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You mean the same Roy Jones good enough to fight Joe Calzaghe just last year and the same Roy Jones Beranrd Hopkins wanted to fight next March? That shot Roy Jones? It appears to me that Danny Green would have been better off losing this fight to Jones?
Maybe Bernard Hopkins shouldn't have lost to Jermaine Taylor either...Twice!
Markus Beyer & Anthony Mundine are not fit to lace Taylor's gloves. Say what you like about Taylor, but his resume is one of the best in the sport. He's taken on the best in their primes & whilst he might not have always won, he's earned respect. Bernard Hopkins 2x, Winky Wright, Cory Spinks, William Joppy, Kelly Pavlik, Jeff Lacy, Kassim Ouma, Raul Marquez, Carl Froch & Arthur Abraham.

The best names on Beyer & Mundine's records combined are Mikkel Kessler, Sakio Bika & Sven Ottke. There's not a win among them & they were largely uncompetitive with those guys. Even in his defeats Taylor has always been competitive.

Just for the record, for the entirety of this thread. Hopkins is not ducking Green. Give Green a title shot at someone like Tavoris Cloud or Jurgen Braehmer. But he's not a proper world champ yet & he's not 'The Man'

Oh & Roy Jones should've retired after being put to sleep by Johnson. I lost a lot of respect for Calzaghe fighting him & I'd have lost the same if he'd fought Hopkins, which I said at the time I saw as sanctioned murder.

Credit to Green, but he didn't 'become a legend' by beating an old Roy Jones. Unless Trevor Berbick, Pat Lawlor, Stan Harrington & Uriah Grant are legends of the sport.
Once again, The Man is reference to Anthony Mundines nickname
I suppose Leon Spinks is a legend for beating Ali the first time around? I think people have their noses well out of joint seeing Roy Jones Jr KOd by someone they do not believe in. Fair enough, i just like to give credit where it is due sometimes. What puzzles me is people on here think it would still be ok for Hopkins to fight Jones Jr in March while hanging shit on Danny Green? Hopkins has not been that active these past 12 months. Just exactly who will he fight that will be of interest to anybody? Comparing Greens win over Jones jr to that of Berbick over Ali is absurd. Ali was shot after the Thriller In Manilla FFS, Jones jr just came off a good win against Jeff Lacy? This fight effectively ended in 63 seconds!!
Are you for real?? You think that RJJ win over Lacy was a good win?

What planet you on? Lacy is fucking garbage id take anyone with a boxing brain to beat Jeff Lacy, so now RJJ is not shot? Wow!! That's all I can say.