Roy Jones Jr has named his one condition for a potential clash with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The 56-year-old from Pensacola, Florida has not fought as a professional since he was beaten via majority decision by MMA star Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis in April of 2023.
At the height of his professional career, Jones was arguably the best fighter on the planet. He won world titles across four weight classes throughout the course of his tenure, with the bulk of his success coming during the nineties.
With rumours circulating that the 56-year-old is seriously considering a return to the ring, it is now being reported that this could actually come against fellow countryman and former pound-for-pound star Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Mayweather recently posted a video of him watching all the times Jones was knocked out in the ring, this has sparked a feud between the pair.
In an interview with Seconds Out, Jones welcomed a potential clash with Mayweather, but set just one condition to allow a fight between the pair to happen – it must count towards their professional records.
“If you want to fight, come on. I mean I ain’t tripping, you ain’t gotta troll me come see me, that’s who I am I don’t do talk well you know. I ain’t heard nothing yet but they know where I’m at and they know how to find me.
Ain’t gonna be no exhibition, I want it real, ain’t no sense of being an exhibition, what we gonna play for? We both fight for real, what we playing for? We make it real, exhibition for people playing, we ain’t playing, I ain’t anyway. I don’t bother nobody, I’m authorised.
I can have my own opinion, if you gotta problem with my opinion then anything I say I’ll be willing to fight about, that’s why I don’t fuss much because if I say it, I mean it, and if you wanna do something about it come on, inside the ring, outside the ring I don’t care, however you wanna do it.”
Mayweather drew the curtain on his pro career back in 2017, but has made a number of returns to the ring in exhibition contests, facing the likes of Tenshin Nasukawa, Aaron Chalmers and Logan Paul.
