Carbo wrote:The punch didn't look heavy at all, and the manner in which Jones reacted is incredibly concerning.
I sincerely hope Floyd Mayweather has watched Jones's career plummet and legacy slowly sinking. While it's true that Jones's fall is mostly to do with the fact he was so incredibly physically gifted he never had to learn the techniques which might have allowed him to fight into old age, where Mayweather has, I think that the more pertinent lesson is that of a fighter who might have become a legend by fighting other great fighters and taking on challenges that would stretch him to his limits. Instead, he wasted these years by fighting along the path of least resistance, and then realised when he lost that his whole career was based on (de facto, in Jones's case) unbeaten record, rather than beating great fighters in great fights. Jones realised that his legacy went from potential all time great -- and top five at 175 -- to probably not even top 20 at 175. He fought on in a desperate attempt to get that back, but it was already gone.
If he wasn't tested it was because physical skills were so great that he never had to experience adversity, and that's why the steep decline on the back of his body slowing down.
Is that not what I said?
Not exactly. You suggested he avoided fighting the best available fighters. I am suggesting that nobody he fought during his prime would have tested him, because he was so much better than everyone else.
