Roy Jones Jr. The ducks he made at supermiddleweight.

[Gojira]

Nigel Benn gave it his all in every fight, even if he was a punch away from getting dropped he would still press forward.

i dont see this from roy jones.
jones looked good against people he knew he could beat but when he was hit hard, he curled up into a ball as seen against danny green.

[Lead Cenobite]

You seem a little defensive pisspac. It's not really like you. did you take a couple of vicodins too many?

Not defensive. Just bored of the same old **** after what, over 6+ years around here. Same **** different day.

[Lead Cenobite]

he said he wanted to fight him in his own backyard. jones is the man and called the shots AS YOU SAID, why should have gone to the UK? and there was a video posted a while back with jones' explaining those fights and what was offered and why those fights didn't happen. I can't find the video but you're a regular on this site, you should have seen them several times by now.

Yeah I think it's before the Eric Lucas fight. It's on youtube. I dunno if it's still there but it was Jones answers his critics. He sits in the ring with a mic and answers questions from various boxing commentators.

[BattlingNelson]

he said he wanted to fight him in his own backyard. jones is the man and called the shots AS YOU SAID, why should have gone to the UK? and there was a video posted a while back with jones' explaining those fights and what was offered and why those fights didn't happen. I can't find the video but you're a regular on this site, you should have seen them several times by now.

I'm afraid I missed them.

exactly my thoughts

Even if the brits were reluctant there was still plenty of yanks that would have looked good on his resumé: Nunn, Liles etc. I find it pathetic that the highest ranked opponent he faced was Vinny Paz....................

[S A M U R A I]

eubank, calzaghe, stated to the world their unintrest in fighting roy jones

You make it sound so simple. It doesn't explain articles like these from as far back as 2000 and 2001:





The only article I've seen which states anything remotely resembling an unwillingness to face Jones was where he said, if they fought, he'd want to be paid the crown ***els. Calzaghe bashers will take that as meaning he wasn't prepared to fight Jones at all. Level-headed people will see it for what it is -- a suggestion that he would require a very good payday for taking the risk, should the fight ever arise. That's never been solid evidence of absolute unwillingness to fight Jones.



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[BattlingNelson]

Not defensive. Just bored of the same old **** after what, over 6+ years around here. Same **** different day.

And yet you still come back to the same old boring ****?

[-Swizzy-]

I'm afraid I missed them.



Even if the brits were reluctant there was still plenty of yanks that would have looked good on his resumé: Nunn, Liles etc. I find it pathetic that the highest ranked opponent he faced was Vinny Paz....................

correction: James Toney

[Lead Cenobite]

You make it sound so simple. It doesn't explain articles like these from as far back as 2000 and 2001:





The only article I've seen which states anything remotely resembling an unwillingness to face Jones was where he said, if they fought, he'd want to be paid the crown ***els. Calzaghe bashers will take that as meaning he wasn't prepared to fight Jones at all. Level-headed people will see it for what it is -- a suggestion that he would require a very good payday for taking the risk, should the fight ever arise. That's never been solid evidence of absolute unwillingness to fight Jones.

Even Frank Warren came out and said the Joe was not sure of his own abilities until he fought Lacy.

[BattlingNelson]

correction: James Toney

Oh yeah. He got the no. 1 ranking by beating Toney. After that his best win was Vinny Paz. ......

[Calilloyd]

No I don't. In 1993 and 1994 Eubank was an undefeated champion. Even after his loss to Collins he would still have been a much better opponent than Lucas. See?

The only thing I see is that Eubank was past his prime at the time you say that Jones "ducked him" What he did 2-3 years before that irrelevent. I'll also point out that Lucas was far more sucessful than Eubank was during the stretch folloing the Jones fight. If Jones had fought Eubank you would have quickly pointed that out with,"why did he never fight Eric Lucas?".