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ya, i know but he certainly didn't achieve anything after the roy fight, anything close to what a great fighter should. Glen Johnson wasn't any great fighter, Hopkins was what? 40 by that time? It puzzled me how such a fighter beat roy for a long time but I finally figured that it was that Roy lost his legs, he thought his legs were taking him to places they weren't anymore, Tarver wouldn't have even been that close to roy a few years earlier. I still remember when Roy fought Clinton Woods and was looking fine but at one point, out of the blue he backed into the ropes and I thought "that's not a good sign". I believe he lost his legs and why not, he'd been doing roadwork since he was five, they say his knees were so shot in later years that he couldn't even run. So, a stationary boxer is vulnerable. Ali dealt with losing his legs by becomiong a warrior, Roy didn't have the chin to do that.
Those are all solid points, nothing for me to really argue lol.
JMM over Pac.
I was thinking of putting this one, but thought some might bitch about the response since Manny does have 2 wins (I thought it should be 2-0-2 for JMM). Pretty good choice tho IMO, considering JMM is quite a bit smaller than a number of what at considered Pac's greatest wins. His straight down the pipe, counter punching style was the perfect foil. He would have knocked him out in other fights, if not for Pac having an amazing chin, and being a cardio/conditioning freak.