BOXING SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CASHMAN]

Loss Is Second in a Row for Reeling Superstar

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Sept. 25) -- Glen Johnson knocked out Roy Jones Jr. in the ninth round Saturday night to retain his IBF light heavyweight title and cast more doubt on the future of one of boxing's most storied fighters.


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Jones lay on his back moving only slightly for almost four minutes after he was felled by an overhand right, followed by a short left. Trainers filled a towel with ice and slid it under Jones' head as he lay on the canvas, but he had trouble opening his eyes.

Jones, 35, finally walked out of the ring with help from his trainers.

The defeat left Jones' once-impressive career in tatters.

Jones turned pro after the 1988 Olympics, where it was widely perceived he was robbed of the gold medal. He has won titles at classes ranging from middleweight to heavyweight -- last March he won a piece of the heavyweight title by taking the WBA crown from John Ruiz.

Last November, he captured the light heavyweight crown from Antonio Tarver in the first of their two fights. But he was defeated by a crashing left from Tarver in their rematch.

Johnson, 41-9-2, with 28 knockouts, came out the aggressor from the opening bell Saturday night. He threw a total of 437 punches to 270 for Jones and kept the challenger against the ropes for most of the fight.

By the seventh round, the crowd was booing and calling for more action from Jones.

"I beat him at his own game," said Johnson, a native of Jamaica who makes his home in Miami. "A lot of guys try to fight Roy from the outside, but I wanted to stay in on him."

The knockout came in Jones' first fight since Tarver beat him in May. Tarver landed a left that sent Jones sprawling in the second round and unable to continue.

Jones, 49-3, tried to argue then that he could continue the fight against Tarver.

There could be no such claim against Johnson on Saturday.


09/26/04 00:26 EDT

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[Rausch]

You might want to have a mod add "Boxing Spoiler" in the thread header.

But, since you've already spoiled it, Jones got completely schooled. He was clearly knocked clean the **** out. His head bounced off the ground, HARD, twice.

He's done. And as a guy who enjoyed watching him fight he NEEDS to retire...

[Rausch]

Damn, that was quick...

[CASHMAN]

Damn, that was quick...


HAPPY:):)




CASHMAN.

[Sure-Oz]

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[Tribal Warfare]

If Roy Jones was taken out by an over hand right in this fight then he needs to stick to the light heavyweight division and regain respect. I bet he'll challenge Tarver again

[Rausch]

If Roy Jones was taken out by an over hand right in this fight then he needs to stick to the light heavyweight division and regain respect. I bet he'll challenge Tarver again

That fight will never happen.

First, Tarver has nothing to gain and everything to lose. Tarver, right now, is known as the man that effectively ended the reign of Jr. and exposed his glass jaw. Jones is now damaged goods, and much like Tyson, the crowd will sour on two consecutive azz whoop'ns. Tarver will get less money for fight III than he would fighting another belt owner or contender.

Second, NEVER give a fighter the fight he needs to return to the spotlight. It's almost always a trap. Look at Ali, at Holyfield (sp?), Foreman, etc. All never should have won those big fights and did with about 2 oz. of "amazing" left in their old bodies.

Third, no one will pay to see Jr. get his azz handed to him again. I don't think he stands a snowball's chance in Hell at beating Tarver.

[Over-Head]

I don't think he stands a snowball's chance in Hell at beating Tarver.


They said the same thing about Buster Douglas when he went against Tyson :harumph:

[jagerdrinker]

Yeah, except there weren't two rematches in the Douglas vs. Tyson saga. It was a one fight deal. Jones needs to hang them up. That's the kind of knock-out that signifies the end of a career. That "overhand right" was a smasher, and those vidcaps don't show the short left that followed it. He was smoked like a king salmon.

[Ultra Peanut]

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Johnson finishes off Jones in ninth
By Gary Parrish
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September 26, 2004

The scene was surreal, the kind of moment that simply isn’t imaginable until it happens and you see it happen with your own eyes.

An entire building stunned.

A legend on his back unconscious.

A proverbial nobody who had been written off by most everybody staring into the crowd with his arms crossed and a look of satisfaction on his face.

Glen Johnson retained his IBF light heavyweight title by knocking out Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night at FedExForum. Raise your hand if you saw this coming.

‘‘I beat him at his own game,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘Nobody knew I had a knockout punch.’’

Now everybody knows. Every single person in boxing, including the oddsmakers who made the champion a huge underdog despite his belt.

That Johnson beat the man who routinely calls himself ‘‘Mr. Unstoppable’’ was surprising in its own right. But how convincingly he did it was something else altogether.

Out of nowhere in the ninth round, Johnson connected with an overhand right that caught Jones on the left ear and rendered him stunned. Less than a second later, Johnson landed a short left that sent Jones to the canvas for only the second time in his career.

And then, well, rarely is a 10 count so completely unnecessary. There was no doubt Jones wasn’t getting up, not with the way he was lying stiff, eyes closed and feet a few inches off the ground.

The bell rang, Johnson’s corner erupted into the ring and Jones still hadn’t moved, which turned that feeling of shock in terms of sports into something scary, the type of situation when people start to wonder if everything is going to be OK.

In the crowd — that eerily hushed crowd — Jones’s children were crying among more than 13,000 strangers who were all in disbelief.

One minute passed. Jones remained on the canvas.

Another minute passed. Still nothing.

Another minute passed. Still down.

It took four minutes for doctors to get Jones off his back.

All of a sudden, Antonio Tarver’s knockout of the future Hall of Famer last May didn’t look like such a fluke, and it was absolutely no longer a once-in-a-career type deal.

‘‘I looked for him with the left hook, then I waited and got no response,’’ Johnson said while explaining the precursor to the knockout. ‘‘So . . . I hit him again.’’

And one more time, for good measure. Which legitimized Johnson among his peers and sent Jones’s career into a place of uncertainty.

All last week, Jones openly discussed his next fight and made it clear he had no interest in doing anything that wouldn’t bring pay-per-view and several million dollars.

But now, who knows what’s next, and how much interest there will be in a 35 year-old who has been knocked-out in his last two starts?

Thus, a third match with Tarver doesn’t seem on deck, which is disappointing to Tarver and, presumably, will cost him a lot of money.

‘‘I didn’t see the knockout punch coming, and I didn’t want to see it coming because another fight with (Jones) is what boxing fans want to see,’’ Tarver said. ‘‘I was his biggest fan tonight.’’

So will Jones now retire? Perhaps that’s a possibility.

But Jones doesn’t seem like the type to go out like this, and by this we mean under the supervision of his trainer some 20 minutes after the fight ended. And then to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis in an ambulance.

Meanwhile, Johnson conducted interviews following his victory and didn’t claim dominance. Instead, he was a gentleman, just like his nickname would suggest.

‘‘I’m not the best,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘I’m just a guy who’s willing to fight the best.’’

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[Valiant]

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almost looks rigged...i have knocked somebody out before and their arms did not stay up and slowly go down...they flopped like a rock... i bet jones bet the house on his loss...

[ZootedGranny]

That's because in that gif file, you don't hear the sound of Jones head slamming the mat like a ton of bricks. The punch put him down, but it was his skull slapping the canvas that froze him.

[MOhillbilly]

Anyone catch the highlights of the Flores fight at the Shrine?
Ive never ever seen someone get KOd and have there legs buckle like that.
Busted his eardrum.
ouch!

[MOhillbilly]

That's because in that gif file, you don't hear the sound of Jones head slamming the mat like a ton of bricks. The punch put him down, but it was his skull slapping the canvas that froze him.


Like when tank abbot KOd that dude in one of his first ufc fights,then stood over him and laughed.ROFL

[Rausch]

That's because in that gif file, you don't hear the sound of Jones head slamming the mat like a ton of bricks. The punch put him down, but it was his skull slapping the canvas that froze him.

I'm surprised he doesn't have serious brain trauma.

Watching the fight there is no doubt the man was out. He was out on his feet before the last punch...

[MOhillbilly]

almost looks rigged...i have knocked somebody out before and their arms did not stay up and slowly go down...they flopped like a rock... i bet jones bet the house on his loss...

The human body reacts diffrently to head trauma.Like i seen a guy get beat so bad he was mooing like a cow.
ROFL
When he woke up an hour later he swore he was going to get beer and a cowboy beat him up.ROFL
I myself have seen in person people *freeze* standing up and then fall over like a tree.ROFL
Talk is cheap & violence is funny.:)