Roy Jones Jr. or Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Who's the better boxer? (2024)

I'm talking about everything from skill to boxing career. To whatever else criteria you want to put. Just who's better boxer overall in your opinion?

Just love to see what the numbers will be like on here. Thank you.

it's floyd. Roy himself wouldn't consider himself the better boxer

StopDucking said:

Dumbest thread of the year so far.

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Thank you.

StopDucking said:

Dumbest thread of the year so far.

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did you miss Crawford vs SRR skill vs skill thread?

Roy looked super cool.

So he must be the GOAT.

mozfonky said:

who'd beat who on their best day in a pfp mythic match? Roy, that's who and it would be easy for him.

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This. No question.

mozfonky said:

who'd beat who on their best day in a pfp mythic match? Roy, that's who and it would be easy for him.

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Exactly, Floyd was the better TECHNICIAN and resume, but Roy would have boxed his ears off.

Floyd has stellar fundamentals.

Roy was gifted physically.

mozfonky said:

who'd beat who on their best day in a pfp mythic match? Roy, that's who and it would be easy for him.

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Luckily for Floyd, he's on his best day 7 days a week whereas Roy is only on his best day 4 days a week. The rest of the week, Roy's likelihood of beating someone in the top 10 of his weightclass is around 30%.

StopDucking said:

Luckily for Floyd, he's on his best day 7 days a week whereas Roy is only on his best day 4 days a week. The rest of the week, Roy's likelihood of beating someone in the top 10 of his weightclass is around 30%.

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Both were highly disciplined, no problem with their conditioning, they are about equal there and better than most champions in terms of not getting slovenly in training. Roy at his best was pure domination. He's a guy who went years without losing more than a few rounds.

mozfonky said:

Someone here quoted a fighter who claimed to spar both and he said Roy was faster even though he was a lot bigger. Forget who the fighter was. Roy had killer power at Middleweight and he kayoed or put down guys who didn't have a history of being put down or kayoed. He threw volleys of punches when he had a guy hurt, 30-40 punches and kayo written on most of them. Floyd wasn't a killer puncher so Roy's chin wouldn't factor and Roy was a great strategist. Floyd had a rock solid chin from what I could see so Roy probably wouldn't put him away but he'd outpoint him. The other thing, Floyd was conservative most of the time, he's not beating Roy like that.

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Honestly Roy had the more perceptive eyes and IQ too. Floyd knew the game inside and out, raised with it and disciplined, but Roy inherited it in his DNA with godgiftedness, and exhibited genius in real time like some pugilistic god. And I’m a big Floyd fan, but if unorthodox methods were difficultly for his very studied methods of defense and counters, then Roy would have made him look absolutely ridiculous.

When you compare both prime guys in the whole package sense you gotta consider that Roy was the better boxer. I absolutely agree Floyd was the better technique guy in the traditional sense, sure… but think about it, Roy would lead the exchanges, counter counters, land unorthodox combinations, win the footwork battle, do things Floyd could never prepare for aka improvise something new in real time, he could time Floyd and was faster too. I mean how does any of that make Floyd the better boxer? Hehe, but it’s all make believe what if’s anyway

At their best in their primes Roy is more than a league above Floyd . Its really no question. He was able to ridicule worldclass elite boxers and his feat of going up to HW defeating, while not the best, but a legitimate HW champ in Ruiz was outstanding.

Floyd even in his prime was a hometown fighter often coasting because he knew that he would get the win on points. Still worldclass but with Roy that was never even close to necessary. Career in general Floyd takes it as his is much longer and he depended less on reflexes and speed.

RJJ is underapreciated nowadays. The best p4p boxer of the last decades out of the US.