Quote Originally Posted by blegit View Post
A 25 year old RJJ would not be head and shoulders above Dirrell but he would a head above Dirrell. But this is a good comparison. Dirrell is the athletic freak that RJJ once was. Its just that RJJ would be more daring and actually had one punch knockout power. Dirrell will come of age and he will be one of the rare fighters who will learn to dominate on both sides, offense and defense.
I disagree. You could see Jones was going to be something special when he was way younger than Dirrell is now. No-one could stand up to Jones' power until he fought Castro who was freakish in the chin department back then and then Hopkins went the distance but Roy only had one hand in that fight, not saying Roy would have KO'd Bernard but it would have been interesting had he had both hands in full working order.

Roy had great combo's too whereas Dirrell only seems to have 1-2's in his arsenal when it comes to putting his punches together. I wish Roy was taking Taylor's place in this tournament because apart from Kessler I think he is still clearly better than everyone else in this tournament.