Roy Jones: the boxing genius

[donnydarkoIRL]

If you've foughten anyone half decent and tried to emulate his style you would be owned, also if you watched more then one of his fights you would know Roy LET people put him on the ropes, he wasn't forced to them, when he didn't want to be on the ropes, you weren't getting him on the ropes. Also wtf were you talking about Roy was ko'ed off the ropes both times? He wasn't on the ropes against Tarver, he caught hit by a great counter shot.

Roy Jones beats Hagler and Monzon... he is too quick and too skilled.

I think Ezzard Charles gives Roy a decent fight, but Roy's speed wins the day, and Archie Moore fought similar to Jamest Toney, and we all know how he did against Roy. Its a horrible match up for Archie.

Also how is Whitaker textbook in any sense?

I box amateur and I've got a national title, I'm at the beginning of my road and I'm pretty athletic, so please lets leave my career out of it, I was only implying I'm a huge Jones fan.

Roy was and is always forced to the ropes. Johnson, Tarver even Hanshaw recently all forced himmto the ropes.

Look at the Tarver fight. You can't imagine that Roy has control of the ring there. He attacked of the ropes and paid for it.

Whittaker has one of the best textbook jabs ever.
It's apparent you think the textbook was written recently.

Oh so when Roy isn't properly prepared, its becuase he isn't as good as he was, but when LEonard or Benitez or Duran aren't prepared, its excusable?

Thats basically what your saying... Roy's body hasn't been prepared since he came back down from heavyweight, he permanently damaged his body, maybe not really evidently but enough in a sport like boxing that he moves just that little bit slower, which costs him.

Against Tarver that was an honest loss that he may have suffered earlier in his career because that was a perfect counter punch in the second fight, I felt Roy pretty much dominated the first fight, but people were so enamored by somebody standing any sort of a chance that they gave Tarver bs rounds.

Taeth I wasn't referring to Roy Jones here.
If you took the time to look at the highlighted text it was clear I was referrring to Roberto Duran.

Taeth instead of going on the warpath take time to read posts and understand their context.

YOu can't use one amateur fight to show that Roy couldn't box well, he fought plenty of great opposition as an amateur and lost like 8 or 9 of his fights. He had all the skills, you complain about his jab, but he only used it to set other punches up. It doesn't mean he wasn't effective with it, it just means he didn't use it to dominate the fight, but when he did like against Ruiz or Pazienza it sure worked fine, as an amateur he had a great jab.

Jesus Christ Taeth!


I'm a Jones Jr. fan!
I've got his career set, I've met him and I train to box like him, you imply I'm hating on Roy

Read my posts before you reply!!!!


Roy Jones Jr. never employed a jab and he was never skilled.
He compensated with his unbelievable physical prowess, but was never skilled in a textbook sense.