JONES - TRINIDAD WEEK AFTER REPORT


By George Elsasser

 

 
 
 

 
-Photo Credit: D M Warr/DKP-

 

Good news is I once again passed on the PPV insult - yes, without a doubt both RJJ and Tito were respective top of the class multi-champions when at prime time - but heisting PPV mega-bucks at this point is nothing more than targeting the curious and the uninitiated. 

All precincts were in a week ago, and with it, there would be no surprises on how this one would play out. 

Trinidad arrives off two year retirement - the mind ready as he answers the opening bell in typical all business approach - and what we see is Tito grabbing some three of five of the early stanzas.

But the signs were this would not be his night - Jones takes the early rounds off to get feel for the incoming - then, mixes slapstick with fight biz, in a look more suitable for vaudeville than the PPV fight prices that were lifted from the viewers.

Once aware Tito failed to bring the punching power up from his glory years at welter-middle levels Roy would take command - but for sure this age 39 model ain’t what it used to be.

Still, the “names” were tossed around for Roy’s next opponent - Calzaghe, Hopkins, Pavlik, Taylor - Oscarita anyone?

Nothing would surprise.

GEL -    

12-16-2007

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