
Originally Posted by
TitoFan
Good topic.
I think your 2nd sentence is the key. The Jones of old just didn't get hit squarely and flush. Even when tagged, he was moving away from the shot. So basically we never (or rarely) saw Jones' chin tested as we've seen practically every other fighter at some point in their careers. Therefore, it's hard to tell if the chin was already suspect from the very beginning, because nobody was fast or good enough to test it. Then came the 2nd Tarver fight.....
To me the fight that raised my eyebrows about Roy wasn't the KO loss to Tarver. It was the fight immediately following that one, the KO loss to Johnson. You can sort of excuse the loss to Tarver, saying Tarver was a sneaky southpaw with one-punch knockout power who just surprised Jones. But getting knocked out by Glen Johnson?? No way in hell a prime, healthy, cobra-like Jones loses to Johnson. I think the Tarver fight just "painted a bullseye on that button on Roy's chin." It was there to be hit.... and it was susceptible.
It saddens me that someone as great as Jones Jr. has been has suffered through so many ugly knockout losses.
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