{"id":127766,"date":"2025-09-10T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127766\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:42:10","slug":"roy-jones-jr-says-canelo-made-a-mistake-calling-out-one-man-you-got-what-you-asked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127766\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr Says Canelo Made A Mistake Calling Out One Man: “You Got What You Asked For”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> believes Canelo Alvarez<\/a> made a mistake when he called for a showdown with one fighter in particular.<\/p>\n

Canelo began his professional career as a 15-year-old back in 2015 and since then the Mexican star has gone on to become a world champion in four weight classes, as well as the undisputed super-middleweight champion on two occasions.<\/p>\n

He is less than two weeks away from his long-awaited \u2018super-fight\u2019 with Terence Crawford<\/a>, as the pound-for-pound stars gear up to do battle on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/a><\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for the Mexican icon however as he has suffered two defeats throughout the course of his career, the first of these coming against retired five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather<\/a> back in 2013.<\/p>\n

Speaking on All The Smoke Fight<\/a>, Hall of Famer Jones shockingly claimed that Canelo \u2018got what he asked for\u2019 when he called out and faced Mayweather during the earlier stages of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 21-years-old? \u2026 He got what he asked for, it\u2019s too early.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather defeated Canelo via majority decision to capture the Mexican\u2019s WBC light-middleweight title<\/a>, becoming a five-division world champion when they clashed at the MGM Grand Garden Arena twelve years ago.<\/p>\n

\u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather would go on to have a handful of bouts before he eventually called time on his career in 2017, just a few months after he defeated MMA fighter Conor McGregor in their monumental crossover bout, walking away from the sport with an unblemished record of 50-0 to his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr believes Canelo Alvarez made a mistake when he called for a showdown with one fighter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-127766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}