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Did Roy Jones duck anyone at SMW?: seperating fact from fiction
There was a vid up on youtube once featuring the Q and A that Jones did before the Brannon fight, if anyone knows where I can download it it would be appreciated.
Frankie Liles:
Nigel Benn:
Chris Eubank:
http://www.east side boxing.com/news.php?p=4223&more=1
Honorable Mentions:
Bernard Hopkins:
http://www.east side boxing.com/news.php?p=211&more=1
Julian Jackson:
I think that covers everyone, lol
Frankie Liles:
That fight couldn’t be made at the time because Don King had exclusive rights to Liles and from 1991 through 1998 King wasn’t involved in a single HBO telecast and had exclusive control over Showtime championship boxing. That particular cold war didn’t end until HBO and King formed a truce in 1999 so they could put together the De La Hoya-Trinidad and Lewis-Holyfield mega-fights
Nigel Benn:
Recognising that independence was the most important thing implanted in Jones by his father, the Levins came in on the strict understanding that no promoter would be given options of future contests. Thus the impasse that exists between Jones and Benn, who is under contract to Frank Warren and Don King. "I'll fight Benn any time," Jones said last year when meeting British boxing writers in Atlantic City shortly before Lennox Lewis defeated Tommy Morrison. "Tell me where he is and I'll go and see him. If Benn wants this fight then he's got to understand that I won't sign away anything to the people who promote him. It's that simple."
Chris Eubank:
Eubank called out Roy around 1996
Before Eubank met Collins, there was speculation about multi-million pound fights against his former rival, Nigel Benn, and the current sensation of American boxing, Roy Jones, but since losing to Collins both those lucrative avenues dried up.
"Eubank is no good to me because he has now lost twice," said Jones recently.
"Eubank is no good to me because he has now lost twice," said Jones recently.
Honorable Mentions:
Bernard Hopkins:
Now, with respect to Hopkins, Roy did make a good faith effort in trying to make that fight happen. It didn't happen I guess because Bernard's number was too high.
HOPKINS:People want to me to go up to 190 pounds to fight "superman" and be basically a sacrificial lamb
Julian Jackson:
Quick enough to repel a concerted attack by promoter Don King. King approached Jones last fall, seeking an opponent for Julian Jackson, a King client (and the WBC middleweight champion until he was knocked out by Gerald McClellan on May .
" King wanted to get me to commit to a deal, but I couldn't figure out what I was getting paid, or if I was getting paid. Nothing," says Jones. "He just goes on and on until you don't know where you are. He tries to leave everything scrambled and to get you to commit to a scrambled agreement. I told King, 'No, thanks.' I didn't need to beat Julian Jackson to prove how good I can be."
" King wanted to get me to commit to a deal, but I couldn't figure out what I was getting paid, or if I was getting paid. Nothing," says Jones. "He just goes on and on until you don't know where you are. He tries to leave everything scrambled and to get you to commit to a scrambled agreement. I told King, 'No, thanks.' I didn't need to beat Julian Jackson to prove how good I can be."
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