Max Kellerman

Their guy was the best, right?

Crawford's one of those guys.

He's like the boxing fans who watched Crawford in this era might pick him against anyone ever when all is said and done.

So what no one was saying at the time, but everyone was thinking was, he might be the best fighter of all time, right?

Like everyone would say Muhammad Ali, but it's almost out of respect.

What people were feeling is that.

And if I would have told you on that night, there's a junior middleweight amateur who's only a year younger than Mike, who will never come close to actually losing a fight,

who will be the champion at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, jump up to heavyweight, beat a top five guy, and one day open as a two-to-one favorite to beat Mike Tyson.

You would say that is not possible.

If what you're saying is true, you're describing the greatest fighter ever.

That was Roy Jones.

At the moment he beat John Ruiz, had he never melted off 25 pounds of lean muscle to go back down to light heavy, where he was never the same again.

Well, and then he got cold cocked.

He didn't melt off 25 pounds of fat.

He was all muscle.

He melted off 25 pounds of lean muscle and was visibly not the same guy.

It wasn't just the Tarver knockout.

He fought a guy, Glencoff Johnson.

He got abused every round and knocked out.

Roy never lost a round.