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Could Roy still beat the negative ola who blows hot and cold and gives fight away with his negativity, can Roy beat him still?

No, Roy gets knocked out. Afolabi punches hard and has solid skills, so I don't think he'd have much trouble catching and badly hurting Roy, who would be undersized and have little to rely on other than his fading speed.

While Ola is often less active than he should be his only recent losses are to Huck and he arguably won the second fight, so if he does give away fights as you suggest that's only recently happened against top opposition. Roy on the other hand was dropped and needed a gift to beat a mediocre, non-punching lightheavyweight a few bouts ago and of course he was knocked unconscious three years ago in his last bout against an opponent of comparable quality to Afolabi. Afolabi is also faster and better defensively than Lebedev, so I doubt Roy would even have the spurts of speed-based success that he enjoyed against the latter, especially now that he's three years older.

Flat on his back.

How do you think he matches up?

Horribly.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Flat on his back.

better shot against afolabi than against huck or hernandez.
afolabi would be favored but it wouldn't be the biggest upset ever if jones beat him.
jones probably has a better shot against kelenga's title.
he wants one more title shot, so even if people think he's going to get
destroyed or whatever, he's still probably going to get his shot.

Very bad match up for Jones, he would take a beating in this one.

Roy would have a better chance against a Tavoris Cloud type of fighter

Not well. People are being a bit blinded into thinking Roy still has a shot because he beat Courtney Fry impressively.

Some even saying he could beat Chakhiev...

Roy is done at the high level. If he wants to fight the Courtney Fry's of this world to make money, have fun, and bring some boxing exposure to the Latvias of the world then that's fine. But these delusions he can win a major title over any of the top guys are just not gonna be fulfilled.

Your basically Roy's a top 10 cruiserweight right now. I don't see it/ Don't let a win Courtney Fry fool you that guy looked like he was just in for a check.

unfortunately Roy would probably get KOed. he is just a Shell of his former self even compared to a couple years ago (when he fought calzaghe and Hopkins).

just look what lebebev did to him (and lebedev desperately tried to take it easy on roy who unforntunately ran into a Punch in the end).