{"id":11679,"date":"2025-07-21T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:22:07","slug":"former-heavyweight-champion-shannon-briggs-has-no-doubt-who-wins-floyd-mayweather-vs-roy-jones-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11679\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Heavyweight Champion Shannon Briggs Has No Doubt Who Wins Floyd Mayweather vs Roy Jones Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tension between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/roy-jones-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Jones Jr<\/a> continues to heat up.<\/p>\n<p>The retired American legends have been going back and forth on social media in recent weeks, beginning with Jones backing Sugar Ray Leonard in a fantasy fight against Floyd, and Floyd responding sneakily by posting a video of himself watching all of Jones\u2019 knockout defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has not fought since April of 2023 when he suffered a majority decision defeat to MMA legend Anthony \u2018Showtime\u2019 Pettis. The 56-year-old from Pensacola has left the door open for a return to the ring since he was beaten by Pettis, although this has yet to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>As for Mayweather, the five-division world champion drew the curtain on his career back in 2017, just a short while after he got the better of Conor McGregor in their monumental crossover clash in Las Vegas, extending his unblemished record to 50-0 in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9QMMxC749PE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking on a social media livestream<\/a>, former WBO world heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/shannon-briggs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon Briggs<\/a> shared his thoughts on a potential match-up between Jones and Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho wins Mayweather vs Roy Jones? Roy Jones, Roy Jones. You know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the likely scenario would see the two men heading towards an exhibition contest if it was to indeed happen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/roy-jones-jr-agrees-to-mayweather-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jones has already spoken out about this situation and claimed he wants to face Mayweather in a sanctioned bout.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayweather has appeared in a number of exhibition bouts since putting an end to his journey as a professional, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/40987472\/floyd-mayweather-goes-distance-vs-john-gotti-iii-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">facing the likes of Tenshin Nasukawa, Logan Paul and John Gotti III to name a few.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tension between Floyd Mayweather and Roy Jones Jr continues to heat up. The retired American legends have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}