Not to mention defense of belts too far apart in weight classes... Choose One, the human body won't be optimal going up and down so often. If Tarver was soooo good,how long did he keep the belts....as a murderous puncher,and a Mfer of a boxer,Joe?
if Roy woulda been serious the 1st fight & really trained to get back down to light heavyweight after bearing ruiz at heavyweight he woulda killt Tarver but he was too arrogant & he just expected to beat Tarver & get the belt he vacated to move up to heavyweight. He actually shoulda fought Tarver 1st while he was accustomed light heavyweight then move up & fight at heavyweight. Quick weight drop to make the 1st fight was his fk up. Sorry RJJ my boy got clocked then he fight Glen Johnson & got KOd again😮 damn yo.
Roy wasn’t in his prime nomore Roy at 35 went from 193 to 174 in two months to fight him again tarver is a pussy for not moving up to fight Roy he lost speed and power there’s only so much your body can take
😄 no accent , drove Pacquiao many times, from his weigh in for the DeLahoya fight he didn't smile or blink ,unlike him. Usually he and his entourage were laughing and joking not that day. Next afternoon drove a guy from the airport who was there for the fight, asked me who I liked told hm drove Pacquiao and had never seen him so focused . Took him back to the airport Sunday morning, he shook my hand and said thanks for the heads up ,he put 5k on Manny for a ko or tko under 10 ,got 9-1 payout 45k and his money back ... $500 tip😄🤣
@@charles7922Don’t disrespect people who are earning a living or talking about past work experiences. What’s the matter with you? Anyone who’s working to put food on the table shouldn’t be mocked. 🤡
I remember when he fought Rocky Balboa in 2006. He ended up breaking his hand in that fight and kept going. It was awesome, he still won the fight, but Balboa gave him his hardest fight yet. Crazy too, it was a comeback for Rock he was 60yrs old then too! Imagine if he was in his prime smh
@@jt2498 jeez.....really kid....you can not be that dense and idiotic that you didn't realise that this comment was meant as a joke 🙄. It's people like you that make me hate people 🙄 😒. I bet you have the most PUNCHABLE face ever
@@jeremywashington7699 I remember being shocked when Roy Jones couldn't beat him in the 3rd fight. It was very interesting to see. Like watching talent melt away.
He DESTROYED his body chemistry when he moved up to Heavyweight to fight John Ruiz, then quickly lost weight to fight Target. He was NEVER the same after doing that.
@@methos1592he was already out his prime before he moved to heavyweight, by the time he came back down you could see he was done. He wasn’t moving the same at all
@@methos1592 he lost his speed. He wanted to retire but Tarver baited him by calling him out in front of everyone. He lost like 30pounds of muscle in 3 months to fit the light heavyweight division.
Roy Jones jr. Is a good dude he takes care of Gerald McCallum that I knew very well from Kronk Gym in Detroit after he was paralyzed from getting robbed against Nigel Benn overseas also Roy Jones jr. Would fight guys that's been fighting for years and haven't made any money so he made sure a lot of people got a Payday
I remember this fight, Roy was never the same after that medical knockout, big respect to Tarver, he got his redemption and got out of Roy Jones's shadow and then beat him even quicker in their rematch!!!😮
Very few people remember Antonio Tarver. Roy Jones Jr. will forever be in the history books as one of the best middle weights of all times. Props to Roy for moving up in weight and always looking for a challenge.
This ! This was the bedt time is boxing for me personally. These were some of the best fights in history. You couldn't fo to the bathroom or get a drink. Fights were so unpredictable 😳
Insanely disrespectful to Roy, I get the idea of the comp, Great fighter who ended there career getting chinned a bunch! But comparing Liddell to Roy, is like comparing Steve Forbes to Floyd mayweather!
@@bondsgoat25 nah you definitely been hitting the crack pipe to much when you typed that ass comparison. Hilarious you made a worse comparison comparing his half baked comparison to that brain dead one you made "Steve Forbes like Mayweather" bro you need some help.
@BondsGoat25 Lol no respect for the Ice man huh? Chuck in his prime was unstoppable. He had 3 early career losses but than went on a streak evenging 2 of them. He defended his lhw title 5 times and each defense he won by knockout and at 1 point was 20-3.. He also kod a long list of former and future champions. He kod Randy Couture who was a former ufc lhw champ and future ufc heavyweight champ twice, he kod Tito Ortiz who was a former lhw champ twice, he kod Kevin Randleman who was a former ufc heavyweight champ, He KOd Alister Overeem who was a future strikeforce heavyweight champ, he beat Vitor Belfort who was former ufc lhw champ, he beat Wanderlie Silva who was a former pride lhw champ..KOd Babalu who was on a 10 fight winning streak twice..Chuck Liddell was always known to have an iron chin and would take big punch to give an even bigger punch and always gave it 100% effort. But unfortunately he lost his iron chin in his war against Wanderlie Silva and faught way past his prime. But even after fighting past his prime at the end of his ufc career he was fighting all future or former lhw champs and was winning every fight up until he got kod and it was sad because his once iron chin was now glass. Punches that he would of eaten for breakfast in his prime were brutally knocking him out cold. The only fight he looked bad in was the 3rd Tito fight that he took at like 50 years old.
I played poker with taver back in early 2000's and one night he said roy wants no parts of me ... everyone at the table laughed at him ......he showed us
This is what pisses me off about current boxers today. It’s okay to take an L and come back and either 1) avenge it, or 2) fight and beat another few top ranked opponents. Instead everyone wants to protect that 0 like they Floyd. Y’all are NOT floyd, get tf in that ring 😂
It wasn't Prime Roy Jones no more by then, and he had just come down in weight from fighting John Ruiz at Heavyweight to fight Tarver at 175 lbs. Not to say Tarver wasn't a good fighter, but he got to take advantage of that opportunity.
Yea that’s the boxing industry for ya tho, but Roy Jones got tired of the famous life he was living and gave it up with losses after loss and didn’t want it anymore.
Let’s clarify. They fought 3 times. The first time was when Jones beat Ruiz for the WBA Heavyweight title. Jones was the 2nd person in history to go from middleweight champion all the way to heavyweight champion. His next fight after winning the heavyweight title was Tarver at ligh-heavyweight. He beat Tarver. Joe is talking about they’re 3rd fight. Jones was 37 by that time. Remember, Jones fought until he was 49. Jones was a 5 division champ, Undisputed at 175, most title defenses at 175, 2nd fighter in 100 years to be a champion at 160 and heavyweight. He also has the longest boxing career… 33 years. Had he retired after the first Tarver fight, his record would be 49-1.
Tarver was great but if he fought Roy before he went to heavyweight he would have got destroyed. Tarver was technically a better boxer but PRIME ROY was god gifted generational talent
In roys prime he was unbeatable.
Facts
This was the beginning of the end of his prime
It kills me how they act like they don't know. Roy was 50 when he lost. Smh
Not to mention defense of belts too far apart in weight classes... Choose One, the human body won't be optimal going up and down so often.
If Tarver was soooo good,how long did he keep the belts....as a murderous puncher,and a Mfer of a boxer,Joe?
@@erickstanford519 He was 35.
That’s badass
if Roy woulda been serious the 1st fight & really trained to get back down to light heavyweight after bearing ruiz at heavyweight he woulda killt Tarver but he was too arrogant & he just expected to beat Tarver & get the belt he vacated to move up to heavyweight. He actually shoulda fought Tarver 1st while he was accustomed light heavyweight then move up & fight at heavyweight. Quick weight drop to make the 1st fight was his fk up. Sorry RJJ my boy got clocked then he fight Glen Johnson & got KOd again😮 damn yo.
Roy wasn’t in his prime nomore Roy at 35 went from 193 to 174 in two months to fight him again tarver is a pussy for not moving up to fight Roy he lost speed and power there’s only so much your body can take
As a kid that fight hurt my soul!!! Roy still the champ to me
Mine too, my homies had to console me.
Same 😢
Watchin this clip showed me that I'm still not over this yet😢😢I still hate Tarver😂
💯
I was a grown adult and that fight hurt my soul
Roy Jones in his prime was a beast
I heard he drink a lot of juice
@@haroldhaggie306 I take it back then !! Thank you .
@@haroldhaggie306 What is ‘juice’?
@@philiphewitt1801it might not even be true
@@mmcneil777 steroids
Roy already went all the way up to heavyweight. Tarver couldn't touch Roy in his prime and weight class.
Roy didn't fight anyone for the majority of his career and when he did he lost, so i dont know where you think "prime" roy would be triumphant
@@nineether3757 😂😂😂😂😂
@@nineether3757 he fought and embarrassed prime James Toney
Lets not forget that... after he drained weight to go back down his career wasn't the same
@@nineether3757you're high af
Antonio Tarver, gentleman
Drove him at the MGM when he was filming Rocky ,great guy and great tipper
Did u open his door too? Or call him sir in a London accent 😂 on here proud to b the help 😂
😄 no accent , drove Pacquiao many times, from his weigh in for the DeLahoya fight he didn't smile or blink ,unlike him.
Usually he and his entourage were laughing and joking not that day.
Next afternoon drove a guy from the airport who was there for the fight, asked me who I liked told hm drove Pacquiao and had never seen him so focused .
Took him back to the airport Sunday morning, he shook my hand and said thanks for the heads up ,he put 5k on Manny for a ko or tko under 10 ,got 9-1 payout 45k and his money back ... $500 tip😄🤣
My ex wife dated Tarver. Hes a coke head and abusive. Not my words but hers 😂
@@charles7922Don’t disrespect people who are earning a living or talking about past work experiences. What’s the matter with you? Anyone who’s working to put food on the table shouldn’t be mocked. 🤡
I remember when he fought Rocky Balboa in 2006. He ended up breaking his hand in that fight and kept going. It was awesome, he still won the fight, but Balboa gave him his hardest fight yet. Crazy too, it was a comeback for Rock he was 60yrs old then too! Imagine if he was in his prime smh
It was a movie bro smh 🤦♂️
@@jt2498 man look up the word sarcasm
@@MVP1st nah this actually true , was based on a true story , his wife's name is Adrian.
Lol
@@jt2498 jeez.....really kid....you can not be that dense and idiotic that you didn't realise that this comment was meant as a joke 🙄. It's people like you that make me hate people 🙄 😒. I bet you have the most PUNCHABLE face ever
Tarver was a badass man with venom in his punshes
Tarver was a dooe cheat
@@robertsitton7310interesting
Tarver used peds
Tarver was a pain in the ass
@@jeremywashington7699 I remember being shocked when Roy Jones couldn't beat him in the 3rd fight. It was very interesting to see. Like watching talent melt away.
I was so pumped about this until I saw Roy Jones jr go down!
Roy is my favourite boxer of all time and when I seen him get dropped I struggled to grasp what happened
He DESTROYED his body chemistry when he moved up to Heavyweight to fight John Ruiz, then quickly lost weight to fight Target. He was NEVER the same after doing that.
End of his career man..time happens
@@stevenewarkjrloveyoubuddy3549 unfortunately, it wasn't. And the descent was hard to watch
@@robmckrobmck5567yeah it was hard. This dude went from not losing a round for a decade to becoming a punching bag. Hard to watch for sure.
@@nybirdman Wow.
he really said “ it’s time to go to sleep “ 🥊
Feel like Creed was inspired by this
"You're on your own now Donnie"-Damien
This guy was in Rocky. I think
@@EnrijHe played Mason Dixon in Rocky Balboa. It was a pretty great movie too.
Roy was a badass but out of prime dude. Dude is still fighting til this day... 😒 that's the crazy thing...
He was not out of Prime for this fight NO, DO NOT DO THAT! He just got beat
@@methos1592he was already out his prime before he moved to heavyweight, by the time he came back down you could see he was done. He wasn’t moving the same at all
@@methos1592 he lost his speed. He wanted to retire but Tarver baited him by calling him out in front of everyone. He lost like 30pounds of muscle in 3 months to fit the light heavyweight division.
Coldest lines ever❤
This was Roy jones jr past his best
When Roy didn't say anything slick in response to Tarver calling him out, I knew Roy was in trouble.
He was not even close to Jones. Roy was on the decline and Tarver was a1 hit wonder
Roy Jones jr. Is a good dude he takes care of Gerald McCallum that I knew very well from Kronk Gym in Detroit after he was paralyzed from getting robbed against Nigel Benn overseas also Roy Jones jr. Would fight guys that's been fighting for years and haven't made any money so he made sure a lot of people got a Payday
Sir. You must mean Gerald McClellan!
Got robbed against Benn? He got sparked out simple
Benn beat Gerald convincingly
They both got destroyed by Bernard Hopkins though, Roy Jones Jr. Will always be one of my personal favorites, and a living boxing legend
Ahh ain't nobody got destroyed by Bernard nothin!!! But roy never should've came back down to light from heavyweight.
B.Hop was one of my faves growing up!!!
Roy beat Bernard
And for real! The only fighter bernard ever destroyed Ever!!! was tito Trinidad.
You trippin a prime Roy Jones tour Bernard Hopkins ass up
Antonio had the Confidence 🤛🏽
*words spoken before disaster*
“Any excuses tonight, Roy!?”
Just realized tarver is the guy they use in rocky 6 lol
nah that was Mason Dixon, dude has crazy height and reach
Thats a man who can back his verbal, respect 🙌
I remember this fight, Roy was never the same after that medical knockout, big respect to Tarver, he got his redemption and got out of Roy Jones's shadow and then beat him even quicker in their rematch!!!😮
Roy was the best boxer of all time in his prime he was definitely underrated
You ever hear of a guy named Sugar Ray Robinson?
You couldnt takethat moment away from Antonio! That was his night and his statement proved it.
He ain’t just knock him out
He put him to bed
I remember that fight and I damn near cried that night 🥊😭
Me too
@@stevedeeznutz8432 He wasn't the same after that knockout 🥊😭
And now they have a podcast together 😂 magic maaan
They have a podcast together when Tarver been talking trash about Roy outside the ring.
Roy wasn't the same after that ko.
Facts
Tarver basically shook Roy's Spine with that Primal Concrete Sledge Left Hook .
When Tarver knockout Roy Jones it hurt my soul I still feel it til this day❤
Roy was never the same after that.
Tarver was a beast!!!
Dude was mid at best. He got lucky with timing... old Roy that moved up and down from heavyweight which ruined him at his age
He did rocky and beat old Roy. Mid tier shit
Dirtbag
Your beautiful and glad your recovering YOU WILL GET BETTER For sure. And you make people happy i can tell so sweet and warm hearted.
I remember watching this fight. Never thought it was gonna be the beginning of the end for Roy but it was.
On my soul when Antonio Tarver said that I knew Roy was in trouble Should’ve kept his dad on his team.
Roy the g.o.a.t 🐐
No he’s not😂
Roy lost a step by then. In Roys prime, Tarver would have been floundering on the canvas!
He didn’t lose a step he got off the juice
The Jones-Tarver rematch should’ve never happened, period!
Roy's had the speed and reflexes to get away with bad habits. He got caught because he didn't adapt as his body got older.
Roy jones in he’s prime would of schooled tarver
Roy in his prime was unbeatable. He really was in a league of his own. Like a man fighting all little boys. He had no weakness.
Roy didn't Say anything But the Teff did 😂
That one hurt as much as Tyson losing to Douglas
Yeah I remember that fight. It was so surreal at the time to see roy knocked out. Then glen johnson did him in too.
yeah, that's when I knew he was done smh
Love how joe knows boxing history..
Droppin wisdom to us blind and deaf people 😂.
This was the day my childhood superhero became human to me
Every dog has his day
I watched this fight the week after my 15th birthday and it hurt me to see Roy on the canvas like that. Bro was my hero
Tarver is gangster👹 stuff 👑🥊😂
Roy was undefeated champion he just didn’t stop fighting when he should’ve
He was old then. Roy jones jr is a beast.
That beep hurts
This shit cold asf 🥶🥶
This Roy was a shadow of prime Roy. It’s like watching Ali v Holmes
Tarver studied jones to the tea...he knew jones why because they new each other...
Damn took me back I watched this fight live
Tarver need to be a commentator
Roy predicted Crawford vs Spence! Someone need to hire him
TARVER caught JONES with JONES'signature left hook.
Roy had to cut a ton of weight for that fight and it took his prime away. Prime roy takes him out easy.
Exactly. The difference was night and day. He wasn’t Roy that fight. He was Roy’s cousin.
excuses 😂
@HP How? You don't understand I get it lol
YOU GOT ANY EXCUSES TONIGHT ROYYY‼️‼️‼️😂😂😂😂
Antonio wasn't shit he got knocked out by a lesser fighter his very next fight 😂😂😂
Very few people remember Antonio Tarver. Roy Jones Jr. will forever be in the history books as one of the best middle weights of all times. Props to Roy for moving up in weight and always looking for a challenge.
Tarver used Jones style and tactics against him
First sign of Roy aging out
Yeah but they are the same EXACT AGE.... So it doesn't work as an excuse for this fight
This ! This was the bedt time is boxing for me personally. These were some of the best fights in history. You couldn't fo to the bathroom or get a drink. Fights were so unpredictable 😳
That was cold
Sleep with sweet dreams 😂
I remember!💯⚘️☝️#Tarver🥊🔥
Roy is like the chuck Lidell of boxing
Insanely disrespectful to Roy, I get the idea of the comp, Great fighter who ended there career getting chinned a bunch!
But comparing Liddell to Roy, is like comparing Steve Forbes to Floyd mayweather!
@@bondsgoat25 nah you definitely been hitting the crack pipe to much when you typed that ass comparison. Hilarious you made a worse comparison comparing his half baked comparison to that brain dead one you made "Steve Forbes like Mayweather" bro you need some help.
@BondsGoat25 Lol no respect for the Ice man huh? Chuck in his prime was unstoppable. He had 3 early career losses but than went on a streak evenging 2 of them. He defended his lhw title 5 times and each defense he won by knockout and at 1 point was 20-3.. He also kod a long list of former and future champions. He kod Randy Couture who was a former ufc lhw champ and future ufc heavyweight champ twice, he kod Tito Ortiz who was a former lhw champ twice, he kod Kevin Randleman who was a former ufc heavyweight champ, He KOd Alister Overeem who was a future strikeforce heavyweight champ, he beat Vitor Belfort who was former ufc lhw champ, he beat Wanderlie Silva who was a former pride lhw champ..KOd Babalu who was on a 10 fight winning streak twice..Chuck Liddell was always known to have an iron chin and would take big punch to give an even bigger punch and always gave it 100% effort. But unfortunately he lost his iron chin in his war against Wanderlie Silva and faught way past his prime. But even after fighting past his prime at the end of his ufc career he was fighting all future or former lhw champs and was winning every fight up until he got kod and it was sad because his once iron chin was now glass. Punches that he would of eaten for breakfast in his prime were brutally knocking him out cold. The only fight he looked bad in was the 3rd Tito fight that he took at like 50 years old.
Tarver had Roy ‘s number . The best of Roy was over around then 🥊 Roy in his heyday was awesomely exciting 🥊
It’s that left hook son
Never forget it
Jones was never the same after this
I played poker with taver back in early 2000's and one night he said roy wants no parts of me ... everyone at the table laughed at him ......he showed us
This is what pisses me off about current boxers today. It’s okay to take an L and come back and either 1) avenge it, or 2) fight and beat another few top ranked opponents. Instead everyone wants to protect that 0 like they Floyd. Y’all are NOT floyd, get tf in that ring 😂
Tarver was juiced tf up
😂😂
It wasn't Prime Roy Jones no more by then, and he had just come down in weight from fighting John Ruiz at Heavyweight to fight Tarver at 175 lbs. Not to say Tarver wasn't a good fighter, but he got to take advantage of that opportunity.
And was never the same fighter after that. Tarver broke his fighter’s spirit
And then Antonio fought B Hop
Listen pound for pound Roy is my guy! ❤
Yea that’s the boxing industry for ya tho, but Roy Jones got tired of the famous life he was living and gave it up with losses after loss and didn’t want it anymore.
This whole comment section full of roy fans who cant fathom the fact he lost a fight just like most champs 😂
Let’s clarify. They fought 3 times. The first time was when Jones beat Ruiz for the WBA Heavyweight title. Jones was the 2nd person in history to go from middleweight champion all the way to heavyweight champion. His next fight after winning the heavyweight title was Tarver at ligh-heavyweight. He beat Tarver. Joe is talking about they’re 3rd fight. Jones was 37 by that time. Remember, Jones fought until he was 49. Jones was a 5 division champ, Undisputed at 175, most title defenses at 175, 2nd fighter in 100 years to be a champion at 160 and heavyweight. He also has the longest boxing career… 33 years. Had he retired after the first Tarver fight, his record would be 49-1.
Roy in his prime nobody could touch him
That’s Mason Dixon. He beat a 50 year old Rocky Balboa in a split decision
Ahh man... that one hurt me...
In fairness, Roy was pretty well past his best years. It’s unfortunate that age is real when it comes to fighting.
Leaves us all wondering.
Magic man
Watched that fight in real time. Was as shocked as everyone....
Within a year he beat, roy jones, tarver and clintin woods, all top LHW, I respect the road warrior
man he fought Roy after Roy's prime, after winning heavyweight and having to comeback down and defend his light heavyweight.
Still an L. Roy was his own promoter, he rushed himself into that 2nd fight, didnt respect his opponent and got caught.
Crawford got DAT same energy torver had
Tarver DID that!!
Jones was already a shot fighter then
All about matchups . Tarver wasnt fearful of Roy at all and stalked him .
This how it’s finna go wit erol Spence n Crawford hate to say it
Whos gonna win?
Tarver was great but if he fought Roy before he went to heavyweight he would have got destroyed. Tarver was technically a better boxer but PRIME ROY was god gifted generational talent
Roy had already won a MD unanimous decision over tarver 2003. Vegas.
2 very excellent fighters
Hated seeing Roy lose like that
Roy Jones should have never fired his dad and tried to take over training camp. Ryan Garcia.🤣🤣🤣🤣