20 years ago, Roy Jones Jr. beat John Ruiz.

[VG_Addict]

20 years ago, Roy Jones Jr. beat John Ruiz for the WBA Heavyweight title, making history as the first fighter in a century to win titles from MW to HW, and the first fighter ever to start at JMW, and win a HW title.

How do you rate this win? Personally, while Roy deserves credit for making history, there's a reason he picked Ruiz instead of Lewis.

[Willie Pep 229]

How do I rate the win? As everything that is wrong with scantioning body titles.

Jones was never HW Champion of the world.

How do I rate the win: meaningless except to the people who made money off it, to them it was important.

[kara]

Biggest mistake was NOT retiring after this.

[ShoulderRoll]

Ruiz ****** but was still a heavyweight trinket holder. That was an impressive performance by Roy, probably his last great outing.

[4truth]

Pretty good win and to be honest I thought Ruiz would beat him. Obviously Roy wasn’t ever going to beat Lewis or some of the other top HW fighters but he beat Ruiz and that was not nothing

[QueensburyRules]

20 years ago, Roy Jones Jr. beat John Ruiz for the WBA Heavyweight title, making history as the first fighter in a century to win titles from MW to HW, and the first fighter ever to start at JMW, and win a HW title.

How do you rate this win? Personally, while Roy deserves credit for making history, there's a reason he picked Ruiz instead of Lewis.

- - Ruiz was the lesser trinket DKing fighter. Lewie sold that WBA to DKing to avoid his mandatory, Ruiz.

Roy dangled his other worldly magnificence with a favorable contract to King, but never honored it, so the contract expired without King getting to promote his next fight.

[Slugfester]

The Ruiz I remember was no more than a rugged pedestrian contender with a small heavyweight punch who held constantly and was the mere regent of a so-called strap. The chance to cherry pick a heavyweight belt and make some psuedo-history and a wad of mammon, was just what Jones was looking for. He found it, and did much better than some good and great heavyweights before him. Ruiz hardly landed a clinch or a punch all night.