Khaosai-Galaxy wrote:I would love nothing more than Calzaghe to stop Jones, but i just don't think thats whats going to 'appen.
This really is an excellent fight, if you can put aside the boxrec forum faux-snobbery for 5 effing minutes
It's a very interesting fight- I'll call it a good one if it does indeed turn out to be so.
Contrary to popular opinion I do not believe that Jones is truly 'shot'. When you consider the multitude of ex-journeymen and even champs who can barely slur their way through a sentence, who's hands shake uncontrollably when not otherwise unengaged, Roy Jones is in comparison, a picture of health. His consecutive KO losses to Tarver and Johnson have quite naturally placed some fairly substantial questionmarks over his condition but amid the torrent of "I-told-you-so's", media speculation and assumptions the answer(s) to those questions have never really become manifest. Accordingly, I'm not going to try and end the whole debate on the spot with my convoluted theory on why this happened but I will submit that whatever the problem may have been, it's as close to subsiding as it ever will be. Also, I honestly think that his recent string a reletively unremarkable victories is a consequence of both father time and a natural reluctance to do anything more than neccecary to get the W.
The bottom line is this. Roy Jones is a boxing prodigy, a once-in-a-generation anomally and if enough of those sublime skills are left in the well (particularly that breathtaking left hook) for one last great performance, Joe Calzaghe, as gifted as he is, could find himself being the recipient of a memorable defeat.
Personally, I don't think so. My forecast panders to the conventional wisdom that Joe's activity will be too much but that remains to be seen and I think that RJJ is a far more courageous selection of oppnent than people seem to be giving Calzaghe credit for.
P S The weigh in.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYhx4k5T1g