Sports Thread #1 For 12/3/09: Roy Jones, Please Retire Now
Photo Steve Christo While the casual fans of boxing have turned their attention towards the growing possibility of a Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao megafight like no other, some fans of the pugilistic sport may have seen a former great fighter signal his need to retire. Now. Roy Jones Jr. continued to tarnish his formerly legendary legacy by getting knocked out by some guy named Danny Green yesterday in Sydney....... 36 seconds into the fight . A first round knockout at the hands of the anonymous Aussie delivered Jones his worst loss of his career. Worse than getting a straight left hook to Antonio Tarver in the 2nd round of their rematch fight. Worse than getting pummeled by then journeyman Glen Johnson a few fights later. If Jones had won his fight, just like Bernard Hopkins did against little known Enrique Ornelas in Philadelphia , then both him and Hopkins would have encountered each other in a long awaited rematch of their first fight won by Jones in 1992. Both had to win in...
