Readers Comment: The fight was sold on lies, why?

Ivan Patterson
Queens,New York

03.03 - The Associated Press had Jones ahead 116-112 and that was the exact same score card I had. Some writers are now celebrating like Jones beat Ali, Tyson and Joe Louis in the same night. The truth is Jones defeated a mediocre heavyweight who was a belt holder. Jones is not the heavyweight champion of the world. He is nothing more than the description handed to Ruiz prior to this bout.

This was not a great fight, it was not spectacular, it was not even a good fight. Some rounds Ruiz only landed a mere 4 punches and in the same rounds Roy Jones only landed 6 punches. I am really not impressed with those stats.

Why was this fight sold on lies? In the last three weeks many writers repeated Roy Jones had a reach of 70 inches when in fact Jones has a 74 inch reach. This was just the beginning of the mountain of lies told during the promotion of this fight.

We were told that Jones would enter this fight at 183 pounds. At the weigh in before the fight last night Jones was 199 pounds. Roy Jones had the appearance of a heavyweight last night. When together in the ring it was not the small man vs the giant that so many wanted the public to believe. In fact Roys arms and neck was bigger than those of Ruiz. I am serious, Jones looked big last night. At 199lbs I would call Jones a heavyweight.

Jones fought the worse of all heavyweight champions last night. He did not fight Lewis, Klitschko or even Chris Byrd. Jones fought Ruiz, whom he knew he could beat.

I have a question, Why did Jones camp become so enraged when Roy Jones Jr's weight of 199 pounds was announced on live television? It gave the impression they wanted to keep this quiet to continue the charade of David vs Goliath. Oh by the way, Ruiz weighted in at 224 pounds last night. When side by side in the ring it was obvious this was not David vs Goliath.

Further more Roy is not the middleweight champion. This was promoted like Roy was a reigning middleweight champion. 10 years ago Roy Jones was a middle weight belt holder, nothing more. Roy Jones made one title defense of that belt. I do not think the press was honest with the public on many issues because they were content to repeat the lies that came from Roy Jones Jr.

Roy is now the WBA champion. The WBA heavyweight champion is obligated to face the WBA mandatory by July of this year. The WBA #1 Mandatory is Vitali Klitschko. Roy Jones has made various disparaging remarks about both Klitschkos in the past. Now it seems it is time for Roy Jones Jr to put up or shut up. This is the opportunity for Roy Jones to show us Vitali Klitschko is indeed hype. Come on Roy, fight your mandatory. I guarantee you he is not a John Ruiz.

One final question; why was Ruiz late getting to the Thomas Mack center? He arrived about 45 minutes before stepping through the ropes to meet Roy Jones. Is that enough time to get ready, and how serious could he have been? Ruiz looked awful and Jones did just enough to win, nothing more. The fight stunk.

Ivan Patterson
Queens,New York
ivan_patterson_9@hotmail.com

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