Roy Jones Jr. was a domineering fighter for many years. Boxers tend to fall into two categories, boxers and punchers. That is, men who rely on movement and angles or those that command due to pure power. Each has its own degrees of technical skill, but every so often you get boxers who display the best of both facets, the boxer-puncher. Roy Jones was one such fighter, able to move with slickness and avoid punches, find incredibly awkward ways to attack/counterattack, but at the same time commanded knockout punching power if he needed it. It is the kind of rare, loose style, that you just cannot teach, that purely comes from a fighters own personality and finely developed instincts.

But, every fighter has his time. With some exceptions, the average lifespan of a boxer's career peak is usually ten years, between the early twenties to the early thirties. There may be nothing sadder in the sports world than a boxer who pushes on past his prime and becomes sad shadow of their former prowess. Tyson. Duran. Ali. Jones is currently retired and making hints at a possible comeback. His retirement came after he suffered two devastating knockouts at the hands (no pun intended) of Antonio Tarver and Glenn Johnson. In those fights, Jones, the former untouchable in three weight classes (middleweight, super middle weight, and light heavyweight), received sound beatings and was knocked cold, frighteningly so.

When a slippery fighter loses that slipperiness, they usually don't get it back. A puncher can keep his power, but when the speed and the reflexes wane, they do not come back. That is why I hope. I pray. I beg him to stay out of the ring. For his own good. For the good of boxing. To me, those knockouts were fates way of saying, "IT IS OVER ROY."

That said, this DVD looks back at the Roy Jones who rose to fame between 1993 and 2000. Highlights are from the following fights: 1993- Jones Vs. Wolfe, Jones Vs. Hopkins, Jones Vs. Malinga, 1994- Jones Vs. Toney, 1995- Jones Vs. Byrd, 1996- Jones Vs. Lucas, Jones Vs. McCallum,1998- Jones Vs. Hill, Jones Vs. DeValle, Jones Vs. Grant, 1999- Jones Vs. Johnson, and from 2000- Jones Vs. Telesco and Jones Vs. Hill.

Fight fans will note that Jones two most notorious fights with Montell Griffin (the first resulting in a Jones DQ for hitting while Griffin was down, the rematch resulting in Jones knocking Griffin out in Round One) are nowhere to be found. Probably the most notable fight on this DVD is the Jones Vs. Toney fight, where Roy really showed his best. A great bit occurs when Jones leans in, taunting Toney, with his arms down to his waist and extended out, offering no protection. Toney apes the same stance, as if to make fun of Roy, Roy does the stance again, only this time he leaps in with a left hook that Toney doesn't see coming. It is one of those near-incomprehensible, unorthodox moves Roy could do that baffles and amazes. While, of course, most of the fights are dominating spectacles (Roy always chose his opponents wisely), including some very one-sided fights like Jones Vs. Lucas and Jones Vs. Hill (2000) where his opponents were very outclassed, Jones does score points for showing stuff like his first knock down, which occurred in the fight with DeValle.

The DVD: Razor Digital

Picture: Full-screen, Standard. This is tv fare, so one cannot expect much. Technically the image suffers from some tv to DVD and compression issues, the ususal stuff like macro blocking and color bleeding. Legalities prevent them from wanting to show off the original logos of the fight broadcasters (Roy was mainly an HBO fighter throughout his career) so there is quite a bit of optical blurring of marquees and the round/timescore graphics are obscured by a generic looking logo that says "Square Ring Inc."

Sound: Dolby Stereo. Again, legal issues keep them from using the original broadcast commentary. You'll often see this on ESPN Classics boxing matches too. So, instead all of the fights have generic announcers talking over the fights in an obvious pre-scripted manner. There is also some added crowd foley of the audiences cheering and such, as well as enhanced action sound fx for the slow motion replays, so Roy's punches sound like he's an anime hero.

Extras: Roy Jones bio stats and fight record.— "I Smoke, I Drank" rap video, by whom, I have no idea.

Conclusion: Lasting under an hour with no real extras to speak of, contentwise, the disc doesn't offer up much to warrant an purchase. If they would have thrown in a short doc about Roy or a showcase of Roy giving a glimpse of his training, maybe it could have been be an okay buy. But, as an abbreviated clip package with some unavoidable technical stumbles (the artificial ring commentary and optical censoring), at the most, it makes for an okay rental.