Lebedev's KO of Roy is KO of the Year

[ruthless rocco]

roy jones was a my favourite boxer for years and i'm still amazed when i watch his clips especially montages like this one...

in recent years i've had to face the facts and admit to myself that he did not fight the best fighters available and the ones he did fight were often total mismatches. he bravely defended his titles against a part time cop, a bartender and cab driver and looked spectacular doing so. as shown in the clip...

you cannot deny his incredible skills and almost super human agility and speed...but against whom did he choose to display and test his abilities? if you look at the records of the fighters that roy chose to fight on boxrec, at first glace things look pretty solid...but take a look at the fighters that those fighters built their respectable looking records on and you'll see the problem. there's alot of red... alot of red!

he did alot of amazing things inside the ring. things we'll never see anyone do again. he amassed belt like no one else and set the middle to heavy record...but lets be reasonable and look at the whole not just the flash.

Those men don't get to be mandatory challengers for a title unless the sanctioning bodies rank them which means that they were impressive enough to earn title shots. Also alot of the men roy jones defeated were already title holders or won belts after roy beat them. Which is much more impressive than beating men that never fought again.

you may support fighters building and maintaining their records by fighting bums who fought bigger bums to advance their careers; but that doesn't really impress me. it may impress you tho. personal taste i guess... roy could have chosen to fight other fighters if he had really wanted to push himself.

also i think its pretty clear that the sanctioning bodies have taken sacrificed quality for quantity for the sake of making money.