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Q - Roy, the question that I need to start with here is, are you definitely retired?
Roy - I'm definitely done now. Having achieved what I have achieved is rare, and walking away being mentally, y'know, still with it, still got it all together, is the best time.
Q - What we're your best wins?
Roy - My favorite, but not my best was knocking out Montell Griffin in the first round of our rematch. The DQ was B.S. But it was great to do him in like I did after that. My best, well, just so many, y'know? When I schooled Bernard Hopkins like nobody else ever did, that was special.
My win over Virgil Hill was phenomenal. Eric Harding, world class fighter, Woods, Ruiz, Tarver, it's hard to choose just one off a list so great and so long. Trinadad as well of course.
Q - Why did you lose the fights that you did, when you did?
Roy - In boxing they say timing is everything, and some of these guys just got me at the right time. I never lost a fight, DQ aside, until I was 35, that's not my prime. But it is what it is.
I thought I was robbed against Joe Calzaghe, I trained real hard for that one. He never hurt me, all this tippy-tappy, slappy stuff going on. I downed him hard and was the aggressor throughout. I won that 115-112 on rewatching it.
Q - Did you consider staying at heavyweight?
Roy - I did, but it would have to have been a Klitschko, and those guys, getting inside of that jab and their body strength, would have been an unfair fight.
Q - We're you the best of your era in your weight class?
Roy - I was one of the best ever in my weight class. But I look back now and I consider myself the #2 of my era, just behind Dariusz Michalczewski.
He's another guy who only ever lost to father time, and yeah, I'll be honest, I did avoid him. Looking back, I should have just went balls to the wall and took him on. I just always thought, had it in the back of my mind, that he had a slight edge on me.
Roy Jones Jr was interviewed by Martin T Roll at Gray's Papaya, New York.
Roy - I'm definitely done now. Having achieved what I have achieved is rare, and walking away being mentally, y'know, still with it, still got it all together, is the best time.
Q - What we're your best wins?
Roy - My favorite, but not my best was knocking out Montell Griffin in the first round of our rematch. The DQ was B.S. But it was great to do him in like I did after that. My best, well, just so many, y'know? When I schooled Bernard Hopkins like nobody else ever did, that was special.
My win over Virgil Hill was phenomenal. Eric Harding, world class fighter, Woods, Ruiz, Tarver, it's hard to choose just one off a list so great and so long. Trinadad as well of course.
Q - Why did you lose the fights that you did, when you did?
Roy - In boxing they say timing is everything, and some of these guys just got me at the right time. I never lost a fight, DQ aside, until I was 35, that's not my prime. But it is what it is.
I thought I was robbed against Joe Calzaghe, I trained real hard for that one. He never hurt me, all this tippy-tappy, slappy stuff going on. I downed him hard and was the aggressor throughout. I won that 115-112 on rewatching it.
Q - Did you consider staying at heavyweight?
Roy - I did, but it would have to have been a Klitschko, and those guys, getting inside of that jab and their body strength, would have been an unfair fight.
Q - We're you the best of your era in your weight class?
Roy - I was one of the best ever in my weight class. But I look back now and I consider myself the #2 of my era, just behind Dariusz Michalczewski.
He's another guy who only ever lost to father time, and yeah, I'll be honest, I did avoid him. Looking back, I should have just went balls to the wall and took him on. I just always thought, had it in the back of my mind, that he had a slight edge on me.
Roy Jones Jr was interviewed by Martin T Roll at Gray's Papaya, New York.
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