I'm surprised that no one has written more about Roy Jones going down. It's times like this that I wish Ralph Wiley was still around. Jones needs to hang them up. Don't think he will because it's hard for us to acknowledge when the body won't do what the mind wants it to.
It's particularly hard for someone who for so long has been one of the best ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET at what he does.
I think I gained an adult appreciation for excellence sometime in the mid-nineties. Part of it was related to Jordan's comeback--even though I wasn't a big Jordan fan the first go around. A big part of it was related to my increased dissection of my own game (basketball). And other random and sundry bits and pieces (you ever played a full 82 game season on nba live? if it's hard as hell to get up for the clippers in the virtual world imagine how hard it would be to get up for them in real life and STILL drop 30 and 10?).
So even though I wasn't a big boxing fan, I admired what Roy Jones was able to do. I don't ever think I'll be able to do anything in my arena like Jones did when he played a pro basketball game in the afternoon, then defended his crown in the evening.