michael spinks vs. roy jones jr. in their primes?

Question

the difference in championship rounds might be a factor (12 or 15)on who would win .i think michael spinks was a great fighter and very underrated and think he would beat jones maybe by ko in a 15 round fight.jones best chance would be by decision in a 12 rd fight. remember spinks also went up to heavyweight and won ,except he beat the best heavyweight of his time(larry holmes),not a joke like ruiz.

Answer 1

i grew up in the jones era, but something tells me spinks may have beaten him. i think some of the guys spinks ko'd would have chopped up the light heavys jones has fought throughout his lt heavyweight career. jones' speed and talent shouldn't be overlooked and i could see him being ahead on pts, but like you said, the 12 or 15 round thing could be a major factor. i say spinks beats him either way, but i think jones would have had a much better chance in a twelve rounder.

Answer 2

Spinks was a boxer-puncher and so therefore would do his usual bit and try and box Jones. Not a good thing. Jones would use his superior speed and reflexes to smack Spinks silly for the first half of the fight. It wouldn't even be close.

Then the second half would come. After 6+ rounds of missing scores of "Spinks Jinx" right hands Michael finally lands one flush. Roy staggers and takes the next couple rounds in defensive retreat. Michael tries to hunt him down with mixed results.

By the late rounds Roy's confidence begins to rebuild and he tries to deliver a combo. Spinks nails him and hurts him again. This time Roy's defense serves him naught. Spinks backs him into the ropes and caroms another right off Roy's chin. Roy goes down for the 10-count, though way ahead on the scorecards.

Roy could beat the great light heavyweight boxers of history, the Tommy Loughrans, Maxie Rosenblooms, Philadelphia Jack O'Briens, etc. It's against the punchers that his china-chin would fail him. I'm talking Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Spinks, etc. Tiger Jack Fox was a killer. He would KO Jones as soon as he hit him, and he WOULD hit him....H-A-R-D!

Answer 3

I agree. I'm not that impressed with Jones as Lt. Heavy. I have Spinks in top three at 175. Spinks jinx stops Jones in late rounds.

Answer 4

Spinks by KO. RJJ always had a chin made of glass it just took Antonio Tarver to expose it. Spinks was much better fighter than Tarver ever will be. Spinks would put RJJ to sleep early in the fight.

Answer 5

I would agree. A lot of people from the new generation will say jones due to him being fresh in their memories but what they do not realise is there were three times as many people boxing in heavy divisions back then.

In other words even a little known guy like spinks had to be a lot better than one of todays fighters just to be in there with them.

Ruiz is from an era flat out beating fat guys from the 1990's who themselves were getting beaten by fat old leftovers from the 1980's and 1970's.

Three times as many fighters makes for a much tougher competition.

Its like the US versus england in the olympics. The US has three times as many people and look what happens....

Answer 6

This is what would happen.Roy, using his boxing ability, and the fact that Michael is a slow starter, would get the early lead.By the fifth round, Michael would start finding his rhythmn, and by the eighth round, Roy is coldcocked outta there.