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Crew2 wrote:

Dirk Kelly wrote:

Crew2 wrote:HE CALLEDOUT EUBANK JUST ABOUT EVERY WEEK FROM JUN 92 (WHEN HE LEFT HIS DAD) TO MAR 95, AND SPECIF WANTED THE FIGHT IN LONDON. HE CALLED OUT BENN ABOUT EVERY WEEK FROM MAR 95 TO MAR 96, AND WAS WILLING TO COME HERE

How so? Any evidence to back this up?

PRESS CONFERENCES, MAG ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND SO ON

THERE WAS TALK OF JONES FIGHTING BENN IN 1989 WHEN NBC-TV WERE GOING TO SIGN THEM BOTH AND BUILD THEM TOWARDS A SUPERFIGHT TO TAKE OVER FROM HAGLER AND LEONARD. TRUE.

That is total rot!... Jones never had any intention to fight Eubank or Benn... as for him fighting in England you've got to be joking right??.... for one thing he wouldnt have been able to get his special fix here!.... Jones was and is a fake imo.... the guy is a disgrace...

Come on Silkov mate you're sounding like a bit of a troll now. I'm no RJJ lover but its pretty obvious to anyone following boxing in 95 that Jones was after Benn and Eubank.

Eubank got himself beat whereas Benn looked unlikely because of the DK connection, but got himself beat by Malinga anyway.

overhand_right wrote:Come on Silkov mate you're sounding like a bit of a troll now. I'm no RJJ lover but its pretty obvious to anyone following boxing in 95 that Jones was after Benn and Eubank.

Eubank got himself beat whereas Benn looked unlikely because of the DK connection, but got himself beat by Malinga anyway.

I was around at the time and cant remember Jones chasing the fight!.... do you really think Benn wouldnt have fought Jones if he'd had the chance??.... the guy was afraid of noone. Eubank would have faced him too had he been serious. Jones was never interested in fighting either of them....

chesh wrote:

KO Artist wrote:

overhand_right wrote:I must be senile too because i dont get what you're on about? Is itr because he said england instead of wales? Big fcukin wowza. I'd like to have his bank account.

You wouldnt. He owes the IRS millions

How did that happen? He's always had a lawyer/advisor, as far as I know. He's earned a fortune. Don't these guys pay their tax each year like other self-employed people? If you earn 10 mill. in a year, you put about 4 mill. away for the taxman and have 6 left to play with. It can't be that difficult to manage. I know he owned about 800 fighting cocks at one time, but I wouldn't have thought the chicken feed cost that much.

Without giving too much away, I know he is in trouble. As is another American MEGASTAR (much bigger than RJJ), whose palatial home has been passed around several large uk property companies and investment banks in a desperate attemp by his creditors to recoup unpaid money.

Silkov, Eubank was never interested in fighting anyone. His list of title defences speaks volumes. Benn on the other hand was very willing, but the process was much slower because he was associated with Don KIng and Showtime, and RJJ with HBO and anti-DK. But if Benn could of maintained a winning run thru 96 it would of come together surely, but he couldn't even beat Malinga who RJJ had iced years ago.

benn was finished at that time, so ultimately it would have meant nothing.

Jones wa shappy, more than happy to pocket $5mil per title defense vs Bryant Brannon, Richard Frazier, ANYONE. He missed a lot of big fights now he can't go away...

silkov wrote:

overhand_right wrote:Come on Silkov mate you're sounding like a bit of a troll now. I'm no RJJ lover but its pretty obvious to anyone following boxing in 95 that Jones was after Benn and Eubank.

Eubank got himself beat whereas Benn looked unlikely because of the DK connection, but got himself beat by Malinga anyway.

I was around at the time and cant remember Jones chasing the fight!.... do you really think Benn wouldnt have fought Jones if he'd had the chance??.... the guy was afraid of noone. Eubank would have faced him too had he been serious. Jones was never interested in fighting either of them....

Jones called them both out soon after Eubank vs Collins 1 in an article in Boxing Monthly - called Eubank, nostrills.

Benn has openly admitted in a BM interview (think it was around 1999/2000) that the ONLY thing that interested him fighting Jones was the money. He has admited (and fair play to him) that after McClellan he had no chance of beating him - but he would have fought anyone for the money he was demanding. He said that part of the reason why he was asking so much was cause he knew the fight wasn't going to happen at that price - if the execs would have surprised him and said yes, then fair enough he would have fought him.

Its a little bit similar to the Steve Collins vs RJJ situation, just Collins has never publically said that he stood no chance.

I think Collins really believed he could win.

It's pretty meaningless, but there's a slight parallel between Tyson-Holmes and Jones-McCallum. Now admittedly, McCallum was in better shape than Holmes during his later years, but Jones couldn't put him away. Marciano-Louis is another example. When an old master can survive against a bright young challenger, legend isn't a word I reach for.

But was McCallum coming out of a 2 year retirement to fight RJJ? No, he had been active. AN older but active Holmes did a good job going 12 and making Holyfield look bad, Holyfield being superior to Tyson in every department except 1 punch power.

I was alluding to McCallum's activity when I said he was in better shape than Holmes at the same age. Larry maintains he didn't train for Tyson of course.

But wasn't Jones regarded as a puncher? Despite clearly dominating a shopworn Mike, he was unable to finish the job. So he never announced his superiority in the fashion Rocky M and others did. I'd compare Jones to Hamed myself.

overhand_right wrote:Silkov, Eubank was never interested in fighting anyone. His list of title defences speaks volumes. Benn on the other hand was very willing, but the process was much slower because he was associated with Don KIng and Showtime, and RJJ with HBO and anti-DK. But if Benn could of maintained a winning run thru 96 it would of come together surely, but he couldn't even beat Malinga who RJJ had iced years ago.

Eubank had a very buisness-like approach to boxing. In his autobiography, pertaining to Roy Jones, he stated that he would have accomadated a challenge from RJJ - if he had been the No1 challenger to his belt; but openly conceeded that it was a fight that he stood little chance of winning.

Jones was a bit more enigmatic than that though, wasnt he. Theres a whole string of guys who went long with RJJ, seemingly at RJJs pleasure. He very rarely stepped it up or over exerted himself, McCallum was among those guys who got their heads jabbed off, knocked down, but Jones never went for it. Im a big McCallum fan and not a RJJ fan, but i dont mind admitting that it looked like Jones could take him out anytime he wanted.

Jones at 168 looked as close to unbeatable as we've ever seen in a boxing ring, against Harris, Malinga, Toney, Byrd, Pazienza, Thornton and Brannon he was almost hideous, barely took one flush power shot in all those fights together and his hand-work seemed super-enhanced, even throwing flurries of power shots. But at 175, he had a closish call with McCallum, got a little schooled by Griffin, KTFD by Del Valle, a close call with Harding, a close call with Tarver, and then KTFO by Tarver.

He just wasn't the same fighter at 175 and personally I rated Mosley and Mayweather over him in mythical lb4lb, and Hamed after the Badillo and Bungu fights, and Oscar and Trinidad I suppose too. He was probably not a mythical lb4lb top five fighter at 175, IMO.

KO Artist wrote:

chesh wrote:

KO Artist wrote: You wouldnt. He owes the IRS millions

How did that happen? He's always had a lawyer/advisor, as far as I know. He's earned a fortune. Don't these guys pay their tax each year like other self-employed people? If you earn 10 mill. in a year, you put about 4 mill. away for the taxman and have 6 left to play with. It can't be that difficult to manage. I know he owned about 800 fighting cocks at one time, but I wouldn't have thought the chicken feed cost that much.

Without giving too much away, I know he is in trouble. As is another American MEGASTAR (much bigger than RJJ), whose palatial home has been passed around several large uk property companies and investment banks in a desperate attemp by his creditors to recoup unpaid money.


Yes

Evander is in a mess

Seems all those women and kids have cost him dear

STP wrote:Jones at 168 looked as close to unbeatable as we've ever seen in a boxing ring, against Harris, Malinga, Toney, Byrd, Pazienza, Thornton and Brannon he was almost hideous, barely took one flush power shot in all those fights together and his hand-work seemed super-enhanced, even throwing flurries of power shots. But at 175, he had a closish call with McCallum, got a little schooled by Griffin, KTFD by Del Valle, a close call with Harding, a close call with Tarver, and then KTFO by Tarver.

He just wasn't the same fighter at 175 and personally I rated Mosley and Mayweather over him in mythical lb4lb, and Hamed after the Badillo and Bungu fights, and Oscar and Trinidad I suppose too. He was probably not a mythical lb4lb top five fighter at 175, IMO.

STP, in all due respect, your post is full of enormous holes to suit your argument. Yes you are right jones was the nearest thing to unbeatable at super middle, and had fun while he was at it. But if you look at his record at l.heavy it's a record anyone would be proud of.

he was two time l.heavy weight champion, undisputed l.heavy champion, he had 15 fights at the weight before moving up to heavy. losing one on a DQ, that was admittedly his hardest fight to date, but was certainly on his way to winning in that round or the next. How you could say he was schooled just because it was a difficult fight is beyond me. The mccallum fight was far from close. He broke Hills ribs in 4 one sided rounds, hit the deck for the 1st time in his career versus Del valle and still won by 10 rounds on one judge and 9 rounds on the other 2 judges score cards.
He made twelve defences of his undisputed crown at the weight.

Lets face it jones was never the same fighter once he dropped back down from heavy, you could clearly see that in his body and stamina, he just wasn't the same.

Hopkins
malinga
tate
toney
byrd
pazienza
thornton
sosa
lucas
mccallum
griffin
del valle
grant
r. johnson
telesco
harding
gonzales
woods
ruiz
tarver

These are all good fighters mixed with the odd great one. These names would look impressive on anyones record.

The Blade wrote:

KO Artist wrote:

chesh wrote: How did that happen? He's always had a lawyer/advisor, as far as I know. He's earned a fortune. Don't these guys pay their tax each year like other self-employed people? If you earn 10 mill. in a year, you put about 4 mill. away for the taxman and have 6 left to play with. It can't be that difficult to manage. I know he owned about 800 fighting cocks at one time, but I wouldn't have thought the chicken feed cost that much.

Without giving too much away, I know he is in trouble. As is another American MEGASTAR (much bigger than RJJ), whose palatial home has been passed around several large uk property companies and investment banks in a desperate attemp by his creditors to recoup unpaid money.


Yes

Evander is in a mess

Seems all those women and kids have cost him dear

The guy I am referring to is not a boxer. Though he is better known that Evander.

Probably second only to Elvis.

KO Artist wrote:

The Blade wrote:

KO Artist wrote: Without giving too much away, I know he is in trouble. As is another American MEGASTAR (much bigger than RJJ), whose palatial home has been passed around several large uk property companies and investment banks in a desperate attemp by his creditors to recoup unpaid money.


Yes

Evander is in a mess

Seems all those women and kids have cost him dear

The guy I am referring to is not a boxer. Though he is better known that Evander.

Probably second only to Elvis.

Arrr.......the one time black man I assume

The Blade wrote:

KO Artist wrote:

The Blade wrote: The guy I am referring to is not a boxer. Though he is better known that Evander.

Probably second only to Elvis.

Arrr.......the one time black man I assume

Nah. It's definately not Oprah Winfrey. 8)

The Blade wrote:

KO Artist wrote:

The Blade wrote: The guy I am referring to is not a boxer. Though he is better known that Evander.

Probably second only to Elvis.

Arrr.......the one time black man I assume

Bang on the money

I've been sent a valuation, copy deeds, cash flow for mortages etc, in repspect of his big place.

The guy is skint.

Terry D wrote:
I think Mariah Carey faced the same problems when her sales slumped but her amazing tats have turned it around for her.

Her tats point in opposite directions though

Don't want to sound rude, but didn't everyone know that Jacko was broke.

I do find it a tad hard that Mariah Carey is/was in trouble fincially - wasn't she married to the head man at Sony or something like that and had a divorce! I wouldn't mind finding out about the shape of her breasts mind and report to you guys if they are facing in the opposite directions. Wasn't it only like a 2 year period when her career took a dip.... Nothing like a quick suicide attempt to reboost your flagging career.

Anyway, on to the boxing - I'm starting to get more hyped for this fight. Jones aint been impressing, but he has ticked along OKAY since the third Tarver fight against not too bad names. If one of these wins CONCLUSIVELY then I think they are back in the mix in a devision devoid of names. I would expect to see a well hyped title fight next for the winner that could draw big numbers. I think it is such indirectly for Calzaghe - what I mean, is say Tito smashes Jones in 2 rounds (or vice versa) the winner will get hyped. The winner fights and loses convincingly to say Dawson - Dawson is now a money player in the devision.

Jones was the money man. All fighters fight for the money. If Jones really wanted those fights to happen they'd have happened because nobody could have turned the money down.

I'm not as harsh as Silkov on the Jones issue but I have some sympathy with his position.

Jones wanted to convince everyone of his greatness by show boating agianst fighters who were no threat. Can you imagine him operating in the division when the likes of Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, Harold Johnson and Lloyd Marshall were fighting?

yes!

You must be mad. I grant you that these fighters were great fighters in their days, but i've seen these guys perform against great and mediocre opponents of their times and ive seen jones perform against great and mediocre opposition of his time, and i can tell you IMO, jones would do them all, his speed and power would allow him to land shots almost at will on them. Go back and look at videos of these guys, youtube even. AQs good as these guys were in their day, jones is better all round. Honestly, people would have you believe that the fighters from the earlier era were beyond getting beat by fighters of today.

KO Artist wrote:

The Blade wrote:

KO Artist wrote:
Arrr.......the one time black man I assume

Bang on the money

I've been sent a valuation, copy deeds, cash flow for mortages etc, in repspect of his big place.

The guy is skint.

So I assume it will be KO Artist of Neverland soon?