What is the greatest achievement of Roy Jones Jr's Career?

[Pugilistic]

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight , Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

[paddy448]

the way he dominated james toney was probably his best, but i think history will remember his heavyweight win over ruiz as the best

[SweetPea]

His win over Toney.

I would also rank his win over Tarver ahead of the Ruiz fight.

[jon09]

I think his win over Ruiz was up there especially since no heavyweight was really able to dominate the Quietman since the Tua KO or a middleweight to win a heavyweight title in a 100 years. Jones has 1 more stop to make and that would be to get the undisputed Cruiserweight belt off Adamek. He should pair up with Mackie Shilstone again and make more history.

[paddy448]

i still think roy jones has alot to offer this sport, i think he can claim another title maybe where yet to witness his greatest achievement, who nos, i would love him to go out with a bang

[rjj tszyu]

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight , Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

Been trying to find something on that but not found much, just this link that discuss' it.

Boxing - USA Boxing News - Gatti-Mayweather: What Did You Expect?

The part I was looking is actually discussing Mayweather-Gatti and said "The fight took place 10 years and a day after Roy Jones massacred Vinny Pazienza at the same site. In that bout, Pazienza set a Compubox record that will never be broken by failing to land a punch in the 4th round. Like Gatti, Pazienza was stopped in six. The two fights were equally one-sided."

If Hopkins had done that in 2003 surely they would have picked up on it by the time this report was made. Gonna watch the fight now anyway just to see for myself.

[rjj tszyu]

by the way i think Roy being the only fighter being able to avoid every punch in a round is wrong.

If i'm correct in the Hopkins - Hakkar fight , Hopkins was able to avoid all of Hakkar's shots, can't remember which round it was.

Right I've watched it and in the first round Hakkar only lands one jab but it's still not a full round like Jones'.

[El Kabong]

I don't know if he's the ONLY guy to avoid every punch thrown in one round....Willie Pep, Pernell Whittaker, etc may have also acheived that.

I think one of his best acheivements was the demolition of Thulaini Malinga a guy Chris Eubank struggled with and a guy Nigel Benn couldn't stop and RJJ smashed him out in 6

[rjj tszyu]

I don't know if he's the ONLY guy to avoid every punch thrown in one round....Willie Pep, Pernell Whittaker, etc may have also acheived that.

I think one of his best acheivements was the demolition of Thulaini Malinga a guy Chris Eubank struggled with and a guy Nigel Benn couldn't stop and RJJ smashed him out in 6

Yeah and he beat Benn in the rematch. I was interested in what you'd vote for actually because I half thought you would go for the Ruiz win because of the size difference but then again you also share my belief that Ruiz is and was then a joke for want of a better word. In fact joke isn't fair because people get on at Ruiz for being a muliple time world champ but its more the boxing organisations splitting everyone so they all have their own champs and making it harder and harder to be undisputed!

So? I made a mistake not making this poll public. What did you vote for Lyle?

[jdonaher1]

Stat-wise his run at LH was pretty impressive. He unified the titles for the first time since the early 80's, He fought 4 undefeted fighters, fought 9 fighters with 3 or less losses almost all of them southpaws, 2 future Hall of Famers (both a little past there prime) and maybe the one true fight of his career gutted out the last 2 rounds to beat Tarver. Tarver totally blew that fight IMO. Roy probably lost more rounds in that fight than his entire run at Light Heavy.

[El Kabong]

So? I made a mistake not making this poll public. What did you vote for Lyle?

I didn't vote, I couldn't decide on what to vote for....I think the win over James Toney was probably the biggest win he had

[holmcall]

His one round icing of Montell Griffith in their rematch had important implications.

[El Kabong]

His one round icing of Montell Griffith in their rematch had important implications.

...true but it's not like RJJ was losing the first fight when he hit Griffin when he was down

[iwng100]

I really can’t decide between James Toney and John Ruiz fights, both representing an amazing accomplishment; but I use to relax sometimes with Griffin (II) or Richard Hall fights when I’m in a bad mood.

[rjj tszyu]

I really can’t decide between James Toney and John Ruiz fights, both representing an amazing accomplishment; but I use to relax sometimes with Griffin (II) or Richard Hall fights when I’m in a bad mood.

I think his display against Hall showed just how much he could control a fight. He showed early that he could KO him at any point and then had 100% repect from his opponent from then on whilst he pot shotted his way to a painful (for Hall) late stoppage victory!