08/16/2025
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Roy Jones Jr says he couldβve got back at Floyd Mayweather Jr by posting a video of himself reading a bookβ¦ after Floyd posted them clips of Roy getting knocked out.
Roy told The Ring: "It was low class for him to post clips of me losing, If I wanted to be messing with him, I could have done the same thing he did and got a book to start reading. Then what is he going to say? He did it because I said I would bet my life that Floyd would not beat a prime Sugar Ray Leonard.
"I'm sorry, it's just the fact, and I am entitled to my own opinion. If you are going to get mad about it, come see me.
You think you can whoop me still? I never said no. Let's go. I fight. I don't do all that cherry picking. If you want to make it beef, come on."
"What top black fighter did Floyd ever face and beat handily in their prime? Not one," Jones said. "He struggled with an old Oscar De La Hoya. Mayweather's dad said he lost that fight. Then they say Floyd beat so many world champions. Most were not world champions at the time, they were ex-world champions.
"Who was his Thomas Hearns or Marvin Hagler or James Toney or Bernard
Hopkins? Where is the guy who was on his level? Canelo Alvarez was young, and he fought Manny Pacquiao after he was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez. He didn't fight Terence Crawford.
"Pacquiao fought everyone who was at his level. In my humble opinion, it's almost safe to say that Pacquiao had a better career than Mayweather had. He didn't make the money Mayweather made, but he fought the fights that were supposed to be fought, when it was time to fight them. He didn't wait around.
"That's what king of the hill fighters do.
Now, I'm not saying Mayweather was wrong because he made more money than everyone ever did. That's cool. But stay over there on that side. Don't come over here on this side talking crazy because you didn't do it on this side.
When you come on this side, it's going to be a little bit more different.
"We were in Dubai a few years ago and Mayweather said, 'I chose currency over legacy, and then he talks about how Ali isn't the greatest of all time. You lost me right there. Now I look at you differently.
How are you going to tell me that Ali isn't the GOAT? Especially when you didn't play king of the hill and dominate like he did.
"You made more money than anyone else, and that's what you think makes you the GOAT in boxing? No it does not. Face the facts brother."