Green crushes Jones: Where does this leave Hopkins?
December 2nd, 2009
By William Mackay: Bernard Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 KO’s) must be really sad and disappointed right about now after discovering the news that Roy Jones Jr., who was supposed to be his next opponent after tonight’s bout with middleweight Enrique Ornelas, was stopped in the 1st round by International Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Danny Green on Wednesday evening in Sydney, Australia. It was a very poor fight for Jones, who looked nothing like his old self. He did look old, but not in a good way. Green jumped all over the 40-year-old Jones, knocking him down with a right hand and landing a blizzard of shots to the head of Jones until referee Howard John Foster stepped in and stopped the carnage at 2:02 of the 1st.
However, at 40, Jones isn’t the same fighter he was a decade ago and can’t afford to take fights against hard hitters like Green. As such, Jones needs to think seriously about retiring from boxing. Certainly, Jones can continue fighting washed up former stars and fringe stars of the sport, but that’s probably about as far as he can go.
Last year, Jones was spanked badly in a one-sided 12 round decision loss to Joe Calzaghe. Jones followed that loss with wins over Omar Sheika and Jeff Lacy, thus possibly giving Jones the illusion that he was back and had found his old form. But when he took on Green, who still has a lot of life left in his despite his 36-years of age, Jones was exposed once again and sent packing.
The bad thing about this loss is that the fight against Hopkins, a bout which many boxing fans had been looking forward to with great interest, is now pretty much down the drain. Few people will want to watch Hopkins take on Jones now, not after seeing Jones destroyed so badly by Green. Hopkins was beaten by Jones in 1993 by a 12 round decision, and the rematch 17 years later in 2010, was supposed to give Hopkins a chance to avenge the defeat.
Now, however, that fight is up in the air. Nothing has been said from the two parties about whether they’ll still go forward with the fight, but you can imagine it probably won’t. The interest just won’t be there by boxing fans, and Hopkins likely won’t want to fight Jones after seeing him stopped so easily by Green. Speaking of Green, this might be a fight that Hopkins should consider going for.
If he can go up against Green and beat him handily, which I believe he would, then it would be another feather in the cap for Hopkins. One problem with that, though is that Green isn’t all that well known in the United States. Hopkins would be better off facing someone like Chad Dawson instead. Dawson is the best light heavyweight in the division and a fight between him and Hopkins would be very popular with boxing fans in the U.S.
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Roy Jones is washed up and finished.
just got caughtby a big punch. If mundaine went up in weght it would be no match. Even if green lost to jones at least he had a go against a good fighter. Glen Kelly took on Jones in his day, more heart than choc in my eyes.
Green is SLOWWWWWW. Jones just got caught by a big punch. Mundine would beat Green if he faces him again. Oh…and I’m an aussie
green won’t get a big fight here, because no one will risk getting floored….. they’ll dress it up like he is not known, but our over hyped primadonnas are too savy to let him anywhere near then at Green’s true weight.
His chin wasnt tested tho, green hit him on the top/side of the head
Go talk to James Toney about danny green, when they sparred a few yrs back, james toney said Green had the punching power of a Heavyweight. I think Jones did underestimate Greens power and paid for it….no luck involved. This is boxing. Green threw the punch, it landed…..no luck 
im not saying jone threw this fight but he didnt exactly look dat intrested . makes u laugh at the guy who wrote the article saying jones had best chin in boxing
Danny green has been boxing only since he was 21 , he hits harder than any usa boxers, in his prime Jones would still be TKO .
Sry mate i was referring the the ill informed jorno who published the head story,the machine is alive and well
Danny green lost to Mundine @ 78KG….the dude walks around close to 90kg. It was a real bad weight division for him. Now @ 82kg he has looked unbeatable. All Jone’s supported were saying Green was going to get KO’ed….now suddenly you saying Jones is old and finished. Seriously, grow some balls and admit Green is a contender. When he KTFO hopkins you will all be forced to choke on your words, just like you have to now. Green is THE MAN
To Roy Jones: The TRUTH will set you free.
Well, well, well, I see the trash talkers from the United States of Obesity can’t handle the fact that another of their icons took a caning from a desperate , hungry , hard as nails boxer from south of the equator. Roy Jones Jnr was and always will be one of the greatest ever but father time has caught up with him. Retire and enjoy the trappings of your success Roy. You deserve it. Danny Green, congrats!!! At least you beat a legitimate champ unlike Choco Mundine ( a legend in his own lunchbox ). Long live the Green Machine!!!
http://mixedmartialartvideos.com/roy-jones-jr-vs-danny-green-video-boxing/
thats the link to the KO if any 1 is interested
Lamby- was it an A grade fight? You have to be kidding if you think Jones or Green are on the level of Dawson, Pascal, Hopkins & the super six guys. I like Green but theres a reason Mundine schooled him- he aint an elite level fighter. Even listening to the Australian commentary it sounded as if a p4p king had arrived, come on, it was an IBO title.
Oh & im Scottish not American
@cam dude hopkins will lose to green you know nothing your american and never knew danny green and dont know how good he is
wow i cannot believe you idiots in america,there is a great big world out there you moron’s,there is always someone somewhere wanting something more than you,green won fair and square and did it in style,give the credit where it is due not say just because one of the greatest got his arse smacked it was a B grade fight,green is at his most comfortable weight and should look closely at who he fights and dont get caught up in the american crap that goes with boxing over there.
Hopkins would school both in the ring at the same time..
Jones needs to call it a day. An absolute star, legend and hall of famer. Leave it alone now..
Saying that, it must be very difficult to take that final bow, it’s been his life for the last 25 years, from dawn til dusk..
Quite sad really. I wish him well..
MS
Man, the Aussies are getting far too excited about this. It was a B level match-up between two guys past their peak fighting for the minor IBO belt. Nor Green or Jones would have a chance against the A level guys although Green may have a chance against some cruiserweights as the division is quite open just now that Adamek & Haye have left.
Anyway back to my original point. This was a show fight and nothing else. I don’t think either of these guys would even appear in the top 10 cruisers or l/heavyweights.
Oh & Hopkins would completely humiliate them both………
If green & Jones fought 5 yrs ago, green would’ve still tko’d Jones but it would’ve been later than round one.
I also agree with Ben,E & Jarrod
All you Americans ran ’round saying Jones was back after the lacy fight & Green had next to no hope against Jones Jr & now your main man got smacked over you all run around making excuses saying he’s over the hill. Hell Green won this because he’s the best right now and would drill Hopkins inside the 12 too. As for William Mackay disrespecting the retaining champ,maybe you should go write reports on junior soccer.
Alexander your a joke
Roy i agree
E i also agree
hope hopkins and green fight and green puts him on his arse aswell.
green will smoke hopkins, you talk green down like his a nobody his lost 3 fights in his career and never been knocked out, one loss was a rip off been disqualified, i hope green and hopkins go at it after what he was saying about green.
Danny Green is a powerful boxer and under rated in my opinion. He caught Roy Jones JR with a powerful shot to the temple and the rest is history! there is no way the fight was thrown GREEN just WON!
roy jr,don’t have much of a defense,left hand down ,relied on his speed and head movement to avoid getting hit, being off and on regularly and cant take a punch,and getting old,writers right should have plan picking his fight better,but maybe b-hop might lose too,lol.
You wrote that you believe Hopkins would beat Green handily. I’m still in awe that people can’t recognise how good a fighter Green actually is. A week ago everyone was writing that Jones was ‘the man’and would dispose of Green easily…Greeny made Jones look like a bum…and he WILL do the same thing to Hopkins. Green is a mongrel that doesnt even let the thought of defeat come into his mind. He’ll push Hopkins into the corner and pummel him like he did Jones.
I saw the fight, and I will stick my neck out to say, that there definitely was something underhanded going on……maybe Jones had a friend who bet big time on Green winning in the first round, who knows but what I saw was Jones throw that fight,,,,the apparent knock down punch looked like a glandsing blow that slid off Jones’s left ear, so suspect it was almost laughable…..sad sad sad
I must’ve watched the youtube clip of the knockdown a dozen times and i’m still at a loss to see the punch that did it – only one seemed to even vaguely land and that was on the top of his head towards the back. Seemed a very odd knockdown to me. Such a shame to see a once great fighter carry on too long. Roy should retire and let us all remember him at his best. One of the greatest of all time at his peak.
jones and hopkins have got about an 85yr combind age.surely jones must retire now its sad to see another once great fighter carry on to long.time to go mr jones
i agree with the above, and finally it might put calazaghe’s AMAZING victory (joke) into perspective! JONES WAS AND IS A SHOT FIGHTER THATS 5 PLUS YEARS OUT OF HIS PRIME.
hopkins can still go but no way near his best.
i believe just about anyone bar taylor in the super six and chad dawson are the cream of the super middlewieght light heaveyweight stocks.
if i was to choose a number one it would be dawson
i totally agree
The only way a Jones/Hopkins match is possible now, is if Hopkins losses his fight… But seriously, Jones needs to retire before he does himself anymore bodily harm.