Quick Jabs: Chris Arreola, Doing What He Should; The Sales-Styles-Competition Debate; Daniel Tosh, Punched; More

There almost comes a time with Roy Jones, Jr. where it doesn't make any sense to hope anymore that he'll eventually stop. It doesn't matter how badly he's put to sleep -- as he is in the video above, yet again -- he's going to keep fighting, and keep fighting, and keep fighting, until the best chance of him quitting is failing a physical, yet even then he'll probably find a forum in which to fight where the standards are lower. This could go on for far, far too long, and that's saying something because it's already gone on pretty far too long. He's apparently in those kind of financial dire straits, and after his latest KO loss on Saturday, he said he was inclined to keep fighting.

Jones, as usual, looked good in spots. But as usual, it wasn't enough. After losing nearly every round, he wobbled cruiserweight Denis Lebedev with a left hook in the 9th, then didn't -- or couldn't -- do anything about it. He arguably deserved a knockdown call in the 10th when Lebedev got held up by the ropes. But with seconds to go in the fight a series of lefts and rights, with a right hook doing most of the damage, ended Jones' night. Referee Steve Smoger should have stepped in when it was obvious Jones was out on his feet, and Lebedev even paused and looked at him in hopes he'd move in to halt matters. When he didn't, Lebedev did what boxers are trained to do, which is to keep punching until someone makes them stop. One last sickening right hook at last brought it to a finish. Too bad it probably won't be the last sickening knockout punch Jones takes.

As for some other weekend results, check out Mike Coppinger's post just below on Friday Night Fights. I'll leave it to Andrew Harrison to give us a dispatch on James DeGale-George Groves, but it was a close fight that Groves won by majority decision, outboxing Groves early and pulling out some tight rounds late in a boring bout that heated up over the final four rounds. I had DeGale winning by two rounds, but a draw might've made more sense.

Besides the subjects in the headline, we have updates on Nonito Donaire and his legal situation, updates on some fights in the works that have changed since we last visited them just a couple days ago and more. Because we never Weekend Afterthoughted it up, we'll also go back to the past weekend for a look at some of that business, too.

Source: http://queensberry-rules.com/2011-articles/may/quick-jabs-chris-arreola-doing-what-he-should-the-sales-styles-competition-debate-daniel-tosh-punched-more.html

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