{"id":313885,"date":"2025-08-03T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313885\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:52:12","slug":"floyd-mayweather-ducked-one-rival-during-his-career-claims-roy-jones-jr-the-only-person-that-really-had-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313885\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather ducked one rival during his career, claims Roy Jones Jr&#8230; &#8216;The only person that really had a chance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Floyd Mayweather chose not to face one boxing legend, according to Roy Jones Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his career, \u2018Money\u2019 proved himself to be one of the most gifted practitioners of \u2018the sweet science\u2019 to have ever walked the face of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/floyd-mayweather-annihilated-one-of-the-biggest-punchers-in-boxing-with-a-massive-right-hand-in-2003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayweather destroyed Philip N\u2019dou with a massive shot<\/a> and knocked out the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/ricky-hatton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricky Hatton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the eyes of his countryman, he went out of his way to steer clear of a very quick fighter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheesh: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/throwbacks\/floyd-mayweather-slammed-sugar-ray-leonard-for-avoiding-one-fighter-thats-who-he-was-ducking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floyd Mayweather slammed Sugar Ray Leonard for avoiding one fighter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-74083524-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Floyd Mayweather celebrates defeating Oscar De La Hoya\" class=\"wp-image-24667\" \/>Photo by Al Bello\/Getty ImagesRoy Jones Jr. says Floyd Mayweather avoided Amir Khan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/roy-jones-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roy Jones Jr.<\/a> believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/floyd-mayweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> made the call to duck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/amir-khan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amir Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Captain Hook\u2019 claims the Brit would\u2019ve caused the slick boxer major problems.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Ring Champs with Ak and Barak, he said: \u201cHey, in my opinion, the only person that really had a chance in his weight class back then was Amir Khan, he wouldn\u2019t touch Amir Khan at that time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmir had two good feet. He wouldn\u2019t fight Amir Khan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy Jones Jr. knocks out Floyd Mayweather, according to Hall of Famer<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Jones Jr. and Mayweather are locked in a heated back-and-forth.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, hype has built for a potential showdown between the pair.<\/p>\n<p>However, one legend doesn\u2019t think it would be competitive.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/roy-jones-jr-knocks-out-floyd-mayweather-according-to-one-of-the-greatest-fighters-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">icon said prime Jones Jr. knocks Mayweather out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather chose not to face one boxing legend, according to Roy Jones Jr. In his career, \u2018Money\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[25853,1935,34978,106858,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-313885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-amir-khan","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-floyd-mayweather","11":"tag-roy-jones-jr","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963516168277115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313885","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=313885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}