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

[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.

[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!

[generalbulldog]

I went with beating B-Hop with a broken hand.

BTW, James Toney while a top 10 p4p fighter at the time he fought Jones was not the #1 guy, it was either JCC or Whittaker.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Who else can start a career at Light Middle and wind up winning the Heavyweight crown?

Seriously, look through history and ask your self, who could of done it?

The answer? No one.

Roy was Superman

[rjj tszyu]

I went with beating B-Hop with a broken hand.

BTW, James Toney while a top 10 p4p fighter at the time he fought Jones was not the #1 guy, it was either JCC or Whittaker.

Well there is no official p4p rankings. I think you may be right as far as the Ring were concerned at the time with Sweet Pea but many boxing experts regarded Toney #1 after the Nunn fight and I would have agreed!

[holmcall]

Being in almost 30 bouts with someone who was or is a fomer world champion. For me, that is astounding!

[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

[rjj tszyu]

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

Thats right. Alot of people seem to think Jones was losing the fight but he had turned it round and was actually ahead on two of the cards at the time he was DQ'd!

[jokaleras]

Dominating Toney. That was a career-defining win. It's a must-watch fight for any boxing fan. Absolutely graceful display from a beautiful unorthodxy fighter.

On the subject of the first Griffin fight... man Eddie Futch had RJJ studied masterfully. Griffin was effective with that overhand right.

[Nameless]

I would say: spending almost 10 years without almost losing a single round, that just shows how good he is.