{"id":621034,"date":"2026-04-22T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:44:13","slug":"roy-jones-ranks-one-man-above-all-others-as-the-most-skilful-boxer-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621034\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones ranks one man above all others as the most skilful boxer of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> had just one name in mind when it came to selecting his choice for the most skilful boxer of all time.<\/p>\n

Jones could arguably place himself at the top of that list<\/a>, with his incredible attributes leading to world title wins in four weight divisions, beginning at middleweight before most impressively becoming world heavyweight champion in 2003.<\/p>\n

That triumph saw Jones become the first former middleweight world champion to win a world heavyweight title in over a century, while he also spent a number of years as undisputed light heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

Other boxers that are often mentioned for possessing elite skills include the likes of Floyd Mayweather<\/a>, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Pernell Whitaker and James Toney, but none of those made the cut when it came to Jones picking his number one.<\/p>\n

Instead, Jones once revealed<\/a> that he gave the honour of the most skilful fighter to the late, great Salvador Sanchez.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best I ever saw? Skill-wise, a guy by the name of Salvador S\u00e1nchez. The best all-round fighter that I ever saw.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanchez rose to prominence in the early 1980s, spending a number of years as world featherweight champion. He possessed top level counter-punching and was extremely effective both on the front and back foot.<\/p>\n

Many onlookers were tipping the Mexican to potentially go on to become one of the greatest boxers of all time, but tragically Sanchez was involved in a fatal car crash in 1982, passing away at the age of 23 and ending his career with a record of 44 wins from 46 fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr had just one name in mind when it came to selecting his choice for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-621034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621034","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=621034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}