Much as I hate the boring, arrogant prick, how in the living FUCK is Canelo greater than Ward?
Honeyghan have a chance? Or is Shane just too good?
Michael Grant looked like possibly the next Bowe coming up the ranks. I would say the first warning sign was when he went the distance with Lou...
I always put more stock in actual wins, than doing well in a loss. But if thats the road you wanna go down.. McGirt did a helluva lot better...
Bojado's talent was legit. Maybe not all time great legit, but he certainly had the talent to be a championship level fighter. He was a lazy MF,...
I doubt Roy fancied his odds against Lewis. But Holy? Well, he wasn't scared to fight the guy who by that time was having success against Holy....
Larry Merchant summed it up well after the Brannon fight. He said something like, "We can be critical of his competition, but tonight we saw what...
While not his best opponent, but for pure entertainment, I love the Hall fight. For single-moment excellence - the KD on Reggie Johnson was just...
Inspired by the previous thread. What are some of yalls memories of the time when Roy dominated the spotlight on here? Beyond the obvious, which...
Point taken. I see what you mean, and I agree. I was also young at the peak of Tyson craze in the 80s. I know Mike was thought of as unbeatable,...
Jones-Tarver II was more SHOCKING than Tyson-Douglas, but Tyson-Douglas was the bigger upset. Especially amongst us hardcores, because Roy was...
Nah, Showtime in the U.S. aired it. I recorded it on VHS lol. UK fights weren't aired nearly as much back then, but Showtime started covering...
Totally and completely random, but didn't Floyd-Castillo 1 happen the same night as Calzaghe-Brewer? My memory seems to recall being depressed as...
Those Tarver-Jones fights remain some of the deepest threads ever on the various forums. It wasn't a super fight in the mainstream, but here and...
I will say that Toney would find Duran a harder target than face-first guys like Barkley and Prince Charles.
I can't speak for all Roy fans, but I was saying as early as the Derrick Harmon fight that Roy was slipping. The Hall fight was his last vintage...
The dream scenario for any Roy fan would have been the Lewis fight. It would have been the ultimate no-lose situation. In the 99% chance that Roy...
Probably, but to his credit, he wanted to the erase the doubt. That pissed off the Roy haters at the time, because they painted Roy as a pussy....
Exactly. So many have forgotten that Roy won the first round easily. At no point before the KO do I think Roy was scared of Tarver. They grew up...
I don't think Roy was spooked. Had he been spooked, he would have never given Tarver the rematch. There were a lot of his fans calling for him to...
Tarver's mouth managed to change the entire legacy of a man. Roy had ZERO intention of going back to 175. His initial plan was to land a...
What really killed Roy was the choice of opponent after the Tarver rematch - Johnson. At the time, we all thought Glenn Johnson was a total bum,...
It should only count against him if he was young. Like how Don Curry went from invincible to dog shit at 24. Roy was 35 years old when he lost...
My final thoughts on this list as a whole is that it's not terrible, save for Canelo at 10. Also, Holy is greater than Tito and Oscar if his...
Duran stands a chance in a realistic situation, because Toney always blew hot-cold. If he's cold, Duran would beat him. But since MM's always...
It's hard for young fans to comprehend the aura around prime Roy. And no, this isn't directed at George, since he's a young historian, I'm...
The Floyd vs Roy comparison is actually VERY VERY similar to the Kobe vs Jordan comparison, for anyone who knows b-ball. Kobe was more skilled...
In the early 00s, I remember that MM was posed: Roy vs Floyd, P4P. I'll never forget that Muzse did a BRILLIANT, and thorough breakd own of why...
Roy was significantly more athletic than Floyd - the gap isn't small. Not at all to say that Floyd WASN'T super, super athletic, but Jones had a...
While I wouldn't go as far as to say they were two different levels, I think Buddy was clearly better than Cotto, and would win a convincing UD....
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