{"id":257690,"date":"2025-07-12T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257690\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:41:13","slug":"roy-jones-jr-needed-just-3-words-when-asked-if-floyd-mayweather-really-is-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257690\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr Needed Just 3 Words When Asked If Floyd Mayweather Really Is &#8216;The Best Ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Jones Jr and Floyd Mayweather have been embroiled in a bitter feud in recent days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/mayweather-called-out-by-hall-of-famer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The two boxing legends have each taken shots at the other<\/a>, seemingly beginning when Jones gave his opinion on how Mayweather may have fared against iconic fighters from the past.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather didn\u2019t appear to take too kindly to what his countryman suggested, <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3354399\/floyd-mayweather-feud-roy-jones-jr-ivideo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as he took to social media to share a video of him watching Jones suffer a knockout defeat late in his career.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GIeINrcdXQo?feature=shared\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking about the the feud with Seconds Out<\/a>, and initially needed just three words when asked if Mayweather\u2019s claim about being \u2018The Best Ever\u2019 is accurate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt making money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones \u2013 who has criticised Mayweather in the past for claiming he is better than Muhammad Ali \u2013 then went in-depth on this new-found rivalry with Mayweather, challenging his rival to do something about it if he has a problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to fight, come on. You don\u2019t have to troll me, come see me. That\u2019s who I am. I don\u2019t do talk well. I ain\u2019t heard nothing yet but they know where I\u2019m at and they know where to find me. It ain\u2019t going to be no exhibition, I want it real. What we going to play for? We ain\u2019t playing. I ain\u2019t anyway. I can have my own opinion, if you got a problem with my opinion I\u2019ll be willing to fight about it. If you want to do something about it, come on. Inside the ring, outside the ring, we can do it however you want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s likely that Mayweather will soon respond to the latest challenge by Jones, with their feud showing no signs of slowing down. A meeting in the ring, however, is unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr and Floyd Mayweather have been embroiled in a bitter feud in recent days. The two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837722875094269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}