{"id":278952,"date":"2025-11-12T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:46:09","slug":"roy-jones-jr-performs-major-u-turn-on-fighting-jake-paul-after-gervonta-davis-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278952\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr Performs Major U Turn On Fighting Jake Paul After Gervonta Davis Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/roy-jones-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Jones Jr<\/a> appears to have made his final decision on a potential bout with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/jake-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old from Florida had put himself forward for a clash with the YouTuber-turned-boxer, who is currently on the hunt for a new opponent ahead of his return to the ring next month.<\/p>\n<p>Paul had been set to face WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis in Miami this Friday before the fight was scrapped after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46785106\/gervonta-davis-facing-new-civil-suit-domestic-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Tank\u2019 found himself at the centre of a civil lawsuit regarding domestic allegations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boxing legend Jones was last in action back in April of 2023 when he suffered a majority decision defeat to former MMA star Anthony \u2018Showtime\u2019 Pettis at the conclusion of their eight round bout in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talksportbet.com\/en-gb\/casino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talkSPORT BET<\/a>, Jones revealed that he is \u2018no longer open\u2019 to sharing the ring with Paul, as he claims he isn\u2019t interested in \u2018chasing\u2019 the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want that smoke. I\u2019m not really open to it anymore. I used to be. I\u2019m not open to it anymore. I don\u2019t chase people, and I don\u2019t chase money. They want you to keep chasing, or chasing money, I\u2019m not doing that, I\u2019m not that guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd once I see you tell me no once, just like when I was fighting, if you tell me no twice, I\u2019m good. You don\u2019t want to fight? Okay, cool, I\u2019m good, I\u2019m through with it. I\u2019m not gonna beg you to fight. That\u2019s not who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst he has officially ruled out a potential clash with Paul, Jones has left the door open for a return to the ring in the future, despite him approaching his 57th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>As for Paul, the 28-year-old from Phoenix has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/ex-heavy-champ-may-fight-paul-in-december\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked with fights against the likes of Anthony Joshua, Andre Ward and Nate Diaz.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr appears to have made his final decision on a potential bout with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}