{"id":789099,"date":"2026-07-08T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:42:10","slug":"roy-jones-jr-wants-errol-spence-to-target-biggest-fight-in-the-division-if-he-beats-tim-tszyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789099\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr wants Errol Spence to target &#8216;biggest fight in the division&#8217; if he beats Tim Tszyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Jones Jr suspects Errol Spence Jr could be involved in the \u201cbiggest fight\u201d at 154lbs if he comes through his showdown against Tim Tszyu.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will square off at the Afterpay Arena in Sydney, Australia, on July 25, with Spence ending a three-year layoff following his defeat to Terence Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being billed as a 50\/50 contest, their undisputed welterweight clash ended in one-sided fashion as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/38082047\/errol-spence-jr-terence-crawford-live-boxing-results-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crawford engineered a ninth-round stoppage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Spence was relieved of his WBC, IBF and WBA titles but now looks to reinvent himself at a higher weight.<\/p>\n<p>Taking on a fellow former world champion in Tszyu, the 36-year-old will return at a catchweight at 158lbs before bidding, he hopes, to make his mark at super-welterweight.<\/p>\n<p>One potential opponent is WBC champion Sebastian Fundora, his PBC stablemate, who <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/errol-spence-was-targeting-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spence was in talks with before agreeing to face Tszyu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most lucrative fight, however, could end being against Vergil Ortiz Jr, who remains a close rival of WBO and WBA champion Jaron \u2018Boots\u2019 Ennis.<\/p>\n<p>While sharing his thoughts via <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MoOwdMxYTtY?si=P2OPxvD6lbTFrDe6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ALL THE SMOKE FIGHT<\/a>, pound-for-pound legend Jones named Ortiz vs Spence as the biggest fight in the division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest fight right now, for that division, is Errol Spence \u2013 if he beats Tszyu \u2013 vs Vergil Ortiz in Dallas [Texas]. They [would] sell out Dallas [AT&amp;T] Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t throw that away [by] chasing Boots; you let Boots go and fight Fundora first \u2013 you wait and see what happens in the Errol Spence [vs Tszyu] fight, if you\u2019re smart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou [would] make way more money right there in Dallas Stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As two Texans who trained at the same amateur gym, a showdown between Ortiz and Spence would certainly generate plenty of ticket sales at the 80,000-capacity AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr suspects Errol Spence Jr could be involved in the \u201cbiggest fight\u201d at 154lbs if he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-789099","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\/789099","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=789099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}