pretty sure rjj is the greatest athlete boxing ever had. Overall to my eyes he is, and I've been carefully watching all the best in all generations for quite a while. RJJ shows different weapons in different fights, sometimes using a quick up jab, but more commonly using the same weapons floyd mayweather would adopt. long quick lead rights and leaping left hooks. fast and covering so much range that fighting long and big guys was fine. But as good as floyd was, rjj was even better. A tad quicker prime for prime i think, a tad, and more power, could throw powerful unique punches from any angle. Crazy endurance too, crazy fast reflexes. could fight just as good moving forwards or backwards, had an amazing check hook while moving backwards. he was so... so dominant in his run. and the truth is floyd lost one fight -- the judges gave it to him, and he dominated the rematch, but floyd absolutely lost that fight, and all the commentators and harold letterman had is for that guy over floyd. it was a certain robbery. floyd was never quite as dominant as roy. roy was untouchable for a long time. all fights completely one sided, utterly and absolutely one sided more or less -- until he got to his 51st fight and finally lost. floyd went 50 and 0 -- so did rjj - although technically there was a DQ and he smashed him in the rematch. so rjj's record is also nuts, and after that first loss he was probably never quite the same -- but he's still fighting today prime for prime -- no one was as dominant as rjj for as long as rjj -- i can think of absolutely no one. just so very very dominant. and lastly, a natural star, pizzazz, showmanship, charisma, likability, even when showboating and being obnoxious, he was still somehow likable. ultimately what was it? speed. the greatest speed i've ever seen in professional boxing with my eyes overall. combat is attributes at the end of the day. only so many ways to punch, so ultimate who's faster, and the fastest is most likely to do the best. and so it is. rjj loved to drop his hands, and almost never paid for it, and was fast enough to get them back up in a shell when the range suddenly changed.

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​@@thecontainerthecontents6889mayweather was dope but he fought from like 30-47 , most the guys you're fighting at 30-35 couldnt ride a roller coaster at the local fair lol bunch of midgets

Still not as good as Calzaghe. He beat everyone.

YES HE WAS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Crazy thing is he hadn't peaked yet he was still at the beginning stage of his career

You're goddamn right💯

The guy hes fighting, Malinga, lost debatable close decisions to Chris Eubank & Nigel Benn, then he beat Benn in a rematch. Roy Jones was so far ahead of the competition he was damn near outa sight, the man was SUPERSONIC. Next Level only begins to describe him, you would need to have witnessed him in his era to grasp what Im saying, he was unreal.

ha ha : )

FACTS. He was nothing nice with them hands, just ask Richard Hall.

#truth

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Such a true statement!

In my opinion, i don't think that Larry didn't appreciate them, i think he was just tired of watching people act foolish in the ring. He was a big fan of Oscar and Leonard because they hardly ever clowned around and danced in the ring, they definitely had a level of class among them. Mike Tyson was a boxer Larry liked until he began fooling around with Don King, then Larry's opinion about Tyson as a person changed.

Small Incisions Small Incisions who do you think most of these guys grew up watching if it wasn’t Sugar? Sugar Ray shuffle? The Bolo punch? Merchant likes boxer who slug and exchange . He thinks that’s boxing. Listen to him at 45:30 in this video. According to him if fighters are being tactical then it’s not a real fight

You better watch your mouth or Larry will knock you out!

Phil N LeBlanc if he was 50 years younger😉

what was that all about ?

@@steelermia I guess he thought he was going to slap him, some coaches do it to wake his guy up

Punch drunk

Former boxers usually make for sh_t analysts. Being an analyst is different from being a boxer.

@@taekwondotime idk i feel like we've had many good boxers-turned-analysts.

​@@juk1107 Sugar Ray Leonard was good. Roy Jones Jr. was good. Foreman was kind of a mixed bag and took everything personally. For all the people that hate Merchant, he was right pretty much all the time.

@@taekwondotimeLarry is always nagging. How was he right? He wants Roy, a tall fighter, to just go in and slug it? Bruh 😂 that’s the most restarted thing to ask…

captain insanity. I agree.

Leonard

@@sherrillraymond7595 leonard was something else as well and hagler

Floyd wasn't the most exciting to people but he was the most complete fighter of them all

@@Hubtones1 hahaha

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Maybe Pernell pound for pound?

Manny Pacqiao had exxellent footwork

@@michaels8386 Manny has good feet too, just not Roy Jones level, but if you see something in Mannys footwork that you can take n use for yerself or teach to a kid then go ahead, Manny has good feet but not great, his feet got him KOd, face planted vs Marquez, same as Amir Khans feet got him TKOd vs Danny Garcia. I dont even think Roy realised or realises how good his feet were. I describe Roys feet as basketball player feet. No basketball player hs feet like Roy Jones but because Roy played basketball during his boxing career I think it added an extra dimension to his footwork, which knowing Roy, is probably WHY he played basket ball during his boxing career. He was n maybe still 24/7 a boxer. & 24/7 boxing. Roy was no accident, he was dedication hard work, intelligence & commitment.

I guess you never saw Willie Pep’s foot work “Put Some Pep In Your Step” is where that phrase comes from.

@@Lonelysportofboxing Pep had good feet, defensively very good, just not as good as Roy Jones. Read what I wrote, nobody used their feet as effectively as Roy. It doesn't mean X, Y or Z had bad feet, nor does it mean thay yer great great granny lied to you about Willie Pep as you were slurping on her withered diddy.

@@SPIDERM0OSE 🤣🤣Lmao nice granny joke bro

Meh, alot of COACHES have never boxed before, that's crazy

Maybe because many boxers slur their words because od brain damage.

@@indiglo1971 George Foreman, Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Emmanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis, and Roy Jones Jr. just to name a few were all boxers and they were literally the greatest commentators of all time (ok maybe not Hagler). Harold Lederman is the only non-boxer(I think?) to have ever done an incredible job as a commentator

Malinga was game, but man, a prime Roy was just in another galaxy. He was just unbeatable in this era. Never seen a fighter before or since switch stances and look so natural in both. Roy was a cheat code.

Thank God the camera angle was able to catch the true speed of his right hand. Unbelievable

The amount of times I replayed that, absolute magician in the ring

But Jones WAS boring until he caught fire.With all his talent he would/should of been far more devastating. It is an entertainment sport you know.

@@bigdaddy4069 it’s an hit and not get it sport, I love watching entertaining brawls but I prefer 12 rounds of pure boxing

+Blake472 Now THAT is a solid RJJ performance! I believe the Harris beat down was my first foray into RJJ territory. Been a fan ever since.

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Facts!

Didn't see Sugar Ray Robinson but Roy Jones was a freak of nature. Maybe his legacy got tarnished post his heavyweight experience but no doubt he was the best of the best middleweight / light heavyweight in the 90s early 00s. Calzaghe included. Scary speed and power , you see other boxers don't want to engage because they knew what was coming.

@@philgarrett5498 I was actually at his fight against Calzaghe. That was past Jones' prime, of course. Turned out to be Calzaghe's last fight. . Yes, after he came back down in weight after the Ruiz fight he was never the same. The reason I believe is because it was all muscle he had to lose and at his age it weakened his body taking off so much muscle so quickly - about 20 pounds of muscle. He was never the same after that

@@jaysharp789 totally agree

Robinson fought taxi drivers

Or a cross dresser.💋

Right

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Parry Mason false. He hated charismatic athletic black boxers

John Wick Exactly

Well if he didn’t like the theatrics of boxing, he sure contradicted himself with love and admiration for Ray Leonard, much part of Leonard’s fights theatrics and show-boating was an essential part of his routine.

If boxer has roy's ability, that means they don't need much inside defense or a concrete chin. Because they almost won't be tested in the match. Speed is everything!

@@shenjia who’s the fastest boxer

@@paulcris107 sugar ray leonard. but roy has the best reflex and most devastated and unexpected left hook.

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Nicholas Y right. Arum has been robbing fighters for decades. Listen how fighters talk about Haymon. They love him. Floyd calls him dad. Nobody speaks highly of Arum.

No, Benn was shot by the 2nd fight. Malinga's team said as much before the fight.

@abraxis20 yea benn was on the side but malinga had improved still regardless what shape benn was in

but... we all know that, and prime for prime, and lb for lb, Jones probably beats everyone EVER. He was never even challenged during his long run at the top. And it's proof of his sheer love of fighting that he fought way, way, way too long. He was bored without it.

His name is Forever etched in the book of Boxing History. Just like Ali, Ray Robinson, Tommy Hearns etc, etc. All these men had losses and they are All in the Boxing H.O.F

Yeah, he had such unorthodox lead punches he was unlike anyone else. The punch was perfectly timed and landed. Not much else to say about it. The guy was such a joy to watch fight back then.

Don Williams was big in South Africa during 1980s

Agreed. This was the 2nd fight I heard him say "I saw sugar ray Leanord and he's no sugar ray". Bernard Hopkins was the other. He probably said it every fight until he realized Roy was an all time great

I think De La Hoya was Larry Merchant’s toy boy.

Not at all!

Hell NO!!!

Makes you wonder how in the world he was able to keep that job at HBO for 35 years.

Agree to the T

Oscar Hernandez , brotha you are dead ass correct, Merchant, as someone else stated is a true hater if you ain’t a favorite of his... well said bra, fans love excitement and entertainment and truth be told if you can entertain and box, what in holy fuck is wrong wit dat!!!

Correct..but he just won't die or retire, what a greedy bastard ....lol

The Golden Boy ODLH exempt, I think the Golden Boy was Bob Arum’s manicurist.

brk He was made to be a hater it’s second nature to him all I ever heard coming from this mans mouth was pure garbage and long stupid rants about nothing.

He's a pessimist.

Hi brk, I can hear that sweet 'ping' as you part his hair with an aluminium baseball bat. rofl

Yes, real hater...

typical jew

He’s fu fu lame ! Telling Roy to not stick his tongue 😜

did u see his hand gesture during his introduction?

South African ..hes a Zulu.

Lasith Malinga is a South African name, he originates from South Africa 😁

+Mario Zelda Metroid Malinga would go on to beat Nigel Benn and scrape the planned RJJ-Benn SuperFight.

I would have to agree but ray was a legend as well