{"id":266550,"date":"2025-11-16T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266550\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:28:08","slug":"manny-pacquiao-has-his-say-on-who-was-better-in-their-prime-between-roy-jones-and-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266550\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has his say on who was better in their prime between Roy Jones and Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manny Pacquiao<\/a> delivered a swift response, akin to his blistering style in the ring, when asked to compare the illustrious careers of Floyd Mayweather and Roy Jones Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Filipino southpaw locked horns with Mayweather back in 2015, many years removed from what most would have considered their respective primes.<\/p>\n

For Pacquiao, especially, the blockbuster event arrived far too late, with this version of the eight-division world champion not being the same force that he once was.<\/p>\n

Mayweather, too, was hardly at the peak of his powers, but his masterful defensive manoeuvres were nonetheless enough to convincingly outpoint his long-term rival.<\/p>\n

Instead, Mayweather\u2019s prime is widely considered to be around the time that he secured a punishing 10th-round stoppage victory over Diego Corrales in 2001.<\/p>\n

Back then, \u2018Pretty Boy\u2019 was not only campaigning down at super-featherweight \u2013 several divisions below 147lbs \u2013 but had just initiated his dominant surge in the lower weight classes.<\/p>\n

Mayweather did, of course, later amass his more high-profile victories against the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Shane Mosely, but this was during a time when many felt that he was fighting above his natural weight.<\/p>\n

Jones Jr, meanwhile, is another pound-for-pound legend who flew through the divisions, though many believe that his best years came at middle and super-middleweight.<\/p>\n

Notable victories over Bernard Hopkins and James Toney, for instance, were enough to cement Jones\u2019 greatness in those particular weight classes.<\/p>\n

And so, when considering that, as well as Pacquiao\u2019s bitter feud with Mayweather, it is perhaps unsurprising that the 46-year-old opined in an interview with FightHype<\/a> that, prime for prime, Jones was the better fighter.<\/p>\n

Jones and Mayweather had actually been linked to a shock fight with one another earlier this year<\/a> after the pair became embroiled in a back and forth on social media.<\/p>\n

While those talks have now gone quiet, it remarkably appears that a rematch between Pacquiao and Mayweather could be on the cards for 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao delivered a swift response, akin to his blistering style in the ring, when asked to compare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-266550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266550","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=266550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}