Quote Originally Posted by albsur2006
Jones is definitely greater. B-Hop is great as well, but Jones was simply unstoppable. The guy won titles all the way from middleweight to heavyweight. That has to count for something, not to mention, Jones beat B-Hop and would have beat him again if they fought in 2002 or 2003 when RJJ said to Hopkins on HBO during an interview with B-Hop about a possible fight "Gimme 60/40 and I'll whup yo a**!!!"
-Well thats kinda ironic how mr.unstoppable got stopped.Twice.Then you say roy would have beat him in 2002-03.Well thats your opinion but alot of people thought he would beat tarver.

-Did you notice in that same interview after his fight how roy mentioned tarver but then never gave him a chance until he crashed his press conference a year later and pissed him off even though tarver was his mandatory.I didn't want to believe that roy ducked this guy but looking back now it kinda seems that way.But as far as this debate goes i'll stick with MILES and say they were both great.I can't put one over the other. But i will say roy was the better athlete but hop was the better boxer.

-P.S. As far as that 60/40 thing goes. Its funny how roy wouldn't take 50/50 with hop but then goes onto fight clinton woods. In a 50/50 split with how big that fight would have been 50% would have been way more than what he got to fight woods. Thats when i knew it wasn't about money. Truth is i don't think he wanted to fight hop again.Roy ain't stupid he knew hop wouldn't go for anything less than 50/50 and thats why he said it.

-P.P.S The one thing i don't agree on in this article is how roy was a shell of his former self. Maybe he was by the time he fought johnson but no sooner. IMO a fighter don't go from great to a shell of his former self in one fight. He used SRL as an example but SRL was already showing the signs before norris beat him. SRR showed the signs,Ali showed the signs but roy was great in 2003 then hes a shell in 2004. I don't buy that.