You don't believe a word of what you just posted (like many bestselling "self help" authors and televised political commentators).
Guys like Joe Rein and Burt Bienstock witnessed both Ray and Roy at their very best, then in decline which exposed Roy's chin that Ray NEVER lost, and stated in no uncertain terms that SRR was the very best they ever saw in action. I'll defer to these two gentlemen who saw them both. Robby's last truly great performance was his 12 round KO in Olson I, something nobody else would come close to doing until Archie Moore (boxing's hardest puncher in the LHW
AND HW divisions at that time) utterly destroyed Bobo in three rounds to defend the LHW Title, taking away Olson's chin in the process.
Mike McCallum would tell you that rating RJJ's hook over Robby's hook is sheer lunacy. The Bodysnatcher extensively studied Robby's footage during his developmental years, then went 12 rounds with RJJ in his penultimate bout.
Robby's "perfect" hook destroyed Gene Fullmer in a completely unique way, and his two filmed KO's of Olson demonstrate that one did not attempt hooking with SRR.
Through no fault of his own, Roy never proved what he could do over the Championship Distance. After Graziano at age 30, Robby was 132-2-2. If the end of his peak was indeed Olson I as Joe Rein told me, then he was 115-1-2 at that stage. (His next bout the following month was over Bobby D y k e s, in a televised match complete on YouTube, where he ravages D y k e s [
@Vscope , this is stupid. Bobby D y k e s is a historical boxer of consequence. This is literally cancel culture at its most egregious] on the inside and with surgically thudding rights to the body.)
Robby won seven times over the Championship Distance. Tommy Bell, Charley Fusari (filmed in live sound), Bernard Docusen, Robert Villemain, Bobo Olson [on television, preserved on YouTube] (HOF), Kid Gavilan (HOF) and Carmen Basilio [filmed] (HOF) were the opponents he defeated over 15 rounds. Additionally, he stopped LaMotta (HOF) over 13 rounds in the well filmed "Valentine's Day Massacre."
Peak for peak, Roy didn't have a fraction of Ray's experience. Going for Robby's body merely brought an expression of boredom to his face. The guy was known to drop opponents in the opening round with left jabs to the solar plexus.
Roy has been taken out five times, once in a single round. Four of those came before the age Robby retired at. Robby's only stoppage loss in 201 matches was in his LHW challenge of Maxim in round 13 of a bout he had clinched on the scorecards, but he failed to pace himself according to the heat and humidity of an outdoor venue which nearly caused that bout to be postponed. If it had been postponed until that heat wave was over, there's no question that Ray would've taken Maxim's LHW Title. He did take enough out of Joey though that Maxim lost his title to Archie Moore six months later. (Robby would have needed to stay away from Moore's bombs to have a chance at defending the LHW crown, but as a defending champion, Ray would have at least gotten the 70% to 30% payoff split he later demanded for challenging Archie. However, nobody would have blamed Ray for retiring after beating Maxim as he temporarily did after being forced to concede that challenge.)
