Roy Jones Jr, 54, wants to fight Tommy Fury, 24, despite huge age gap
Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr is negotiating a fight with Tommy Fury - despite being 30 years the Love Island star's senior.
Jones Jr has had two fights in the last five years; an exhibition draw with Mike Tyson and a points defeat by former UFC champion Anthony Pettis. He reigned as world champion in four divisions during his professional career and has since trained fighters including Chris Eubank Jr.
He could now face Fury who is fresh from beating YouTube star KSI in their grudge fight in October. “Me and Tommy Fury is a great idea," Jones Jr told Casino Alpha. "John Fury initially said he wanted to fight Mike Tyson, so I said If you're all going to do that, let's go and make an all-out card - if John fights Mike, I'll fight Tommy on the undercard or as the co-main, that would be awesome right? Tommy Fury said, ‘Let's fight for real’ so I said, ‘That might work, but I need to get these knees right first’.
"That's going to take me a little bit of time, not a lot of time, six to eight weeks - but we’re in talks, it's being negotiated, it's a really interesting fight because Tommy is inexperienced and that’s balanced out but my age and experience; I’m a 55 year old guy (in January) who can actually fight for real and I’d be fighting a guy who's not really that experienced, but who is built right and who can get the job done, it’s an even fight. If the money is right it will be good, but if it's not a crazy, astronomical amount of money, why would I do it?"
“Me and Tommy could be bigger than me and Mike Tyson because who would ever have thought they'd see Fury versus Roy Jones? The idea would be out of the question but because of social media and Tommy's popularity it becomes a possibility. This fight would be huge when you look at it from a social media standpoint and it's a fact that it's a 50-50 fight.
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“The social media audience like to see these big events ‘can this old guy keep this young guy off him?’ ‘Is the young guy good enough to overpower this old guy?’ In boxing most of the time we know who's going to win, we don't want to see that. We want to see something that's more interesting to us.
"Can Roy Jones Jr at 55 jump in the ring with young Tommy Fury, who knows what might happen. That's what boxing's about; the suspense, the buildup, the hype of what might happen and who may prevail? I can prevail. He can prevail. That's what makes boxing big.”
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