Roy Jones, where did it all go wrong?

[marbleheadmaui]

RJJ was not by any means an "ATG" He couldn't fight much and he benefited from an incredibly weak era. In the 1930s/40s and so on he is, at best, an 8 round fighter,.

If you took the say 1997 Roy and just dumped him into the late 1970's or the 1940's he'd have gotten whacked around. His technical flaws would have been red meat for those guys.

But think about this. Roy Jones being born in 1915 and taking up the sport as a ten year old. He gets trained at Stillman's by a guy like Arcel or Goldman or Jack Blackburn so he is technically sound, gets tempered the way fighters did then and still retains his otherworldly athleticism?

WOW!