After Watching Roy Jones-John Ruiz...

[Wayne]

I think ego brought Roy back down to fight Tarver. He was in another stratosphere; he didn't NEED to fight Tarver considering the huge fights waiting for him at HW. But Tarver was running those big lips and Roy wanted to shut him up. A fight with Tyson would have made way more money and Roy could have picked at the fringe elite in the division and then called it quits with only 1 loss. At that point in his career Tyson would have been very dangerous, but very beatable.

[Boom Boom]

I think if he styed at heavyweight and tried to unify with Lewis he would come up short, I think he would beat Holyfield, but there would have been a risk factor there as there would Tyson. I think he would have beat Tyson and that may have been a better looking win at that time. Him beating Ruiz for the title is still overlooked imo as he was a real champion.His ego did bring him back down to fight Tarver and Roy had no real intention of fighting at heavyweight for more than one fight.

[eagle]

If the Cruiser division had been stronger at that point he could have fought there. If a David Haye was around at that point he may well have.
Was Chris Byrd champion at the time Roy fought at HW, cos i think that would have been a win for Roy too.

Calzaghe ever thought of going for a HW title? Could be a good way of proving he is as good as Roy?

[CGM]

after watching the ease with which Jones danced, pranced, clowned, hotdogged, did the strut, and outboxed Ruiz I kinda think he probably didn't need the whole extra 20.

[Taeth]

I liked that he jabbed a lot, and they were hard snapping jabs.

[Gandalf]

Its was a good performance, but it was against Ruiz. Ruiz doesnt have all that many plaudits and yet it was a great performance because Jones Jr went up and beat him? Hmm.

It was an impressive and competent win. But it was Ruiz after all.