Did Nigel Benn offer Roy Jones a street fight?

ciscokid · Post by **ciscokid** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:15

My mate reckons Nigel Benn went to the US and offered out Roy Jones on his doorstep - has anyone heard anything like this??

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:22

search wrote:
ciscokid wrote:My mate reckons Nigel Benn went to the US and offered out Roy Jones on his doorstep - has anyone heard anything like this??
Roy would have killed him straight away

Do you know the difference between a fight In the ring and a fight In the street?

JC · Post by JC » 26 Jan 2007, 11:26

I've read Benn's autobiography and he makes no mention of that which, if it happened, you would think he would have. In fact he doesn't mention Roy Jones at all as far as I can remember.

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:27

In the street, my moneys on Benn. In the ring, RJJ UD

pundit · Post by **pundit** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:28

ciscokid wrote:My mate reckons Nigel Benn went to the US and offered out Roy Jones on his doorstep - has anyone heard anything like this??

If this is true it would reflect rather negatively on Benn's IQ.

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:29

especially after he found god and all

Wales · Post by **Wales** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:29

ciscokid wrote:My mate reckons Nigel Benn went to the US and offered out Roy Jones on his doorstep - has anyone heard anything like this??

Tell your mate he's talking out of his arse.

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:43

Sounds like another myth to me.

RJJ would have set one of his fighting cocks on the Dark Destroyer and chased him off his Pensacola Porch.

"Sick him, Foghorn! That's right, boy! Use those claws! Roy Jones never raised no rooster to be a fool!"

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:52

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Sounds like another myth to me.

RJJ would have set one of his fighting cocks on the Dark Destroyer and chased him off his Pensacola Porch.

"Sick him, Foghorn! That's right, boy! Use those claws! Roy Jones never raised no rooster to be a fool!"

NOt only his roosters but his pitbuls would have been chasing the Dark Destroyer all the way back to East Ham.

Tell your mate he is full of shit. Benn would have whupped RJJ if they fought in a dark alley but I am sure he never literally 'door stepped' lil roy!

Greg Nicholas · Post by **Greg Nicholas** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:58

Benn would have killed him.

Greg Nicholas · Post by **Greg Nicholas** » 26 Jan 2007, 11:59

But I seriously doubt this is true. Why would it be??

However, there was a rumoured confrontation in LA between Benn and James Toney in '94.

Greg Nicholas · Post by **Greg Nicholas** » 26 Jan 2007, 12:01

Also Iran Barkley offered to fight Benn in the parking lot to 'finish what we started', at the post-fight presser. (and Barkley was deadly serious)

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 12:03

Greg Nicholas wrote:Also Iran Barkley offered to fight Benn in the parking lot to 'finish what we started', at the post-fight presser. (and Barkley was deadly serious)

Barkley was famously a member of a vicious NY street gang as a youth - I am sure he would have given Benn a run for his money in a no rules straightener!

dondada · Post by **dondada** » 26 Jan 2007, 12:21

Greg Nicholas wrote:Also Iran Barkley offered to fight Benn in the parking lot to 'finish what we started', at the post-fight presser. (and Barkley was deadly serious)

I'm sure he was. Unfortunately the half-blind Barkley had just been battered inside the ropes...which is where the action is supposed to take place.

I'm a big Barkley fan...bet he was gutted at how his match with Nige turned out. Not just the loss but the manner of it.

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 26 Jan 2007, 12:28

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Sounds like another myth to me.

RJJ would have set one of his fighting cocks on the Dark Destroyer and chased him off his Pensacola Porch.

"Sick him, Foghorn! That's right, boy! Use those claws! Roy Jones never raised no rooster to be a fool!"

Boy....I say boy......I say you get on out of ....heeee-heeee, I say you get on out of here y'hear.

Foghorn Leghorn...a quality cartoon and no mistake.

I'd have loved to have seen Benn, Toney, Barkley, and Steve Collins in a royal rumble in a somerfields carpark in Doncaster.

Greg Nicholas · Post by **Greg Nicholas** » 26 Jan 2007, 13:26

Paul Ince says he once saw Nige take out three fully grown men at once when they were 14-15.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 26 Jan 2007, 14:55

ciscokid wrote:My mate reckons Nigel Benn went to the US and offered out Roy Jones on his doorstep - has anyone heard anything like this??

I doubt this very much.

I followed Benns career closely since his won the ABA's and have never heard of him visiting Jones Jr's house, never mind 'offering him out' on his doorstep.

I did here something about them having a very brief conversation on the phone once about fighting each other, but Benn was going throught a very messy divorce at the time and told Jones Jr they could talk more when his divorce was sorted out and his head was straight, (something like that anyway).

ciscokid · Post by **ciscokid** » 26 Jan 2007, 15:47

Greg Nicholas wrote:But I seriously doubt this is true. Why would it be??

However, there was a rumoured confrontation in LA between Benn and James Toney in '94.

Ah ha! - Maybe this is what he was muttering about...

Greg - can you enlight us any further???

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 15:50

search wrote: people actually think Benn would hvae had a chance!

IMAGINE how FAST Roy would have been back then.... WITHOUT GLOVES!

He would have hit Benn like lightning and KO'd him at once.

Benn was a street fighter throughout his youth, a right gritty ba5tard (ex sqauddie - for what its worth) and an uncompromising type to say the least.

On the street Roy's super quick triple left hook would count for nothing - Benn by vicious head stomp IMO..

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 15:54

TerribleTerry wrote:
search wrote: people actually think Benn would hvae had a chance!

IMAGINE how FAST Roy would have been back then.... WITHOUT GLOVES!

He would have hit Benn like lightning and KO'd him at once.
Benn was a street fighter throughout his youth, a right gritty ba5tard (ex sqauddie - for what its worth) and an uncompromising type to say the least.

On the street Roy's super quick triple left hook would count for nothing - Benn by vicious head stomp IMO..

I cant believe I am getting sucked into a 'who would have been harder in a street fight debate'

but I genuinely believe that Benn would have held all the aces if Lil Roy and he had clashed on the cobbles.

Benn was in it for the knuckle, Roy was an outstanding athlete who lacked 'the devil' that our Nige possessed.

ciscokid · Post by **ciscokid** » 26 Jan 2007, 16:07

Just spoke to him - he said it was Steve Collins - not Benn!!

Anyone know about this???

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 16:14

ciscokid wrote:Just spoke to him - he said it was Steve Collins - not Benn!!

Anyone know about this???

Steve Collins 'door stepped' Roy Jones during the post fight interview at one of his fights (cant remember which) and asked for a fight to be made but this is fairly common practise when trying to build interest in a fight.

Maybe this is what your pal means??..

TheRiverCityHippy · Post by **TheRiverCityHippy** » 26 Jan 2007, 16:15

wasnt benn into martial arts as well as boxing?
didnt muggers try roll benn when he was an up and coming fighter and out on an early morning run, i think it was in the papers that he roundhoused the pair of them.
i once heard steve collins tried to engineer a fight with jones by going to his house.
but i think it was in an effort to get roy legitamately into the squared circle as opposed to a `straightener` type of scenario.

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 26 Jan 2007, 16:23

headhunter wrote:wasnt benn into martial arts as well as boxing?
didnt muggers try roll benn when he was an up and coming fighter and out on an early morning run, i think it was in the papers that he roundhoused the pair of them.
i once heard steve collins tried to engineer a fight with jones by going to his house.
but i think it was in an effort to get roy legitamately into the squared circle as opposed to a `straightener` type of scenario.

Benn started out doing kickboxing before switching to boxing whilst in the army as I understand it.

Roy was an athlete who, in truth, preferred basketball to fighting.

Benn was a warrior who loved to have it bang off - it would have been a one sided beating outside of the ring.

Phenomenal-Nutrition · Post by **Phenomenal-Nutrition** » 26 Jan 2007, 16:59

Door Stepped RJJ? More like banged on his mansion gates and got chased awat by the pitbulls.

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