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I look at it like this. Roy is a great boxer, his place in history will go up there with Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Joe Luis. Greatness doesn't lose. Tyson will be there with great boxing villians, great punchers the the great boxers beat like Tommy Hearn, Sonny Listen, a young George Foreman and Jack Dempsey. Great punchers, but are bound to get beat. Lennox is a great boxer, but isn't great unless his sharing the spotlight. His a bigger version of Joe Frazier, or Larry Holmes. Vitali is a good fighter looking for a shot, that one fight to make him great, like all great when they are young, though Vitali is 31 already... lol. In the end, I see either Vitali or Roy Jones coming out as the champ. Vitali is going to be Lennox, and Roy will beat Tyson, because Tyson doesn't want it anymore. Then Vitali and Roy will fight, and that will be great.
Jones maybe a great fighter (he can't be put in the same class as Ali, or Louis) but when he's barely 6'0 and 200lbs, he stands no chance against Tyson, and defintyl has no chance against Lewis or Vitali.
Quote from: VerbalAssaulta on July 17, 2003, 05:16:51 PMthis is bull shit news...its not signed...not even on cnnsi.com or espn..dont report fake rumors Those are real quotes. Jones is going to Kenya to promote his fight in Kenya on November. It didn't say it was signed it said it was betwwen either Lewis or Tyson, but since Lewis is fighting Klitschko in the fall, it will be Tyson who will most likely face Jones in November. If you read the article you would see that the fight isn't signed but Jones will be fighting in Kenya on November 8. Read before you make a stupid calm of a fake rumour.To see where this article came from go to www.tsn.ca/boxingGuess what I just checked ESPN's boxing site, and do you know what? The rumour there too. So don't say it's not on ESPN's website without checking it 1st. http://espn.go.com/boxing/index.html
this is bull shit news...its not signed...not even on cnnsi.com or espn..dont report fake rumors
Quote from: The French Dibbler on July 19, 2003, 09:13:39 AMJones maybe a great fighter (he can't be put in the same class as Ali, or Louis) but when he's barely 6'0 and 200lbs, he stands no chance against Tyson, and defintyl has no chance against Lewis or Vitali.Jones is a great fight in the same class as Ali and Louis, his proven it. Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, he did it all. Made Bernie Hopkins look like another chump. Had many other fighter afraid to see him. You think any fighter really wanted to have him move down in weight class to see them. Oscar De La Hoya, Hopkins, Tito, all of them didn't want to see him. So he moved to heavyweight. He will be know as one of the greatest pound for pound fighters with the Sugar Rays and Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns.Now as for why he would win. First off Tyson is done, and he was never that big in size. Now Tyson in 1988 would be a first round knockout, but Tyson isn't as fast as he used to be, his not as hungry. Tyson has issues that he needs to handle, but he can't because he needs to box to make money to pay off all the money Don King ripped of from him. Tyson is done as a fighter, his 37,38 and would retire if he could. Roy will fustrate Tyson, and Tyson will not hit Jones well, as Jones knows what his fighting. You act like Jones is going to let Tyson hit him. Please, would you. Vitali will beat Lewis because Lewis thinks he won the last fight, and wouldn't be any better prepared. This time I don't think Vitali will get hit like he did before. He'll knock out Lewis. If it wasn't for the cut, Lewis would have been knockout. Then we have Vitali vs. Roy, and Roy will treat Vitali like John Ruiz, because they move with the same grace in the ring *sarcasim* only Vitali hits a lot harder. Jones wouldn't get hit though. He wouldn't take a fight unless he knows he can win. I think Jones will win. He might lose to Lewis if that ever happens, but my money is on Roy winning that one too. That would be his tuffest fight, and Lewis is starting to look like his ready to leave boxing.
About fighters ducking Jones, you'll notice that Oscar De La Hoyais only about 160lbs and it's not that easy to gain 30lbs to move up to Jones category. Hopkins was trying to get a fight with Jones, Hopkins was going to move up a weight class if Jones was willing to move down a weight class. But Jones didn't want to do that.And Tito is 150-165lbs and is retired so there wasn't any chance of that fight.Tyson has the punchers chance. Lewis will win the rematch because if you look at Lewis' history, everytime he's not ready for a fight and loses or looks bad. He trainers harder and destorys the guy in the rematch.If you knew something about boxing you'll notice that you can't compare Vitali to Ruiz. Ruiz was a guy who against Jones didn't take any chances, and he kept on bending down to the height of Jones so he never really had a height advantage because Ruiz took that away. Vitali is way better then Ruiz and you can't compare the two.
If Vitali Klitschko beats Lewis I will leave this board foreverIt's not going to happen
LOL... I like the way you doubt Roy Jones though. Come on, the guy has moved from middleweight, to light-heavyweight, to heavyweight. His already being talked about with the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson as the greatest pound for pound fighter ever. And he could beat a super heavyweight. Ruiz was more than a paper champion. That's your only arguement, but he did beat three top challengers before losing to Roy. And he did beat Holyfield when people still though Holyfield was a great fighter, granted a boring ass fight, but still. Roy just isn't going to allow a heavyweight to lean on them, and bully him around. His too fast for that. And Vitali will beat Lewis. Lewis is the better fighter, but he will write of Vitali, again, and lose, again. Vitali may have heart, but he can't move well enought to beat Roy. I've watched a lot of boxing, to say I don't know shit about boxing is bullshit. I think Roy can win. He wouldn't take a fight unless he knows he can win. This super-heavyweights gots people gased up on the real.