Roy Jones Jr and Floyd Mayweather have been involved in a bitter rivalry in recent weeks.
The two boxing legends haven’t taken too kindly to one another and their feud shows no signs of slowing down, with Jones even challenging Mayweather to a fight in order to settle their differences.
Jones has now fired the latest shot his rival, telling Plejmo that he has already beaten a better version of Mayweather during his career – James Toney.
“I’ve already solved the Mayweather puzzle. James Toney was a better version of the Mayweather story because Toney was knocking people out.
“Toney was not ducking nobody, fighting everybody, not ducking and dodging nothing, and I solved it so. And he was better than Floyd at the shoulder roll.
“He was knocking people out behind it, pretty much everybody he faced out, so what I gotta do again? I’ve already solved it. You want me to do it again and show y’all again.
“I’ll show y’all again how to do it. It’s not a mystery [how to beat Floyd]. I’ve been and done it and James is far better than he is. James did everything better.”
Jones and Toney met back in November 1994, with both fighters heading into the fight with undefeated records, Jones at 26-0 and Toney at 44-0-2. Toney was the reigning IBF super-middleweight champion, with Jones stepping up a division looking to become a two-weight world champion having previously reigned at 160lbs.
Many onlookers felt it would be an extremely competitive affair, but Jones proved it to be anything but, winning by unanimous decision with scores of 119-108, 118-109 and 117-110, perhaps showing why he would be so confident if a battle with Mayweather was to indeed happen.
