Name Some ATG Fighters Who Avoided Fighters?

[GJC]

GJC.. i am surprised at you

there is upwards of 100+ links on this subject to be got on Google.com

Sonny I have no doubt that you can find newspaper clips for much of what you say. Thing is I don't believe all I read in newspapers and generally take articles with a pinch of salt or figure out what is more likely.

By the time this article was written I would imagine that Jones was at least in talks to fight Tarver? So he has to drop 20lbs of pretty much muscle which is no easy feat so if he had started some training to lose this weight he is committed to not fighting at HW against anyone. If he was keen to continue fighting at HW why not Tyson?
The public would have paid to see it and Tyson would have certainly gone for it after the Lewis defeat. Also by now Tyson's speed has pretty much gone and like Ruiz his size isn't excessive for a MW/LHW to fight.

Doesn't add up Sonny, you must know that surely?

[sonnyboyx2]

Sonny I have no doubt that you can find newspaper clips for much of what you say. Thing is I don't believe all I read in newspapers and generally take articles with a pinch of salt or figure out what is more likely.

By the time this article was written I would imagine that Jones was at least in talks to fight Tarver? So he has to drop 20lbs of pretty much muscle which is no easy feat so if he had started some training to lose this weight he is committed to not fighting at HW against anyone. If he was keen to continue fighting at HW why not Tyson?
The public would have paid to see it and Tyson would have certainly gone for it after the Lewis defeat. Also by now Tyson's speed has pretty much gone and like Ruiz his size isn't excessive for a MW/LHW to fight.

Doesn't add up Sonny, you must know that surely?

like i said... Jones shouted for a Tyson , Holyfield & Lewis fight from 2000 onwards... HBOs Boxing after dark even ran a show building up a Jones vs Lewis fight

[GJC]

maybe your mind is playing games with you GJC... surely you can remmember Roy Jones Jr. shouting for a fight with Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield & Lennox Lewis from 2000 onwards.

But I take about as much notice of that stuff as I do some starlet saying she has screwed Warren Beatty and the like.
If Roy Jones wanted to fight Mike Tyson after he beat Ruiz there is nothing that would have stopped that fight if he wanted it to happen. Tyson was finished and shot he would have fought Hulk Hogan for a decent purse. Jones is @ HW can see Tyson is shot so why didn't the fight happen?

[TheGreatA]

I fail to see how talks of a potential Roy Jones vs Lennox Lewis match-up equals to Lewis turning down an offer to fight Jones and ducking him. Jones also made it quite clear at the time that he was looking to fight Holyfield or Tyson but ended up going back to LHW to fight Tarver.

Then again this is the same man who thinks Tyson paying Lewis millions not to fight him and Bowe throwing a belt in the trash can instead of facing his mandatory contender means Lewis was ducking them. Flawed logic.

[GJC]

I fail to see how talks of a potential Roy Jones vs Lennox Lewis match-up equals to Lewis turning down an offer to fight Jones and ducking him. Jones also made it quite clear at the time that he was looking to fight Holyfield or Tyson but ended up going back to LHW to fight Tarver.

Then again this is the same man who thinks Tyson paying Lewis millions not to fight him and Bowe throwing a belt in the trash can instead of facing his mandatory contender means Lewis was ducking them. Flawed logic.

Pretty much my view but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[dagrtst]

Some of the most ridiculous things have been said about Lewis, Tyson and Jones in this thread. It comes to a point where someone needs to shut up and move on.

[Dynamite Kid]

I fail to see how talks of a potential Roy Jones vs Lennox Lewis match-up equals to Lewis turning down an offer to fight Jones and ducking him. Jones also made it quite clear at the time that he was looking to fight Holyfield or Tyson but ended up going back to LHW to fight Tarver.

Then again this is the same man who thinks Tyson paying Lewis millions not to fight him and Bowe throwing a belt in the trash can instead of facing his mandatory contender means Lewis was ducking them. Flawed logic.

Congratulations you just proved your nothing more than a Lennox Lewis nuthugger.

[donkim]

LMAO at the Dynamite Kid trying to get under the skin of somebody on the internet through a sig.

the only one that springs to mind is SRL and his avoiding the fight with pryor.

another could be pbf avoiding the fight with tszyu.

its hard because alot of top quality fighters such as tyson, DLH etc are not ATG but are HOF fighters. i think one of the requirements of being an ATG is that you face everyone out there.

It springs to your mind because you don't know anything about boxing.Aaron Pryor was never in a position to step up and get knocked out by Ray Leonard.

Aaron Pryor himself has confirmed that he turned down half a million to duck the biggest star in boxing at the time and a career high payday.

It's rumored that he did so because he didn't want to be Danny Green'd.


Anybody claiming that Mayweather ducked Tszyu is a moron.Tszyu was hardly fighting by the time Mayweather moved up a class and he wanted a fight with Tszyu.

[sonnyboyx2]

I fail to see how talks of a potential Roy Jones vs Lennox Lewis match-up equals to Lewis turning down an offer to fight Jones and ducking him. Jones also made it quite clear at the time that he was looking to fight Holyfield or Tyson but ended up going back to LHW to fight Tarver.

Then again this is the same man who thinks Tyson paying Lewis millions not to fight him and Bowe throwing a belt in the trash can instead of facing his mandatory contender means Lewis was ducking them. Flawed logic.

The GreatA... here is a link just for you.



you are saying its bad for Bowe to bin a belt.. but nothing should be said when Lewis done it for refusing to fight Byrd & Ruiz... is that correct with you?

[TheGreatA]

The GreatA... here is a link just for you.



you are saying its bad for Bowe to bin a belt.. but nothing should be said when Lewis done it for refusing to fight Byrd & Ruiz... is that correct with you?

As I've explained, the big difference is that Bowe went onto defend his title against Jesse Ferguson & an old Michael Dokes while Lewis took on Michael Grant (call him an overhyped bum but he was top 3 in the division then), Mike Tyson (over the hill, sure, but also the biggest fight to be made at the time) and Vitali Klitschko. Those were the fights that the public wanted. Not Ruiz or Byrd who were boring the audiences to death.