{"id":373748,"date":"2025-12-26T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373748\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:16:10","slug":"roy-jones-jr-names-the-best-fighter-in-boxing-today-without-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373748\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr names the best fighter in boxing today: “Without a question”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr<\/a> made no hesitation when naming the current pound-for-pound standout in the world of boxing, believing one fighter to be comfortably clear of the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of years, the general consensus in the sport has been that the pound-for-pound number one is either Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue or Oleksandr Usyk, after each became multi-divisional four-belt undisputed champions.<\/p>\n

However, last week \u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford announced his retirement from boxing<\/a>, hanging up the gloves after a legendary victory over Canelo Alvarez that he would surely struggle to top.<\/p>\n

As a result, most fans are left to pick between the reigning super-bantamweight world champion, Inoue, and unified heavyweight ruler, Usyk.<\/p>\n

Although, in an interview with K.O. Artist Sports<\/a>, Jones Jr had no difficulty in choosing between the two as he confidently declared Usyk as the best fighter in boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, if Terence is retired, that will be Usyk, without a question.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to see why Jones thinks that, as Usyk became just the third fighter in boxing history to win a world title at both cruiserweight and heavyweight before then becoming the first undisputed heavyweight champion since the turn of the millennium when he defeated Tyson Fury last year.<\/p>\n

Now, the Ukrainian has vacated his WBO world title, after becoming a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion by defeating Daniel Dubois in July.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old southpaw is expected to return to action in mid 2026 and take on Deontay Wilder, with fans reassured that he still has a few years left in the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr made no hesitation when naming the current pound-for-pound standout in the world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-373748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373748","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=373748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}