{"id":264978,"date":"2017-12-04T05:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264978"},"modified":"2017-12-04T05:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:59:33","slug":"anderson-silva-roy-jones-jr-attempting-set-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/anderson-silva-roy-jones-jr-attempting-set-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva and Roy Jones Jr. are once again attempting to set up a fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before Conor McGregor<\/a> stepped through the ropes of the boxing ring to battle Floyd Mayweather, Anderson Silva strived to do the same to fight Roy Jones Jr. Regrettably, the fight never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

Today, however, Jones Jr. would still love to welcome Silva to the boxing ring. The boxing legend attempted to reignite discussions for this fight on\u00a0<\/span>The Ask Gary Vee Show.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still trying to fight Anderson Silva right now,” Jones Jr. said (h\/t MMAFighting.com<\/a>). “Me and Anderson Silva have been trying to fight way before Floyd Mayweather and McGregor ever thought about this. We\u2019ve been trying to fight for nine years now and they would not let him get free to fight me. . . Me and him could have did this a long time ago and we were at the pinnacle of our careers when we first started talking about it so why they still won\u2019t let us fight right now, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe still wants to fight me and I still want to fight him,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe has 14 professional boxing matches so the different thing about it is, he has boxing experience. So it\u2019s conceivable that he could do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of us want to fight right now still and the UFC won\u2019t let him free to fight. I\u2019m 48, going on 49 in January, and because of how big it is, and how big of an event it is, and I know what it means to him, I\u2019m still willing to fight Anderson Silva tomorrow if he was free to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, Silva is also into this fight. The former UFC middleweight champ accepted the boxer’s challenge on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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ok Roy Jr this is everything I’ve wanted for years, long before all this happened, it will be a pleasure to step into the ring with you. I have great respect and admiration for everything you’ve done in boxing and everyone knows that this has always been my great dream. Let’s make this event happen. I think we have this right, in fact this is something that both You and I are willing to do. So. Let’s make it happen, Mr. Roy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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