Roy Jones Jr has lost the last 3 of his fights, and he looks rather washed up... is it possible he can come back and have one last fling at the title?
Through history some fighters have in fact done that, lets looks at Ray Robinson retired from boxing in 1952 and had a 3 year layoff, he came back in 1955 and lost a decision to ralph jones, in his next 4 fights leading up to the bobo olson fight, experts said he wasnt the same fighrt he once was.
But in that fight he knocked out Olson in 2 rounds.
Muhammed Ali is another example when he came back from his layoff from boxing, he lost to Frazier and Ken Nortan, and experts said at the time he would never have a chance in beating Forman. But as we already know Ali infact beat Foreman with ease...
These are just some examples...
Who else do you know of who have shown their age and were written off by boxing experts as being to old, but yet came back to make a big impact..
Fighters come back against the odds.
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walcott when he lossed to layne, HUGE UPSET, times reported "walcotts age had caught up to him."Who else do you know of who have shown their age and were written off by boxing experts as being to old, but yet came back to make a big impact
walcotts next fight he beat charles twice then gave marciano the fight of his life.
fact was, walcott simply took the slugger very lightly, and let layne outwork him, and walcott was a little overweight and out of shape and had an off night.
others
-foreman after morrison loss
- ed jofre in his comeback
- leonard before hagler fight
- duran after laing fight
- hearns before hill fight
- toney after drake thazdi loss
- charles after 4th walcott fight, then he came back to give the fight of his life for one last fight in the 1st marciano fight.
- EVANDER HOLYFIELD AFTER 3RD BOWE FIGHT, went on to knock out tyson
- robinson after tiger jones loss- his own wife told him how washed up he looked
- i could go on and on