Roy Jones vs. Felix Trinidad: Live Blog : Round By Round
January 19th, 2008 . by Dell. 
Tonight is the night, which old bastard has the most left in the tank? The general consensus among fans is that Felix Trinidad will win this fight by K.O. Both fighters are predicting they will knock their opponent out in under 4 rounds.
Sportaphile is throwing caution into the wind, and thinks Roy Jones will emerge victorious. Keep in mind, Felix Trinidad hasnt beaten ANY world class fighters since he knocked out Fernando Vargas in 2000. The only person of note Tito has beaten since then is Ricardo Mayorga, who has the boxing skills of a 5th grader. (I love Ricardo Mayorga, but its true).
The fight is over, CLICK HERE to see the video.
Update 8:54pm - Roy Jones is walking to the ring as we speak. he’s wearing a crown
Update 8:55pm Tito is entering the ring now… he looks very confident
Update 8:56pm They’re doing both the U.S. and Puerto Rican nat’l anthems now.
Everytime I see the Puerto Rican flag I think of Kramer stomping it on Seinfeld… or did he set it on fire?
Update 9:05pm Michael Buffer is finishing up the ring introductions.. Round 1 will be underway in just a second…
Round 1
Tito comes out calm but confident, firing off two power shots. Jones looks ver tentative. Roy Jones’ speed and defense are definitely on display, Tito cant find an opening to land any good shots. The problem is Roy isnt throwing many shots of his own. Tito lands one or two shots that could have been low. Roy is pot shotting every now and then…
Tito’s round. (slightly)
Round 2
Trinidad is the busier fighter at the moment… working the body. Possibly trying to slow Jones down over the long haul. It looks like Roy is biding him time.. Trinidad is very busy but it doesnt look like its phasing jones. Just as the round ends Jones comes alive with a flurry
Trinidads Round…
Round 3
Roy is definitely playing a dangerous game, choosing to counterpunch and rely on his defense instead of going in offensively. Trinidad is trying to pound roy and wear him down. Roy is taunting tito… laying in the corner inviting him in to throw more punches…. It’s entertaining.. but it’s not winning him any points.
Trinidads round..
Round 4
Roy is definitely more active in this round… mixing it up more than he has in the previous three. Trinidad hasn’t changed his game since the start. Roy is finally establishing a jab, and showing signs of life.
**I put an update for round 5 here, I’m not sure what happened to it when I pressed submit*… I gave the round to jones though
my site is getting slammed with traffic right now, making it hard to update, bear with me
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Round 6
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Jones’ power and speed is becoming a factor.. he’s having his way with tito but not hurting him… Within the last one minute of the round Tito comes on.. landing a big left hook. Jones doesnt look hurt but he’s definitely respecting his opponent now.
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Round 7
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Jones drops trinidad with a hard shot!!! Trinidad gets up at the count of 7… Jones is stalking him pouring it on… he’s completely letting it hang out…Tito is hanging on.. .blocking shots… It looks like jones is letting him off the hook (aka he’s tired..) Tito has his legs back under him now…. A huge missed opportunity for roy
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Round 8
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Trinidad has recovered like a true veteran.. he’s patient.. collected…and back to his form in round 6. He’s not very quick but he’s throwing hard body shots… Roy’s hand speed is amazing. he isnt punching often.. but when he does he’s doing great damage… Trinidad isnt fast enough to do much with him. Roy is landing some flashy shots…. This was a hard round to score….
Round 9
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Not much happens during the first minute of the round… Roy comes alive with a nice combo which backs tito up… Tito comes back and starts banging away to the body… Roy covers up… Both men are throwing but not doing alot of damage… They’re taking turns saving energy…overall, Roy landed the more significant punches..He’s edging tito out.. Titos corner is telling him he has to step it up.
Harold Lederman has it 86-84 Roy Jones leading…
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Round 10
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This round has been relatively slow compared to the previous… Tito is throwing HARD shots, but they arent doing much due to Jones’ defense… Roy is countering and generally landing whatever he wants. It seems as if Tito cant bully the bigger faster fighter…. .DOWN GOES TITO AGAIN… he didnt even see the punch coming.. Roy is so much quicker than him. It was a flash knockdown
Tito gets up at the count of 6…
Round 11
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This is the closest roy jones has looke to “the old roy jones” in a very long time. He looks 100% confident in the ring… This round has been tame. The guys are both still throwing but not landing anything particularly damaging…. Tito’s corner says “I think we’re down” between rounds.
understatement of the year
Even round.
Round 12
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Trinidad literally can’t find it within himself to get past roy’s defense and speed to land anything to hurt his opponent. That’s basically the story of the fight. This is just like the Trinidad vs. Wright fight…except Roy is so much more enjoyable watch than Winky. Roy is pretty much having his way with Trinidad… he isnt going to knock him out… but he’s landing at will.
Fight over…. Roy should win on the cards by a landslide.
Roy Wins by unanimous decision on the scorecards and calls out Joe Calzaghe. He says he’ll fight Calzaghe in Wales..
Once again, I apoligize for this website going down at the start of this fight. I didnt anticipate that much traffic….
Not interested enough to buy the fight, but find myself searching for blogs to let me know how its going… Rooting for Roy!
I’m like e_hoov, except rooting for tito…
I don’t blame you guys, the promoters should have put this on HBO instead of PPV….
We don’t get a lot of big fights in chicago and there was a big fight with andrew golota vs. lamon brewster here at the united center. It wasn’t cheap and it was packed full of polish people rooting for golota and the fight literally lasted 53 seconds with golota getting knocked down 3 times and finally (after 53 seconds and the third knock down) the ref waving it off. I thought there was going to be a riot. Talk about pathetic…
Jeff b:
Hahah I totally remember that fight! what a joke. Golota can be a real headcase sometimes.
LOL, thats funny.
The announcers for this fight were talking about how Golata is going to get another title shot because he just won.
I feel sorry for the fans…that wont be pretty
Yeah I don’t quite understand how he can keep getting title shots…he’s had so many absurd loses. Brewster and Tyson both basically just yelled “Boo” and the guy feel ass backwards out of the ring.
ESPN has is 3-3 after 6 for whatever thats worth
since the knockdown gave jones round 7 10-8, ESPN has is 67-65, still waiting on round 8 results
ESPN gave Jone Rd 8 and have it 77-74 for Roy
ESPN gives rd 9 to Roy, has him up 87-83
ESPN gives rd 10 to Roy 10-8, has him up 97-91. If true, he can coast from here
ESPN gives Rd 11 to Roy, has him up 107-100
Roy looked so great. .. Wait til you see the replay e_hoov… this is the closest he has ever looked to his old form.
Me an dmy girl sat next to roy on a plane back from texas over thanksgiving, I also take care of a yacht which is only a few boats down from roys. He has always been friendly to me…
Thanks for the updates all!!! Now I wish I would have bought the fight (I mean, I’m still up at 1 am anyways) and Roy did win. I used to love to watch him fight back in the day, now I’d kind of like to seem him retire once again.
thanks for the round by round…
Boxers can never retire on top… oh well, I’ll pay next time…
hey, thanks for the posting. I really enjoyed your commentary. Will save this site
for the future.
thanks for the compliment!!
The live blogs are stressful, but fun…
Yay Chuck! Great reporting!
Cool idea
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