What happned to Roy....

[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