Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Roy's defense wasn't good? Watch all his fights from 89 to the John Ruiz fight and you tell me how many good, hard FLUSH shots he took to the chin.

Jones, like any great, only went to the ropes when he felt it was advantageous to him. He would often INVITE guys to come in and fire at him when he was on the ropes. And he would ALWAYS get the better of the exchanges with his lightning fast hands and power.
Yeah, I reckon his defence was shite to be honest. His offence was awesome though. His opponents were to busy thinking of that to just let their hands go. He used the ropes more and more as the years went by but the competition never really went up. Glen Kelly is a good example. He was a nothing really and Jones knocked him out, from the ropes. Even Woods, most of Jones fight was off the ropes. His hands still had the speed to get away with it. Its only when he juiced to get up to fight Ruiz and had to come back off, that Tarver pushed him to fight. Again off the ropes then when Tarver had absolutely no respect for him did he just walk right through him in the rematch