{"id":40340,"date":"2025-08-02T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40340\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:21:09","slug":"who-wins-mythical-matchup-between-roy-jones-oleksandr-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40340\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wins mythical matchup between Roy Jones, Oleksandr Usyk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to Terence Crawford<\/a> and Naoya Inoue<\/a>, Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> is viewed as the consensus No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
Back-to-back victories over Tyson Fury and his recent fifth-round KO win against Daniel Dubois<\/a> solidified his case, with the Ukrainian becoming a three-time undisputed champion.
Being on top of the pound-for-pound mountain<\/a> is a summit not many have reached. Roy Jones Jr<\/a>., however, knows what it looks like. <\/p>\n

During his heyday, the Hall of Famer made it look easy as he sliced and diced his way through the competition. Of course, Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) came along roughly a decade past Jones’ best. <\/p>\n

He has studied Usyk. When asked if he could solve the bemusing puzzle he presents in the ring, Jones gave a confident answer. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have found a way to beat him, that\u2019s just who I was,\u201d Jones said to Ade Oladipo of DAZN. \u201cI was not losing to nobody in my prime. I would have a way to beat him.\u201d<\/p>\n

After violently stopping Dubois on July 19 at Wembley Stadium, Usyk’s list of viable opponents is shrinking. Jones, 56, isn\u2019t eyeing a comeback. Although he last made an appearance in 2023, against Anthony Pettis, losing a majority decision, he hasn\u2019t been his pound-for-pound self in nearly 20 years. <\/p>\n

His career is littered with countless big-time wins and titles. But he achieved legendary status following his heavyweight title win over John Ruiz in 2003. If Jones could, he would love to jump into a time machine and square off with Usyk. <\/p>\n

Instead, Jones will continue to sit back and watch. As for the current crop of contenders looking to pick his brain to figure out a way to beat Usyk, Jones will keep his lips zipped in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of know what I would\u2019ve done, but I\u2019m not gonna explain that because that\u2019s for them to figure out.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all due respect to Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue, Oleksandr Usyk is viewed as the consensus No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-40340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340","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=40340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}