Who do you think was a better boxer, Floyd Mayweather jr. or Roy Jones Jr?

Answer 1

Well at this point I have to say Roy Jones. Mayweather has a lot more to do before you say his career equals to Roy Jones. But Mayweather does have the potential to be better.

Answer 2

Roy Jones Jr

Answer 3

Roy Jones Jr.
Hands Down

Answer 4

As good as Floyd is, and in the blogbaba's opinion that is very good, I had never seen reflexes and quickness like what Roy Jones brought to the ring.

Had Roy met up with and beat Gerald McClellan at 160 and Moorer at 175 during their prime he would have been mentioned with Ray Robinson as potentially the very elite of boxing. As it is, when father time (and a Tarver left hook) took that quickness away, Roy faded.

Floyd is currently at his peak, and should he get by Oscar relatively unscathed, I think purely from a boxing standpoint Floyd was the better of the two. A lot of what Roy Jones Jr. was, was pure physical reflex and natural quickness. Things that cannot be taught or acquired. No matter how many hours you spend in the gym, you cannot learn Roy's boxing style, you either are born with it, or not. It's like training to be taller, you can't you are either tall or not. Roy fought, he didn't box much. He relied on phenomenal physical gifts to dominate his opponents, and when he physically slowed with age, Tarver exposed him.

Floyd is a more traditional gym rat, who learned the trade, and worked to sharpen his skills. Nobody could have matched Roy Jones's ability, but it really wasn't "boxing" ability, it was physical ability. As a boxer I give the nod to Mayweather.

Answer 5

It depends on how you look at it. Floyd Is not moving weight classes as much as jones did. If jones would have stayed in between a few weight classes instead of moving all around he would def be the best boxer between the 2 no doubt. All that weight class switching is what did Jones in but he has accomplised a lot. Floyd is a awesom boxer but we will have to wait a few more years to see where he is then truely answer this question.

Answer 6

Mayweather Jr.
he's better at crying like a school girl too

Roy Jones was always the iron man, everyone respects the toughest most athletic b stard around but his show boating was pretty bad sometimes

When you pay for a Floyd fight you know you'll see a demonstration of mad boxing skill, can't say the same for RJJ, he brings the macho factor though which is for champs

Answer 7

Right now I'm going to say Floyd because I believe his record will eventually look better. But if Floyd really retires right after the ODLH fight, I'm going to gave to say Roy Jones has had the better record. Skill-wise, it is hard to tell. Both absolutely dominated for many years against top opposition in multiple weight divisions. But two things make me choose Floyd:

#1 - he seems to be more ambitious that Roy ever seemed to want to be. I was terribly disappointed at how scared Roy was of the HW division, and in the end it is clear to me that returning to the LHW div after beating Ruiz was the death of his career. Sure he may have gotten knocked out by one of the Klitchkos or Lewis, but hell, he got knocked out anyway by two second tier boxers at LHW soon after he moved down anyway. At least if he got KOed by a great HW he could have had an excuse.

#2 - Roy's career ended pretty badly, and I have hopes that Floyd's career won't end that poorly. He SHOULD beat ODLH, and if he retires (which would be a crying shame) his career would look pretty good. If he stays at junior-middle I'd like to see him clean out the division and unify the title. But what I would really like to see is for Floyd to go back to (or stay at) Welterweight and fight Cotto, and Marguerito to unify those belts then Mosley, then have a superfight against Ricky Hatton if he had the balls to move up.

Answer 8

Well I think they are both loud mouth showboaters. If I had to pick one of the two, I would say Roy Jones Jr.

Answer 9

RJJ stayed away from the top fighters in his weight class all through his career. Yeah, he did move up to heavy weight, but who did he defeat? The sorry hispanic guy (forgot his name) from from Mass. RJJ was more of a puncher than a "boxer". The better "boxer" is FMJ. Hands down.

Answer 10

RJJ. The dude was impossible to beat until his reflexes started to slow.