Mike Tyson vs Floyd Mayweather ‘Doesn’t Really Interest’ Roy Jones Jr

Talking to Andre Ward on ATS: Hall of Game Podcast, Jones Jr. highlighted the massive difference between both fighters as one of the main reasons why the fight wouldn’t work.

“These two guys were never even close to being in a fight in their prime. So, what’s it going to be now? How’s that going to work out? You feel where I’m coming from. He’s (Mayweather) not going to be a heavyweight; he has never been a heavyweight. And he’s (Tyson) going to be above 200 pounds. So, how’s that going to look like, unless he don’t fight,” he said.

Jones Jr ’s words weren’t misplaced. Tyson’s lowest recorded weight was approximately 212 pounds, which he achieved early in his career, during the mid-1980s. He weighed higher in his later fights, even reaching 239 pounds for his fight against Danny Williams in 2004. In fact, even his comeback fight against Jake Paul, the legend came in at 228.5 pounds.

Meanwhile, Mayweather has never even come close to that weight during his fights. His highest official weight class was light middleweight at 154 pounds when he fought Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. He weighed a lot less in his last professional fight, against Conor McGregor in 2017, coming in at 149.5 pounds.

Weight aside, he even feels that the fight lacks the crowd-pulling power it would have had a few years prior.

“That doesn’t really interest me because I can’t really see the mythological idea of them really being in the ring. People see the mythological idea of me and Mike Tyson fighting,” said Jones Jr.

“I’m Interested”

However, there is one fight that Jones Jr . is excited about, despite the massive weight difference between the fighters—the showdown between Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis.

“And now to Tank’s credit, I’m interested in the Tank vs Jake Paul exhibition because I know for a fact that if they do it for real, Tank is capable, although he is small, he’s capable of knocking Jake Paul out,” he said during the same interview. “Just like Jake Paul is capable of knocking him out because he’s bigger.”