/Norton would of been a pick-em just on the intangible of both knowing each so well, because they were good friends.

I would not like to of called it; so: McClellan at 160: RJJ at 168...this fence is rather comfortable

Roy was susceptible to the straight right?!?! Since when? Versus WHO?

Roy would have beat the shit outta G-Man....G-Man was mean but he wouldn't touch up a PRIME Roy

Totally agreed again! Roy was just about touching his prime when Benn beat McClellan and was still knocking a lot of guys out around then. In fact the only people he wasn't knocking out were the likes of Toney and Hopkins who are great defensive boxers and virtually impossible to knockout, anyone who just came forward round after round like McClellan did would have been knocked out as Roy is one of the hardest if not the hardest puncher I've ever seen at middle/supermiddleweight and he was almost impossible to catch cleanly plus when you put his handspeed into consideration there surley can only be one outcome Jones KO.
Also I knew that McClellan was injured going into the fight with Benn, if I remember rightly he had a blood clot on his brain before the fight (apparently) and it burst during the fight. This travesty should never have happened for a number of reasons and I don't like to hear the G-Mans sisters blaming Benn but when G-Man knocked Benn out of the ring Benn should have been DQ'd because he was helped back into the ring by the ringside observers which is against the rules "Any Pugilist knocked from the ring to the outside must return to the ring unaided" had this rule been followed Gerald may well now be leading a normal life as doctors after the fight should have found the Clot and G-Man would have had to retire.
Going back to the Jones-Gerald "fantasy match" though, I think I better get in that I know G-Man beat Jones as an amateur when they were kids but believe me he would have had slim to no chance as a pro.

[Markusdarkus]

Apart from a weight drained Toney (Who Stweard admits G-Man owned in the gym) Jones never fought anyone elite so i cant judge.

Id pick Jones to get flashy but get his china rocked late.

G-Man late KO as Gerald actually fought prime elite fighters and did well with them Roy just didnt fight good fighters so one never knows.

Give me 8wks camp and ill look like Muhammad Ali against some of the guys Jones fought.

[Thread Stealer]

Apart from a weight drained Toney (Who Stweard admits G-Man owned in the gym) Jones never fought anyone elite so i cant judge.

Id pick Jones to get flashy but get his china rocked late.

G-Man late KO as Gerald actually fought prime elite fighters and did well with them Roy just didnt fight good fighters so one never knows.

Give me 8wks camp and ill look like Muhammad Ali against some of the guys Jones fought.

Like whom?

The half-blind, naturally smaller Julian Jackson?

Or a John Mugabi who peaked at 154 and in the mid 80s?

[Markusdarkus]

Apart from a weight drained Toney (Who Stweard admits G-Man owned in the gym) Jones never fought anyone elite so i cant judge.

Id pick Jones to get flashy but get his china rocked late.

G-Man late KO as Gerald actually fought prime elite fighters and did well with them Roy just didnt fight good fighters so one never knows.

Give me 8wks camp and ill look like Muhammad Ali against some of the guys Jones fought.

Like whom?

The half-blind, naturally smaller Julian Jackson?

Or a John Mugabi who peaked at 154 and in the mid 80s?

The versions of Jackson (x2) and Benn he fought were light years ahead of Roys comp even now. A weight drained Toney aside.

[rjj tszyu]

Apart from a weight drained Toney (Who Stweard admits G-Man owned in the gym) Jones never fought anyone elite so i cant judge.

Id pick Jones to get flashy but get his china rocked late.

G-Man late KO as Gerald actually fought prime elite fighters and did well with them Roy just didnt fight good fighters so one never knows.

Give me 8wks camp and ill look like Muhammad Ali against some of the guys Jones fought.

Like whom?

The half-blind, naturally smaller Julian Jackson?

Or a John Mugabi who peaked at 154 and in the mid 80s?

The versions of Jackson (x2) and Benn he fought were light years ahead of Roys comp even now. A weight drained Toney aside.

Roy Jones pummelled Malinga and stopped him. Yes that the same man who beat Benn up.

[Thread Stealer]

Apart from a weight drained Toney (Who Stweard admits G-Man owned in the gym) Jones never fought anyone elite so i cant judge.

Id pick Jones to get flashy but get his china rocked late.

G-Man late KO as Gerald actually fought prime elite fighters and did well with them Roy just didnt fight good fighters so one never knows.

Give me 8wks camp and ill look like Muhammad Ali against some of the guys Jones fought.

Like whom?

The half-blind, naturally smaller Julian Jackson?

Or a John Mugabi who peaked at 154 and in the mid 80s?

The versions of Jackson (x2) and Benn he fought were light years ahead of Roys comp even now. A weight drained Toney aside.

Toney being weight-drained is probably exaggerated. The guy is just lazy in the gym and at the dinner table. All the talk prior to the fight was how Toney had improved being at 168. He was winning his title-fights in much more convincing fashion than at 160, where he had a few close fights where he could've lost. Then after the Jones fight, out comes the weight-draining excuse.

Toney then was much better than the natural 154 lb., detached-retina having Julian Jackson.