Quote Originally Posted by smashcrusher
The only people lying to themselves are the naive few who think Roy, let alone any fighter, in his prime had a style that would shut out everyone. Sorry, but that's not the case. You're damn right Tarver's style would give Roy problems no matter when they fought. And like I said before, you'd have a much better argument if Roy would have gotten KO'd in his first fight with Tarver, but he didn't, he won it outright, fair and square. He got KTFO in the rematch. Doesn't bode to well for Roy supporters saying he was 'over the hill.' lol
tarver's style wasn't anymore difficult than montell griffen's...tarver was just another lefty who would have gotten torn up by prime roy....everyone in the boxing world knows it...emmauel steward, merchant, hopkins, calzaghe, joe goosen, eric harding (and he fought both roy and tarver), only those that have done nothing but sit and wait for roy lose will not admit that at 36 years old roy was on his way out...actually the fact that roy won the first fight at 70% was great, the second fight was a well timed punch that four years ago roy wouldn't have even been there standing for...

So lemme get this straight....you're saying that roy only dominated boxing for 15 years because he hadn't fought tarver and johnson yet? because if believe that either one of them would have beaten prime roy or even roy before he went up to heavy...then you're lying to yourself and if you don't think the weight did something to roy...you can just look to hop-tarver fight for evidence....(again hop would have won, but not so easily had tarver not done rocky 6)