What happned to Roy....

[AdamGB]

Ybe mentality has a bit to do with it but the long and short of it is that he was a good boxer and an outstanding athlete. Hes in his 40s...

[DaxxKahn]

Everything about Roy was based on his Athleticism he was never a defensive genius, he was never an offensive genius....

Roy had speed that allowed him to be slick and move around the ring like he was on ice, he had speed that allowed him to be first to the punch, he had speed that allowed to to fight with his hands low because he could dodge and avoid most punches....

He was a phenom...But it all came down to amazing reflexes....Nothing more nothing less...

Those are the first thing to go in a fighter....Roy was never a plan B person....a fighter can not learn too many new trick after a certain age because their body wont allow it...The body becomes trained to do certain things and it can not untrain itself....

Add the ego of Jones and his Back to Back KO losses to Tarver and Johnson he could not mentally get past...If you listen to him today it is as if he believes it was a fluke that those happened.....

So his reflexes and ego both took blast at the same time.....

[skel1983]

Ybe mentality has a bit to do with it but the long and short of it is that he was a good boxer and an outstanding athlete. Hes in his 40s...

Adam what is your opinion on the weight issue as a bit of an expert on this, I am no expert but I think it's a bit over the top as the reason he went on the downward spiral.

Against Ruiz he weighed 193 lbs with most of his clothes on didn't fight for seven months that was at 175, now how much do you think he weighed on both nights of the two fights??

Surely at 175 he puts on a bit of weight over night say between 6-12 lbs and for the Ruiz fight he would be about the same, so lets say 195 tops for Ruiz and 183 for your usual 175 fight, that's 12 lbs to loose in 7 months most fighter loose that in the last three weeks of camp, maybe I am way off the mark here but surely it is a bit over the top the weight dropping issue as to why he got old.

[JonesJrMayweather]

Ybe mentality has a bit to do with it but the long and short of it is that he was a good boxer and an outstanding athlete. Hes in his 40s...

Adam what is your opinion on the weight issue as a bit of an expert on this, I am no expert but I think it's a bit over the top as the reason he went on the downward spiral.

Against Ruiz he weighed 193 lbs with most of his clothes on didn't fight for seven months that was at 175, now how much do you think he weighed on both nights of the two fights??

Surely at 175 he puts on a bit of weight over night say between 6-12 lbs and for the Ruiz fight he would be about the same, so lets say 195 tops for Ruiz and 183 for your usual 175 fight, that's 12 lbs to loose in 7 months most fighter loose that in the last three weeks of camp, maybe I am way off the mark here but surely it is a bit over the top the weight dropping issue as to why he got old.

Roy jones was small a LHW, and even on the night of the bouts he weighed the same as he did during the weigh ins, maybe 2 pounds over. Never seen him higher than 176, until the ruiz fight.

[Boxer4life]

THe thing is if you look at his body after his return to lhw, u can see it didnt look the same, it dint move the same, his punches were thrown difrently, i have a feeling if he never went up to heaveweight he coulda still compete at a high level