By Mark Vester
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. is not a believer that pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will be able to defeat Shane Mosley or Floyd Mayweather Jr. Speaking on KFXX, Jones doesn't really see size as the big downfall for Pacquiao. He feels Mosley and Mayweather are faster and stronger. He doesn't even think it's fair to place Pacquiao in those fights.
“I think Pacquiao loses both of those fights. I love Pacquiao as a fighter. I don’t really think his size, these guys are a little bit faster and bigger. To me its not really a fair situation to put him in,” Jones was quoted as saying by Jimmy Shapiro of Sports Radio Interviews.
Jones plans to face Jeff Lacy on August 15 and already has a planned fight with Danny Green in November. He plans to fight on for some time. He looks at Hopkins' decision to fight on, but also says that Hopkins is avoiding him. Jones won a decision over Hopkins in 1993. Issues over money and other problems have always squashed a planned rematch.
“I have people that advise me as well as I know in my head too. I have guys that I listen to that will tell me the truth. 30 is the new 20, so 40 must be the new 30, because look at Bernard Hopkins. He’s still beating people at 43 and 44 years old," Jones said.
"He don’t want to try me though because he don’t want to suffer one of those beatings. I’m close to his age but still he knows he’ll suffer one of those beatings so he don’t want to fight me. He’ll fight anybody that he sees he can beat. You have to kind of careful choose I guess for people like him when you’re fighting at that age. Myself, I still haven’t gotten to that point, I’ll fight anybody. When I get to that point where I carefully have to choose, I’m going to stop.”
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