{"id":462772,"date":"2026-02-09T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462772\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:52:07","slug":"roy-jones-says-world-champion-will-surpass-mayweather-because-he-doesnt-duck-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462772\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones says world champion will surpass Mayweather because ‘he doesn’t duck anyone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There aren\u2019t many fighters that are deemed to be superior to Floyd Mayweather but Roy Jones Jr<\/a> believes there is one active fighter who claims that accolade.<\/p>\n

Mayweather called time on his illustrious career in 2017<\/a> having put together a perfect 50-0 record along with world title reigns in five divisions from super-featherweight to super-welterweight.<\/p>\n

He also defeated some of the biggest names in the sport, including the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez, though one criticism by some fans of Mayweather is he was tactical with deciding when and who to fight.<\/p>\n

Because of that, boxing legend Jones Jr has explained to Fight Hub TV<\/a> why he thinks unbeaten star Shakur Stevenson has eclipsed Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is [the Mayweather of this era], he\u2019s not giving guys any chance to beat him but the difference with him [Shakur] is he\u2019s fighting everybody. He\u2019s not ducking and dodging. He\u2019s fighting everybody and that\u2019s a bit different.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be Floyd Mayweather [in terms of] not getting beat in his era, but the difference to Floyd is he\u2019s willing to take on the big challenge, and he\u2019s also getting the right money for it early in his career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson became a four-weight world champion last month when he defeated Teofimo Lopez to win the WBO super-lightweight title at Madison Square Garden in New York<\/a>, going alongside his previous triumphs at featherweight, super featherweight and lightweight.<\/p>\n

He also holds impressive wins over fighters such as William Zepeda and Oscar Valdez during his career, and at just 28-years-old, time is well and truly on his side for Stevenson to continue to add to his already impressive resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There aren\u2019t many fighters that are deemed to be superior to Floyd Mayweather but Roy Jones Jr believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-462772","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\/462772","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=462772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}