I want to get a copy of this tv show that everyone watched that turned them against Roy's skills... I've watched 99% of Roy's fights, and given on a few nights he didn't explode knocking guys out in the first round, from the majority of his fights and what he was capable of, in MOST nights he was unbeatable..
Obviously the tv show was designed, edited, "flavoured", to show Roy as the legend he was, but to show him as the guy who had many chinks in his armour "some of which were exposed during his career".... Pick any fighter in the world and you could put together a show that paints him as someone who was highly overrated.. But it's just not the case... Fuck it's easy to say Roy was far from Unbeatable, but 99% he faced had no fucking chance of beating him.... And if he came prime in every fight, I doubt he would have ever lost a fight.. It's a big statement -- but "extraordinary talent" + "prime" = Unbeatable... That's all there is too it... And no one of Roy's time, and maybe any other time could have stopped him on his best night..
I agree he wasn't PERFECT by any stretch (and maybe that is what is being pointed out here), but in the ring where the game is to knock the other guy out or get knocked out yourself.. Roy was the fucking king of that game..
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