Who did Roy Jones dodge? Please, list the names so we can take a look.
James Toney - 44-0 when Jones beat him. Toney's worst loss of his career and even got knocked down.
Bernard Hopkins - 22-1 when Jones beat him. Hopkins was a bit green but it was the only time in Hopkins career where he clearly lost. His losses against Taylor and Calzaghe were very close, split decision losses. Hopkins believes he won all three. However his only defeat in which he admits to losing is against Roy Jones. That says somethin. Here are a few others he beat:
Mike McCallum - 49-3
Montell Griffin - 26-0
Virgil Hill - 43-2
Julio Cesar Gonzalez - 27-0
Glen Kelly - 28-0
Clinton Woods - 32-1
John Ruiz - 38-4 (heavyweight!)
And the funny thing is he made all of these look bad, in exception to Hopkins.
He beat everyone available to him that was willing to fight. Roy Jones was 49-0 before he legitimately lost a fight. And that was after going to HEAVYWEIGHT, beating Ruiz for a HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP belt, then going back down and losing all that weight in which he got KO'd by Tarver.
Roy's biggest mistakes were 1). Going up to heavyweight then back down too quickly and 2). Getting old.
Think about it - Jones was 49-0 and 34-35 years old by the time he got KO'd. That's impressive. And he won titles in middlweight, supermiddleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. No one has done that before, ever. He beat all the names availible. He didn't duck anyone.
Even Calzaghe said, years ago, that the only man he was scared to fight was Roy Jones. Of course he waits until Jones is 40 years old and way past his prime to fight him. Calzaghe also said Jones was the best fighter of the 1990's! Yes, the 90's, not 2008!
I'm not even a big roy jones fan, but I at least recognize he was one of the most talented fighters the sport has ever seen. Yeah he's looked like shit the last few years because he's got hardly anything left. All he has is hand speed, he doesn't have the cat-like reflexes he once had, which is why he does that shell defense and just allows people to hit him. He never fought like that when he was younger.
