Felix "TITO" Trinidad out of Retirement, INKS to fight Roy Jones!!!!

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

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Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Felix Trinidad is coming out of retirement again, this time for a shot at Roy Jones Jr.

Trinidad, who hasn't fought since losing to Winky Wright in May 2005 and who's won only two bouts in the last six years, announced plans Monday to meet Jones in January at an undetermined site.

"It's the people's championship," promoter Don King called it, flanked by both fighters at his South Florida headquarters.

Trinidad is a former welterweight, super welterweight and middleweight champion and a national hero in his homeland of Puerto Rico. He took 2½ years off before beating Ricardo Mayorga in 2004, but was dominated when he met Wright seven months later.

He retired again after that fight, but whispers of a Trinidad-Jones possible matchup have been circling for months.

"Most fighters of 'Tito' Trinidad's stature would want a warmup fight after being off for this long," King said. "Not 'Tito' Trinidad."

Trinidad is 42-2; Jones Jr., who scored a unanimous decision against previously undefeated Anthony Hanshaw last month, is 51-4.

"This is going to be one of the most thrilling events we've seen in boxing in many, many decades," King said. "This is about pleasing the people."

MattRain · Aug 13, 2007

:ughhh: Trinidad is way too small for Jones. Both are pretty much equally shot, so:

Jones KO8

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

Jones has no chin, he's been exposed by Tarver and Glen Johnson. Trinidad TKO9

MattRain · Aug 13, 2007

Marlin68 said:
Jones has no chin, he's been exposed by Tarver and Glen Johnson. Trinidad TKO9

Dude, no. Trinidad won't carry any power up to their contracted weight of 170. He's a natural 154, whereas Tarver was killing himself to make 175. Johnson, like Jones, is a true 175.

Jones' shaky old chin is a non-issue against Trinidad.

HPark1 · Aug 13, 2007

Jeez Jones has found a name to fight to re-establish his "legendary" reputation.

This guy is worse than Mayweather.

MattRain · Aug 13, 2007

This fight makes absolutely no sense. It looks like it's Trinidad who went after Jones, not the other way around.

Trinidad is too proud to fight tune-up fights. He's an idiot at this point - Jones will send him into his third retirement.

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

Matt Rain said:
Dude, no. Trinidad won't carry any power up to their contracted weight of 170. He's a natural 154, whereas Tarver was killing himself to make 175. Johnson is a true 175.

Jones' shaky old chin is a non-issue against Trinidad.

Trinidad did have power at 160, TKO'd Mayorga. Yes, I know he was an overblown 160, but considering he started at 147, I think he has a descent shot. Jones best shot at wiining is not to get caught and out box him ala Hopkins

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

Matt Rain said:
This fight makes absolutely no sense. It looks like it's Trinidad who went after Jones, not the other way around.

Trinidad is too proud to fight tune-up fights. He's an idiot at this point - Jones will send him into his third retirement.

Prime Jones, yes. But the Jones we have recently seen, if Trinidad goes after him, he will send Jones on the canvas for a KO his thrid time.

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

both bhop and winky have very solid defense. roy does not. he can be hit....tito has a chance. the problem is....roy still has some zip on his shots. i think it comes down to who lands first....similar to vargas/mayorga

MattRain · Aug 13, 2007

And he most likely will. If you've seen his last fight against Hanshaw, he's still got mad handspeed. The legs are shot though, and Trinidad will need to exploit that to have a shot to outpoint Jones. I just don't see it happening - the guy was unable to win a single round against Wright, for Christ's sake.

Tito's done, it makes me sad to see him come back once again. Jones is also overextending his career since his loss to Johnson, but he's still got enough natural athletic ability to beat a smaller foe like Tito, IMO.

Can't wait to see the line on Jones by stoppage.

bulldogboogers · Aug 13, 2007

Lock It In Quick !!!! Jones Easy !!! :103631605

MattRain · Aug 13, 2007

Marlin68 said:
Prime Jones, yes. But the Jones we have recently seen, if Trinidad goes after him, he will send Jones on the canvas for a KO his thrid time.

No. You're underestimating the size differential. Tito couldn't punch at 160 (Mayorga doesn't count for the very reason you stated), what do you think he'll do at 170?

A shot Jones beats a shot Tito easily.

Marlin68 · Aug 13, 2007

Completely? Not quite completely. For "completely shot", look to Matthew Saad Muhammad who, after being whipped by Braxton, couldn't even beat club fighters most of the time. I mean he got beaten by 4 round fighters after that. That's completely shot. Jones has beaten two guys in the top ten, both of whom thought he was completely shot and that they were going to be getting a payday after they beat him. They both lost by a large margin. A fighter who is completely shot can't do that, not even close. Ali against Holmes and Berbick...completely shot.

I saw some of the Jones/Hanshaw fight and it made me sick. Watching him play tricks made me think of a SHOT Ali mugging the crowd against Evangelista. He just didn't have anything special anymore. I saw one or two combinations over 12 rounds that reminded me of RJJ of old, but other than that it was a good fighter beating a decent fighter. The old Roy Jones is SHOT. The RJJ of today still has enough left to beat most fighters, but the elite ones will own him. Luckily Trinidad isn't an elite fighter, having been beaten easily by the three best guys he stepped in the ring with. His only hope is to land the bomb. He has no other chance, no plan B, no ability to alter his game plan, to adjust strategy, nothing. If he doesn't land the bomb, he loses 10 rounds of 12 and retires again. If he lands one, he's gonna get a big fight after that and get completely waxed again. Either way, I enjoy seeing him embarrassed. But it's not a problem I have with Trinidad, it's every massively overrated fighter that I love to watch being given a reality check. I think if Jones wins this one, he's gonna get a big fight, too, and he's going to get waxed. Either way, it's going to be fun to see.

GreenDoberman · Aug 13, 2007

Good Lord, these boxers don't know when to hang it up.

I'll never get the image out of my mind of talking to Terry Norris when he came in to play craps one day. Absolute mumbo-jumbo coming out of his mush mouth from all the damage. My dealers were like "who was that bum?". I'm like that guy was a world champ. They thought he was some homeless guy. Boxing can be a sickening sport at times.

bulldogboogers · Aug 13, 2007

mome on martin68.....glad your back !!! i have not seen you on this site sense your boy oscar da la hoya got his ass spanked by FLOYD you know him..... the pound for pound guy !!! jones dude and it will be easy !!! p.s. and don't tell me your taking HATTON over FLOYD dec 8th !!!! :WTF: :WTF: :WTF: :WTF:

VIEJODINOSAUR · Aug 13, 2007

Boring....two over the hill fighters promoted by Don King......

TomBrady#1 · Aug 13, 2007

Matt Rain said:
:ughhh: Trinidad is way too small for Jones. Both are pretty much equally shot, so:

Jones KO8

Roy Jones is one of the biggest wimps in boxing history. He fights Vinny Paz (a guy half his size). Refused to fight in Germany even though it would have been a bigger pay day years ago. Now he fights another smaller fighter. Go fight Holyfield....oh he chickened out on that one years ago too.

lifexpired · Aug 13, 2007

Tom Brady#1 said:
Roy Jones is one of the biggest wimps in boxing history. He fights Vinny Paz (a guy half his size). Refused to fight in Germany even though it would have been a bigger pay day years ago. Now he fights another smaller fighter. Go fight Holyfield....oh he chickened out on that one years ago too.

Agree, RJJ always looked to fight the easy fight, hope Tito knocks him the F out

pleasewin · Aug 13, 2007

Boxing=not Even A Funny Joke

these guys are such pussys. yes i know they would knock me the fuck out. but people please. football, basketball even hockey players are twice the athelete.