Julio César Chávez introduced me to boxing but Roy Jones made me fall in love. It was like watching a superhero in there. Like others touched on, his attributes were off the charts.
I wish he would’ve fought Jirov at CW after the Ruiz fight, slowly dropped back down to LHW and then fighter Tarver and retire.
Unfortunately he was another athlete that had to fight past his experation tag because of money issues.
Two fights I really wanted to see was against Darius Michaeosfjhrbfhdjfkfn and Calslappy in Roy’s prime. But Calslappy didn’t want those problems.
Of all the crazy shit Roy did in the ring, the most mind bottling thing to me is the one where he waits for his opponent to jab, but before it lands Roy hits him with a jab and straight right hand.
It’s in the vid in the op toward the end. I’m too lazy to time stamp it. But every time I see it it blows my mind. Before the guy can land one punch, Roy lands two.
It’s the example of what Roy would have been like if had boxed traditionally, without all the awesome shuck and jive stuff. I think he probably needed the fancy shit to be at the riddum he wanted to be at. But you have to wonder if he had applied his natural gifts to a more boring, traditional style.
Roy Jones was incredible. We’ll probably never see anything like him again. I feel fortunate to have grown up watching him. My older brother was heavily into boxing and had a bunch of the Jones fights taped.
