What Caused Roy Jones Jr.'s Decline? Steroid use or father time catching up with him?

[sbbigmike]

Pre failed test
42-1 with 34 ko's which could have easily been 43-0 with 35 ko's

Post failed test
14-7 with only 6 ko's

That's all you need to know about Roy

[TyrantT316]

A blind left hand by a fighter who slept and breathed every thought of fighting him.

[Big_L]

post his whole win lose record and ko's before he was popped an after whats so hard about that

so getting knocked out by denis lebedev at 40+ years old helps prove that he was on sterioids his whole career?

your making the assumption that he quit steroids after the hall fight. he was 5-0 with 4 stoppages at lt. heavyweight after that over the next 3 years prior to making the jump. shouldn't they have stopped working by then???

[Big_L]

Pre failed test
42-1 with 34 ko's which could have easily been 43-0 with 35 ko's

Post failed test
14-7 with only 6 ko's

That's all you need to know about Roy

now compare his record pre-heavyweight to post-heavyweight. and you will see the real reason.

[bose]

People forgetting Roy didn't get ko'd untill after he rematched Tarver. Didn't happen in his first fight after his heavyweight fight.

Fight with Ruiz, Roy 205
1st fight with Tarver at 175 = Roy won by MD (people thought Tarver won)
2nd fight with Tarver at 175 = Roy got ko'd

Roy finally fought a spirited fighter (it had been awhile) . A fighter that beat him in the amatures. Steroids could have played a role.

[Doctor_Tenma]

He didn't adjust during his decline much like Floyd is now or Hopkins, he always wanted to put on a show and fight like a young Roy when he wasn't that. I always say stubbornness got the best of him.

[sbbigmike]

now compare his record pre-heavyweight to post-heavyweight. and you will see the real reason.

Lets not act like roy put on 35-40 pounds of muscle he simply fought at his walk around weight, if you watched Roy like I did you'll notice after he was popped his whole muscle definition changed he was ripped from front to back shredded like a horse, after he was popped his face became sunken he had back flab and he no longer was nimble on his feet he had to sit on the ropes to get his counters off.....

Roy was a ****ing roiding cheat, deal with it......

[Big_L]

Lets not act like roy put on 35-40 pounds of muscle he simply fought at his walk around weight, if you watched Roy like I did you'll notice after he was popped his whole muscle definition changed he was ripped from front to back shredded like a horse, after he was popped his face became sunken he had back flab and he no longer was nimble on his feet he had to sit on the ropes to get his counters off.....

Roy was a ****ing roiding cheat, deal with it......

roy's body changed AFTER ruiz. which only proves my point that the weight ****ed his body up.

[Jc8804]

He didnt take steroids he accidently took
A type of fat burner . Forgot name. But i took that around thebsame time to and ran my arce off. Lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks.

Roys weight loss to burn muscle after ruiz in which he was 205
Down to 175. He burned his body to gain all the muscle and then shed it. It was evident in the tarver 1 fight. An tarver 2 he had no more punch resistance.

Roy is better prime then floyd , same size and weight , roy beats floyd worse then he did toney

[Big_L]

roy's fight night weight vs. gonzalez was 176. how the **** do you figure he walked around over 190? gtfoh...Roy was like Hopkins and Floyd. he always stayed in shape.


roy actually weighed 199 vs. ruiz. watch a documentary called "the sweet science". mark ratner read the scale wrong.