Get it together man!!!! Dariuz sat ringside at the Jones vs Virgil hill fight, witnessed Roy stop a man that had never been stopped with body shot...then hopped his ass on a plane and never went back to the states.
DM was the most overrated of all the so called "european guys that roy ducked",... He would have been toyed with like Richard Hall. Eubank stood the best chance against prime roy, Benn and the rest would have gone to sleep at 160-168....
Eubank states in his own fucking book that its unlikely that he would have beat jones. Futhermore while he was still competing it was him that said if he didnt see way to beat jones that he wouldnt face him. They never fought so... go figure... Benn is probably the only one that really wanted to face face jones, but after he and gman beat the hell out of each other, he would have been torn to shreds by roy..so call that unfortunate timing...
"Sixty forty I kicks yo' ass, Sixty forty I tears yo' ass up" - Roy Jones
Even considering Roy would have won, it absolutely doesn't mean that DM wasn't a very good overall fighter. Plus, all the other points britboys are mostly valid in my opinion, he gave good proof that a lot of the fighters you did mention as underrated in fact were not.
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I'm not saying these fighters are not good, but compared to the hype they get compared to their level of accomplishments and opponents are a little bit unwarranted in my opinion.
For example, Prince Naseem was good just not an elite fighter in my eyes, and same thing with Hatton, but they get trumped up and hyped up a little bit no?
As for Joe Calzaghe, he beat a 43 year old Hopkins and a 39 year old Roy Jones, in my eyes those 2 are way past their primes physically and boxing wise. If this fight had taken place 10 years ago, then yeah it would be something to talk about.
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Wow! glad i seen this post. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but you are bordering on foolish.
Everyone is wise after the event but as someone said if we knew the outcome before the fights had started what would be the point?
I have previously stated that JC is overrated in another thread but i am still a fan. I think he could have had a better career or carried on longer. Hopkins might have been 'past it' but he is still on top today.
I believe Hatton would have lost those 2 fights regardless but switching trainers at such a pivotal moment in his career was not the best move and his years of bad living between fights caught up with him.
Lennox Lewis overrated? just because he wasn't a devastating aggressive monster does not mean he was not great. He beat everyone he faced and his record reads like a who's who of the heavyweight division of his era.
There's a Nigel Benn interview after one of his fights (possibly Mcclellan) I watched it 2 days ago and he says he is prepared to face Jones but in the same sentence he says Jones is a different class. I don't believe for 1 second that Benn would duck anyone. When Jones was the man he refused to travel anywhere and had everything in his favour, now he is washed up he has gone abroad and lost because he has not many other options open to him. Do you believe Jones would have travelled far away from home in his prime to the other guys country with little support?
Naz was a love him or hate him guy. I loved him i loved the way he was so confident and he was a brutal finisher. He lost against MAB, no shame in that but he was not at his best by a mile. Another thing, for his comeback fight he fought Manuel Calvo and boxed his way to a wide decision (has been revealed since that he suffered from damaged hands most probably due to being such a hard hitter). Calvo was the European champ how many guys after suffering their first defeat would go straight back in to that level of fight.
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