Editor's Note: ESPN2 Friday Night Fights boxing guru Max Kellerman always has a lot to say, so now we get to read his thoughts on Monday mornings after big fight weekends.

Now that's what I call dominance.á In becoming the only official undisputed champion in boxing, Roy Jones Jr. thoroughly whipped the credible former middleweight and now former light heavyweight champion Reggie Johnson.á All three judges had it 12 rounds to none for Jones, who knocked Johnson down twice and has now seemingly pitched more career shutouts than Walter Johnson.á

	Max Kellerman was very impressed with the way Roy Jones Jr. dominated Reggie Johnson.

Jones has obviously been the best fighter in boxing by an incredibly wide margin, for a very long time now.á In his entire career, only one fighter was ever truly competitive with him for more than a few rounds.á The capable Montell Griffin, fresh off two upset wins over James Toney, took his undefeated record and a solid gameplan into the ring against an overconfident and underprepared Jones in 1997.á

Through eight rounds, the fight was even on my card, until in the ninth when Jones grew impatient and floored Griffin.á When Jones followed up with a flurry while Griffin was still on the canvas, the fight was stopped and Griffin was awarded a disqualification victory.á The fact that Jones only grazed Griffin while Griffin was down, and that Griffin clearly feigned injury as a result of the graze, should have weighed against the DQ.á At any rate, just in case the official outcome left any doubt as to who was the better fighter, Jones knocked Griffin out in the first round of their rematch four months months later.

So what do we know about Roy Jones?á We know that Montell Griffin once won four rounds from him.á We know that no one else has ever been in the position during a fight with Jones where they could realistically think that they had a chance to win.á Not James Toney, not Bernard Hopkins, not anybody.

Certainly not Reggie Johnson, who quickly discovered once the opening bell rang that Roy Jones Jr. is in a league by himself.á Since his win over Toney in 1994, Roy Jones has occupied the same niche in the sport that Pernell Whitaker did between 1989 and 1994, that Mike Tyson did in 1987 and 1988, that Marvin Hagler did between '83 and '87, that Salvador Sanchez did in '82, that Sugar Ray Leonard did between 1980 and 1982, and that Roberto Duran did between '76 and '80.á He is the best in the business.

The difference with Jones is that our expectations of him are higher than they were for Whitaker, Hagler, Sanchez, Leonard or Duran.á Expectations were as high as could be for Tyson, but three years into his title reign, Iron Mike was upset by Buster Douglas.á It has been more than six years since Roy Jones won his first title at middleweight.á Jones is simply more talented than Whitaker, Tyson, Hagler, Sanchez, Leonard or Duran.á In fact, let's face it, in terms of pure physical talent, in the history of boxing, the discussion boils down to Sugar Ray Robinson and Roy Jones Jr.

Jones is so talented that we do not know whether he's even tough.á We don't know how well he can take a punch.á We don't know how he would respond to a grueling fight.á Not until Jones is past his prime will the very best of the rest be able to even compete with him.á How Roy responds when he is eventually pushed to the brink will determine whether or not he rates alongside Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Pernell Whitaker as one of the four greatest fighters of the last 50 years.

Yet for some inexplicable reason, there are those in boxing (though their ranks are diminishing) who insist on absurd proposition that Oscar De La Hoya should somehow be ranked ahead of Jones in a pound-for-pound sense.á We certainly know that De La Hoya has a great heart and a will to win, we know that Oscar handles adversity well.á We know these things because De La Hoya has had to answer questions about his character in the ring.á Ike Quartey asked him, as did Oba Carr, John-John Molina, and Miguel Angel Gonzalez.á

Oba Carr is not as accomplished a fighter as Reggie Johnson.á Quartey is no better than Bernard Hopkins.á Pernell Whitaker gave De La Hoya a boxing lesson at a time when Whitaker was half the fighter he had been in his prime as a lightweight.á Jones played with Toney at the height of Toney's career.á The bottom line is that Jones is inspiring more than a few people in boxing to say that he is among the very best they have ever seen.á He certainly inspires me to say it.á I have never heard even the most ardent De La Hoya supporter make a similar claim about Oscar.

Why is the Ray Robinson-Roy Jones comparison such a natural?á They both fought at middleweight, they both combined great speed with devastating punching power, but most importantly, they both held the same position in boxing: head and shoulders above everyone else.á They both inspired contemporary audiences to imagine that they might possibly be watchingá the greatest fighter, pound-for-pound, in the history of boxing.á Sugar Ray Robinson went on to prove that he was indeed the greatest ever.á Roy Jones is the best candidate yet to perhaps one day challenge Robinson's all time pound-for-pound supremacy.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is really good, as is Mark Johnson.á The winner of Trinidad-De La Hoya will be great, and the loser might be too.á But none of us are sitting around even dreaming that any of these guys are going to one day challenge Mr. Walker Smith's position in the pantheon of greats.

Appreciate him for what he is, boxing fans, because you may never see another talent like the incredible Roy Jones Jr. in your lifetime.