James Toney v.s Roy Jones Jr

[Bad_Intentions]

if toney would of taken his training for roy jones serious do you think toney would pick a SD against roy?

[sweet_scientist]

Toney could never, even at his absolute best, outbox Roy Jones. He might have a slight chance to KO him, but he'd never win more than 4 rounds, no matter what shape he was in.

[young griffo]

Jones beats him easy every day of the week.

[Bad_Intentions]

No.Yes.

[Minotauro]

It would have been closer but I think Roy's speed would still be a problem for Toney. I'm guessing something like 116-112 Jones.

[Bad_Intentions]

You think Toney beats him?IF toney trains hard enough which he didn't. then he would take a DECISION over roy. :good

[Bad_Intentions]

oh well.

toney was 46-0 before facing jones.

thats a great record tho.

[rekcutnevets]

I am in agreement with most of what Sweet Pea says.

Jones style is all wrong for Toney.

[RAMPAGE0017]

Nope. Toney was outboxed by many boxers people figured he would run over. His boxing "skill" is overrated. People supposedly as good as him didn't get outboxed by the people he did.

Then comes the style matchup. Toney was a stationary counter-puncher, he relied on his timing to catch you and counter punch you. Against Jones, he couldn't time or defend against his quickness, ever. Jones was a terrible matchup for counter-punchers in his prime. Too quick and too hard to time. He could pot-shot and out-point them all day, especially a stationary one like Toney. Toney would never have beaten Jones. It might've been a closer fight had it been a 100% Toney, but to say he wins is like saying Corrales beats Mayweather had he been 100%. Even at his A-game, Roy was just a bad matchup for him. There was nothing AT ALL to suggest that Toney could ever do any better, he just got outclassed.


Couldn't have said it better myself.

[jimmie]

Are u trying to tell me that in a matchup between a Super Middleweight unbeaten Champion vs unbeaten Middleweight Champion live on HBO PPV between 2 top 10 fighters in the p4p rankings in a fight that was compared to Hearns-Leonard that James Toney didnt take training seriously ? If he didnt train hard how the fuck did he lose like 35 pounds in camp ?

[McGrain]

if toney would of taken his training for roy jones serious do you think toney would pick a SD against roy?


Possible. I still lean towards Jones.

[fists of fury]

Struggling to make weight and not taking a fight seriously are two very different things.

Jones was, and always would be, too damn quick for Toney, who was actually a better technical boxer.
Toney's punchrate dropped alarmingly when he was countered off the charts.