{"id":180730,"date":"2025-09-30T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:15:06","slug":"roy-jones-jr-is-certain-who-wins-floyd-mayweather-vs-prime-sugar-ray-leonard-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180730\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr Is Certain Who Wins Floyd Mayweather vs Prime Sugar Ray Leonard Fight"},"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> has predicted the outcome of an intriguing fantasy clash 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\/sugar-ray-leonard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather and Leonard are regarded as being two of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up a pair of gloves, proving their credentials throughout the course of their respective professional careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather became a world champion in five weight classes during his 21-year tenure, defeating a number of generational greats along the way including Canelo Alvarez, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/31581466\/retired-fading-floyd-mayweather-remains-boxing-biggest-showman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">before his retirement in 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five-weight world champion Leonard took the sport by storm during the 1980s where he became a member of \u2018The Four Kings\u2019 alongside former rivals Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns, racking up at least one victory each over this legendary trio.<\/p>\n<p>Many boxing figures have debated who would have come out on top were Mayweather and Leonard to ever meet, and now four-weight world champion Jones has weighed in with his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Xk8llpaUxu4?si=lmn3MD8O8dFmPxLf&amp;t=40\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking on All The Smoke Fight<\/a>, Jones didn\u2019t hesitate to back Leonard to defeat Mayweather had they faced each other, as he claims the legendary American doesn\u2019t get \u2018enough credit\u2019 from the boxing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, people don\u2019t give him enough credit. People always say \u2018well Floyd would beat Sugar.\u2019 No baby, Floyd is not as nearly as mean as Sugar was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow you gonna keep him off him? Sugar is a dog, people don\u2019t [understand], just because his name is Sugar don\u2019t mean nothing, Sugar is a dog, people don\u2019t give him enough credit for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/duran-and-leonard-agree-on-goat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps the most famous victory of Leonard\u2019s glittering professional came when he faced Duran for the second time in November of 1980<\/a>, forcing the Panamanian icon to quit during the eighth round of the infamous \u2018No Mas\u2019 fight in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr has predicted the outcome of an intriguing fantasy clash between Floyd Mayweather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-180730","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\/180730","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=180730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}