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You should only really judge fighters when in their prime. Do you think a younger Jones would have lost against those two?
Objectively, pound for pound, probably not, but we were never given any reason to believe he had left his prime, he had just won the heavyweight title we thought he was invincible, I'm sure none of us imagined he had left his prime when he boxed Johnson and Tarver the first times.
At the time of the first Tarver fight Roy was 34. Even with the weightloss excuse it wasn't a surprise that the guy was slipping. Tarver two proved it. The Johnson fight should never have even happened.

How did Tarver 2 prove it? One good punch? Roy was controlling the action, he looked faster that fight then in the first, Tarver looked out of his element, then he got in a good counter punch, IT HAPPENS. The Johnson fight was Roy not keeping his hands up against the ropes.