He fought a guy whose reflexes were gone. Roy should have hung up his gloves like Sugar Ray Leonard when his reflexes went at the tender young age of 36. Roy will always be remembered as one of the greatest of all time. As for Joe he's a bum.

@@parkerbohnn I totally agree with you that Roy is a legend but to call Joe a bum….. you are clearly clueless in the subject that you think you know 😂

It was mate

defo

From a crap, not-even-amateur boxer, i can tell you, those people with flat noses have distinctly HUGE advantages... It stings getting hit in a big ol' pointy Heeb nose. Don Flaminco noses experience some real pain. I personally think it could hold real talent back. It just gets too bloody and nasty. Even sparring sucks cuz the fullest helms still leave your nose uncovered and my nose remained sensitive. Idk if more exp fighters get over that or not...

Right the glove never hit Joe it was Roy's forearm. Totally illegal but it's Roy Jones so the ref let it go,

Deffo not a knockdown...

doubt it, even joe said himself he wouldnt have beaten a prime roy jones

@@bawbag3715 Calzaghe was 36 to Jones 39 so pretty even as far as age goes. Excuses that Jones was past his prime don't hold up when ages are so close.

you do know that age isnt the only factor in a fighters prime? and a 39 year old is 3 years further down the line than a 36 year old so yes that age difference can be huge as far as sports people go. and like i said the biggest expert in the world that said roy jones would win in their prime was joe calzaghe, i think that guy knows more about this than any of us?@@ttblade

Have you even followed jones career? After 2003 it was one of the greatest decline you could ever see in a fighter. Jones lost his foot speed and he lost his reflexes. The Jones in this fight has nothing to do with prime Jones. that is no excuse, that is a fact. While Calzaghe on the other hand was still pretty close to his prime. Indeed Calzaghe did achieve was Jones didnt: he was never a washed up fighter, cause he stopped at the right time. You can not just compare ages and say its only 3 years between them. They were in totally different stages of their career. @@ttblade

​@@Bhavyodry your eyes 😂

That is because the media think all great champions are black

Joe was a bum and will always be remembered as a bum.

@@parkerbohnn lmao sounds like you're a pure hater n not recognise a great fighter due to your blind bias, discriminate bs lmao. 31 others clicked thumbs up agreed with my point as a boxing fan

💯 well said 🤝🏻

Not even close to it tbh. Great fighter for sure, but he spent 10 years defending 1 belt from the comfort of home rather than trying to unify. All his best wins apart from Kessler against against well past their prime old men. Would probably scrape inside the top 5, but nowhere near the best

@@sabretooth5404haters always gonna hate 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

@@randomas5565 not hate, just facts

There's only three year between them.....

Yes but was born in england..

There is a difference.

This is such a small minded distinction. Most people see English and British as interchangeable terms.

​@@paulbriody297 What's a small minded distinction? That the United Kingdom is made up of different countries and therefore different nationalities? You can't call a Scotsman English, he'll club you with a shillelagh.

@@paulbriody297 It's not a small minded distinction. It's important.

It was calazaghe who is the puzzle

This was in 2008, after Roy Jones was a shadow of his former self...

⁠@@m.nothing5865Calzaghe was only 3 years younger, he was 36 himself

'Cant be touched cant be stopped cant be moved cant be rocked cant be shook' - Roy Jones

@@m.nothing5865 Neither fighter was in their prime

RJJ was awesome but it's like Calzaghe understood everything about him and delivered the beating he knew he could.

There's only three years between them

His dad gave up his music career to train his son!! He was a great coach better dad

​@@tomm5293Italian dude.

​@@Autonomia_para_Puerto_Ricoyes, Italian heritage via UK

Nice to watch enjoying there job

21 unbeaten defences make fighters like fury look like total frauds, sanctioning bodies need to do more to make fighters have defences

💯 agree 👍

If he fought prime Roy, he would’ve lost? 😂

​@@user-ex4nh7qi8uwe'll never know that one

i finally saw his fights compilation today; pretty amazing; definitely a legend

@@user-ex4nh7qi8u there is only 3 years between them 😂

Oh do wake up. It was a 3 year difference. Prime this, prime that...blah, blah,....Joe would beat him at any stage. Too quick, too fast and better all round.@@user-ex4nh7qi8u

What did he say on the matter?

@@seanmarshall7403 its got (england) in the title. He fights out of Wales.

There’s no difference

@@davidradovsky5354 where are you from?

@@generalapathy6446 yankee

Making excuses for Roy throughout the fight. remember Jones wanted this fight.

Typical American, nobody could possibly beat a great American boxer, just couldn't happen...but it did.

It was embarassing...@@dutchvan4503

If you have a gash over your eye……you’re hurt

Caused by JOnes elbow....remember that...@@surfahdoc

Roy's mouth got him lots and lots of punishment in this one.

I always hated HBO announcing. Showtime was so much better cuz of no favoring. But I'll say this. Steward LOVED Joe, and Joe was a white fighter from across the ocean. All racism aside. That meant something.

Forearm

Forearm

@@shaz2761" Foreskin"

@@mikepalm6452 😮 bet he's glad he was never circumsized then

JOE Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Italian father, Enzo, his mother is Welsh. So, really he is English.

@@NeilHawkins-zq7bm no, not wrong, absolutely correct. Joe Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Italian father, Enzo, his mother is Welsh. So, really he is English. Look it up on Wikipedia.

@@NeilHawkins-zq7bm His birth was registered in England, went to Italy when he was one year old and then because his mother was homesick, they returned to the UK and settled on Wales where hi mother came from but he is still English because he was born there and registered there.

​​@@honestchris7472Boris Johnson was born in the States - he is not American. John McEnroe was born in Germany but he is not German. Cliff Richard was born in India but he is not Indian !! Calzaghe is Welsh

He was born in London

gloves are Italian colors

Roy Jones met a Real word Class fighter ..Jones looks like he has been in a train smash.. As did Lacy Kessler, Brewer ,Hopkins etc etc etc ..Calzhagi retired after this , his last masterpiece Undefeated ..

@@robertpegg7251 RJJ went 49 - 0 without the DQ compared to Joe's 46 - 0

Half

His dad is full on Italian, a musician by trade and a boxing trainer by passion.

@user-xn6ot6jt2x Thanks buddy.

Best boxer of ALL time ?? take it easy ..!?!

@user-xn6ot6jt2x He fought boxers that were no longer in their prime and only fought mainly in the UK...having said that I thought he should have gone to the U.S earlier in his career..

england owns wales maybe that

@@bobmiller7502 Since when does England own Wales?

@@william_marshal princapality,,we own you

@@bobmiller7502 Educate yourself before you spout such rubbish !!!

Nothing to see here . Just another angry little Welsh bloke 😂😂

Gypsy King?

best "welsh" boxer,joe wasn't english,uk is england scotland and wales.....joe was from wales.the most underrated boxer from these shores.

​@evilelf5967 Forgive that commentor their american....most don't know any country's location besides their own 😂.

He's from Wales not the UK.

@@catdaddy2643 Fury isn't even the best heavyweight to come out of the UK mate. Though our best heavyweight is alongside Joe as being IMO our 2 best fighters of all time.

By this fight the bones in Joe's hands were shattered to dust, if this fight have had happened 2 years earlier Roy would have finished looking like Lacy did. Against Roy and Hopkins Joe's punch per punch striking power was compromised, it was starting to go when he fought Lacy. It's an inherent issue with fighters that throw a lot of punches, the same thing happened to Lloyd Honeyghan who went from being the top welterweight who took down Don Curry when Curry was regarded as the no1 PFP fighter in the World with an utter destruction job to barely being able to win a fight against a journeyman fighter almost overnight.

Prime Roy at 168 would have dealt with joe, Roy was a shadow of the fighter he was hence why he was stopped a few times before this fight

@@robertcolcombe6893 Fair enough but Na can't agree myself.

@@robertcolcombe6893 That's what they thought about Don Curry before he fought Lloyd Honeyghan, all the talk was about Don being possibly the greatest PFP fighter of all time until Lloyd destroyed him. Roy is a great but he was knocked out in his prime not just at the end. By this fight Joe had stopped sparring for several years due to his hand issues and was far more compromised than Roy, compared to five years earlier he was tapping instead of punching. Every fighter Calzaghe ever fought received 2-3 times as many punches compared to any other fighter they fought and he could go 12 at that pace without breaking a sweat. He was impossible to outpoint, to beat him you had to knock him out but nobody did so your opinion is purely subjective and is no way objective.

Hahahaha...comedian?@@robertcolcombe6893

Why? He smoked him…

Calzaghe not even top 50

@@sabretooth5404 ridiculous thing to say. Boxing is an art form and a sport. It’s not a fight. There’s plenty of people who are better fighters but only probably Floyd Mayweather can compete with him at boxing as a skill.

@@phil8528 🤣🤣🤣 ridiculous thing to say. you clearly haven't watched much boxing if you think Floyd is the only one that can compete with him skillwise. Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pep, Harry Greb, Pernell Whittaker, RJJ, Ray Leonard, Nicolino Locce, Wilfred Benitez, lomachenko, Roman Gonzalez, Rigondeaux, Ricardo Lopez, Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, Benny Leonard, James Toney, Ali Shall I continue? Maybe learn abit about the sport instead of making a fool of yourself

@@sabretooth5404 not a single one of them which I know a lot about which is probably 80% of that list are able to score points the way Joe does. I admit to not being as knowledgable on 20%. I’m going to guess that you also aren’t familiar with all of the work of every single boxer you’ve listed if you’re completely honest with yourself. You’re blinded by nostalgia, history and popularity, and because no one wants to admit that calzaghe is the master craftsmen of tagging opponents with perfection because he didn’t do it all over the world.

@@phil8528 I've been involved in the sport for over 30 years, so yes I'm familiar with every single name I've mentioned. That's why I've mentioned them. And yet you claim not a single one of them, then admit you don't know who some of them are. How does that make sense? You sound like you are blinded by absolute delusion. Not only did Calzaghe not do it all over the world, but he didn't do it against a single elite fighter in their prime. It's easy to look like a master when youre fighting nobody's

Up until Joe had destroyed his hands a lot of the top fighters put him at the top of the "I ain't dealing with that club". Even Lacy who's still probably got a ringing sound in his head after getting pounded on for 12 came after Joe's hands were already a major problem. By this stage Joe had stopped sparring in preparation of fights to preserve his hands for the fights themselves, Joe just concentrated on fitness training and was the fittest boxer in the World at the time.

Another butt hurt Yank?...Get over it. The better man won in style. Wasn't even close.

You could say the same for Joe... Who is only three years younger.... In their prime it very well could have been the same... Who knows ... But they both were past their prime

Both past their prime here

I wouldn't call beating a shell of the fighter RJJ was a truly great performance. A truly great performance would have been doing that 10 years earlier

​@@sabretooth5404Agreed. But it was also Calzaghes last ever fight, and that's significant.

@@SpotlessLeopard not really. Just one over the hill fighter beating an even more over the hill fighter. Not significant, nor a truly great performance

He was past his best but still elite. But that's ok. ALL boxers fight older past their prime fighters. Roy did this too.

3 years is a long time in boxing terms

Excuses.... That's what the haters do ...

Father time didn't get Roy beat here ... There's only a 3year difference here.... Not a big difference.... Joe just out classed his ass

I think he was born in London but his mum is Welsh so they moved there so I'd say being Welsh is fair enough. After all Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents that moved to London and nobody questions him being English. We have these local quirks all over our plague and sheep infested island. I myself am English but my father with Scottish, I'm sure if I'd been raised in Scotland I'd identify as a Sweaty and not a Sassenach.

Jones way past his best ..

If a sheep’s born in a pig sty it doesn’t make it a pig

Not just a point scorer with almost 3 quarters of his wins coming from KO

@@Ekkaisara deffinatley not just a point scorer.

He was more than a point a scorer hell his first 30 opponents didn’t make it past the eighth round stopped everyone of them

@@jeffreyvaughn6332 completely agree. I said he was a great point scorer. I didn't say he was just a point scorer. The thing with Joe was he always scored the points, did t just rely on a big knock out. He was a very intelligent boxer.

Рой Джонс лучший боксёр. Гальзахэ обычный боксер не чего сверхъестественного он не делал в ринге брал темпом лучшие года рой Джонс его переехал за один раунд.

Joe calslappy stunk

JOE CALZAGUE v ROY JONES JR! 2 fighters one winner Joe is a different class

Cuz Roy was destroying everyone who stepped in front of him… He was never the same after Tarver’s left.

Hypocrites and ass kissers...

Steve Collins could've.

Joe would have been utterly steamrolled by Canelo, as would Pacquiao. Mayweather was lightyears ahead of all three.

😂

good thing Calzhage hid across seas when Roy was in his prime ,,,what a loser !!

@@GBAL42022 well I suppose we'll never know who avoided who now will we?