By Dan Ambrose: 46-year-old former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr (59-8, 42 KOs) says he’ll be getting a world title shot against WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (38-2-1, 26 KOs.
Jones isn’t currently ranked in the top 15 by any of the sanctioning bodies in the cruiserweight division, although he has won his last four fights against little known opposition.
Jones Jr will be fighting 36-year-old Willie Williams (14-8-2, 4 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round bout next month on March 6th at the Cabarrus Arena, in Concord, North Carolina, USA. Williams has lost six out of his last nine fights.
Since losing three straight fights in losses to Danny Green, Bernard Hopkins and Denis Lebedev, Jones has beaten Hany Atiyo, Courtney Fry, Pawel Glazewski , Max Alexander and Zine Eddine Benmakhlouf.
It doesn’t make sense that Jones Jr is looking to fight Marco Huck, because he’s considered to be the best fighter in the cruiserweight division by a lot of boxing fans. It would stand to reason that if Jones Jr isn’t good enough to beat Hopkins, Green and Lebedev.
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Facing Willie Williams in order to get a title shot against Huck would seem like a backwards way of getting a title shot. Jones should at least have to face a top tier cruiserweight before he gets a world title shot against the guy considered to be the best in the division.
There are a lot of contenders that Jones will be skipping over if he gets a crack at Huck’s WBO title.
“What I am doing is staying busy because Marco Huck said he will fight me in the fall,” Jones said via ESPN.com. “I ain’t no spring chicken and I need to be properly prepared to fight Huck. If I get that fight it will probably be my last stab at (a world title) and then I’d call it a day. But I want to make sure I am ready as can be. I know Marco Huck is a totally different animal.”
The odds of Jones being able to beat Huck are virtually nonexistent in my view. Huck is a very hard puncher, and he’s already proven his worth in his 13 consecutive title defenses of his WBO belt.
The only fight where Huck was recently derailed was when he briefly moved up to the heavyweight division and just barely lost a 12 round decision to Alexander Povetkin.
The most likely outcome for Jones in a Huck fight is for Jones to wind up getting knocked out by the German fighter.
Huck has been looking for a big money fight against the Klitschko brothers for ages, but thus far he’s gotten nowhere in his attempts to get one of them in the ring.
It would be disappointing that Huck would be willing to face the 46-year-old Jones, because the American fighter is so far over the hill. However, a fight between Jones and Huck will likely be a huge bout in Germany, because a lot of German fans would like this fight.
It’s sad that this is a fight that Huck would be interested in, and it’s sadder that a lot of top cruiserweight contenders could get passed over by Jones getting a title shot instead of one of them.
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