{"id":840972,"date":"2026-08-03T02:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840972\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:31:21","slug":"roy-jones-jr-reacts-to-errol-spence-jr-retiring-after-backing-him-to-beat-tim-tszyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840972\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr reacts to Errol Spence Jr retiring after backing him to beat Tim Tszyu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> suspects that Errol Spence Jr<\/a> came away with the results he was searching for, despite losing a unanimous decision to Tim Tszyu last weekend.<\/p>\n

The two former world champions squared off at Sydney\u2019s Afterpay Arena, where Spence was returning from a three-year layoff following his ninth-round stoppage defeat to Terence Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time, though, the former welterweight ruler was fighting at 160lbs after requesting a jump from their originally-agreed catchweight of 158lbs.<\/p>\n

But while this allowance should have worked to his advantage it was ultimately Tszyu, a former super-welterweight champion, who seemed physically and athletically superior on the night.<\/p>\n

This, of course, was largely due to Spence\u2019s inactivity and age, with the 36-year-old seemingly coming to terms with retirement<\/a> during his post-fight interview.<\/p>\n

There was also a hint of satisfaction expressed by the American, who was perhaps focusing more on his performance than the actual result.<\/p>\n

He did, after all, manage to hear the final bell without incurring any significant injuries, which, given this stage in his life, could be seen as an achievement in itself.<\/p>\n

Speaking on ALL THE SMOKE FIGHT<\/a>, pound-for-pound legend Jones \u2013 who had favoured Spence to win \u2013 suspects this to be the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cErrol is who Errol wants to be; Errol did it like Errol wanted to do it. Errol wanted to prove that he can go back and do exactly what he\u2019s been doing his whole career \u2013 taking stuff from people in their hometown.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, if he didn\u2019t win it, he still went out on his feet. He had a lot of things he wanted to prove to himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t get the result [against Tszyu] that we all thought he wanted to get, but he got the results that he wanted \u2013 to say: \u2018Now, I can rest in peace\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his own post-fight interviews, Tszyu expressed an interest in remaining at middleweight and even called out Erislandy Lara, the division\u2019s WBA champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr suspects that Errol Spence Jr came away with the results he was searching for, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-840972","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\/840972","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=840972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}