It would be simple to rip ring legend Roy Jones a new orifice for his complaining that an inept cutman caused him to lose to undefeated Joe Cazlaghe.
You know, the old saw about blaming the Johnston Flood on a leaky faucet in Altoona, something like that. Even Stevie Wonder could see that from rounds 2 through 12, the wicked Welshman battered the American from pillar to post.
The cut did not come until the seventh round and, while it was a definite factor in RJJ?s devastating defeat, it was not like he had anything to offer after a first round knockdown.
To some, Jones? whine brought back memories of Antonio Tarver?s crack? ?What?s your excuse going to be tonight, Roy??
Besides, who hired cutman Dr. Richard Lucey? He?s a hometown Pensacola guy and the answer is Jones has used him before and so have other Square Ring fighters. It was a nasty gash around Jones? left eye. Is Jones saying Lucey was competent before he became incompetent?
You hired him, Roy, no one else did.
But no less a sage than Johnny Bos cautions not to criticize Jones too much. Bos said to compare and contrast Jones? effort against Jo
