Quote Originally Posted by bikersk View Post
I think he has a chance. If it's prime for prime. But there is no way Jones would have considered that weight in his prime. Although he would have been a lot quicker in his prime than he was when he fought Ruiz and Jones had good power for his weight. Tyson revelled in the big slow guys because he was so fast in his prime and so good with his defense. He always struggled though against skilled boxers who use the jab well and Jones could do anything he wanted in his prime and jabbing would have been a weapon for him. It sure would be a good fight though.
Roy very rarely used the jab as a real weopon...especially once he got up to LWH and he was SO much faster than everybody else. He would use a lead left hook almost like a jab because he could get away from it.

The kind of speed and skill that Roy had was not the type to bother Tyson. Speed and skill like Ali, Holmes, or Lewis is the type to bother Tyson. As somebody else said, Roy loved to back into the ropes and he only fought in spots. Express Train, Prime Time Tyson would have gotten him against he ropes and beat him like a red-headed stepchild. Let's not forgot, at his best, when he was with Cus and Rooney, Tyson had a lot more skill in his game than he employed later in his career and he would have been able to eventually manuver Roy to where he could do max damage.