Doug Jones' Ranging Weight

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 18 Jul 2004, 06:41

Can you please tell me, what is the range of former Light-Heavyweight and Heavyweight contender Doug Jones' career lowest weight and his career heaviest weight?

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 18 Jul 2004, 16:49

Kovit, Jones was a very good fighter who met the best light-heavies and heavies of his day, including a young Ali whom he gave a very hard fight.
Jones begaun his career as Middleweight scaling 162 at his offical lightest... but within abou a year he was scaling around 171 and fighting both Light-heavies and heavies. Through his peak years Jones yo-yoed between about 171-172 to 184.... fighting both Lightheavies and Heavies. After the mid-60s Jones stuck with the Heavies and his weight rose to about 13 and a half stone.... his heaviest weight towards the end of his career was 194 I think. One of Jones best wins is probably his tko of a young Bob Foster who he outweighed by 8 pounds.

dempseyfire · Post by **dempseyfire** » 18 Jul 2004, 21:17

silkov wrote:Kovit, Jones was a very good fighter who met the best light-heavies and heavies of his day, including a young Ali whom he gave a very hard fight.
Jones begaun his career as Middleweight scaling 162 at his offical lightest... but within abou a year he was scaling around 171 and fighting both Light-heavies and heavies. Through his peak years Jones yo-yoed between about 171-172 to 184.... fighting both Lightheavies and Heavies. After the mid-60s Jones stuck with the Heavies and his weight rose to about 13 and a half stone.... his heaviest weight towards the end of his career was 194 I think. One of Jones best wins is probably his tko of a young Bob Foster who he outweighed by 8 pounds.

That;s one thing that irriates me. Some people who discuss Ali in fantasy matchups mention how a young Ali was troubled by Doug Jones, and since they know nothing about him it sounds like a bad thing. But Jones could trouble ANYBODY. One of the top 20 light HWs of all time, he moved up and fighting in the 180s beat guys much bigger then himself. His Ko of Zora Folley is much more impressive then Jones Jr beating Johnny Ruiz, for example.

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 19 Jul 2004, 01:27

Silkov, actually when I looked at his records with his official weight, Doug Jones acutually weighing in at his heaviest so far was 195lbs against Lou Bailey in 1966.

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 19 Jul 2004, 15:50

dempseyfire wrote:
silkov wrote:Kovit, Jones was a very good fighter who met the best light-heavies and heavies of his day, including a young Ali whom he gave a very hard fight.
Jones begaun his career as Middleweight scaling 162 at his offical lightest... but within abou a year he was scaling around 171 and fighting both Light-heavies and heavies. Through his peak years Jones yo-yoed between about 171-172 to 184.... fighting both Lightheavies and Heavies. After the mid-60s Jones stuck with the Heavies and his weight rose to about 13 and a half stone.... his heaviest weight towards the end of his career was 194 I think. One of Jones best wins is probably his tko of a young Bob Foster who he outweighed by 8 pounds.
That;s one thing that irriates me. Some people who discuss Ali in fantasy matchups mention how a young Ali was troubled by Doug Jones, and since they know nothing about him it sounds like a bad thing. But Jones could trouble ANYBODY. One of the top 20 light HWs of all time, he moved up and fighting in the 180s beat guys much bigger then himself. His Ko of Zora Folley is much more impressive then Jones Jr beating Johnny Ruiz, for example.

Oh I do beg your pardon mate, but I probably know a darn sight more about Jones than you do so get off your high horse!... 8)

dempseyfire · Post by **dempseyfire** » 19 Jul 2004, 16:31

silkov wrote:
dempseyfire wrote:
silkov wrote:Kovit, Jones was a very good fighter who met the best light-heavies and heavies of his day, including a young Ali whom he gave a very hard fight.
Jones begaun his career as Middleweight scaling 162 at his offical lightest... but within abou a year he was scaling around 171 and fighting both Light-heavies and heavies. Through his peak years Jones yo-yoed between about 171-172 to 184.... fighting both Lightheavies and Heavies. After the mid-60s Jones stuck with the Heavies and his weight rose to about 13 and a half stone.... his heaviest weight towards the end of his career was 194 I think. One of Jones best wins is probably his tko of a young Bob Foster who he outweighed by 8 pounds.
That;s one thing that irriates me. Some people who discuss Ali in fantasy matchups mention how a young Ali was troubled by Doug Jones, and since they know nothing about him it sounds like a bad thing. But Jones could trouble ANYBODY. One of the top 20 light HWs of all time, he moved up and fighting in the 180s beat guys much bigger then himself. His Ko of Zora Folley is much more impressive then Jones Jr beating Johnny Ruiz, for example.
Oh I do beg your pardon mate, but I probably know a darn sight more about Jones than you do so get off your high horse!... 8)

??? I thought I was agreeing with you?? I wasn't saying you were irritating me . . .. . .

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 19 Jul 2004, 16:59

dempseyfire wrote:
silkov wrote:
dempseyfire wrote: That;s one thing that irriates me. Some people who discuss Ali in fantasy matchups mention how a young Ali was troubled by Doug Jones, and since they know nothing about him it sounds like a bad thing. But Jones could trouble ANYBODY. One of the top 20 light HWs of all time, he moved up and fighting in the 180s beat guys much bigger then himself. His Ko of Zora Folley is much more impressive then Jones Jr beating Johnny Ruiz, for example.
Oh I do beg your pardon mate, but I probably know a darn sight more about Jones than you do so get off your high horse!... 8)
??? I thought I was agreeing with you?? I wasn't saying you were irritating me . . .. . .

got wrong end of the stick!... :x

:x it's been a long day!!!...

8)

...funny really though!... do you like horses? 8)