\u201cToo hard to resist, too incredible to resist, too much of a blessing to resist\u201d Jones told said. \u201cWhen I won the heavyweight title, I told them the only other person I would fight as a heavyweight was Mike Tyson. If Mike Tyson didn\u2019t want to fight, I was going back down to light heavyweight. From what I got \u2026 was that he was through with boxing, he didn\u2019t want to box no more, so I left and went back to light heavyweight. I didn\u2019t stick around, but to have him come out now and say, \u2018OK, I want to come back. Guess what? You wanted it, you get your opportunity.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Yes.’<\/p>\n
Because this fight is an exhibition, the result will not go on either man’s record. Yet Jones doesn’t believe it will be all that different from a real fight\u2014particularly with a juggernaut like Tyson standing across the ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo different,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI mean, the first three rounds, he\u2019s gonna be dangerous. He was like that in his prime. He\u2019s like that now. He\u2019s a guy that can knock you out from Round 1 to Round 12, so in the eighth round he\u2019ll still be dangerous. But if you can get the fatigue factor to set in, then you got a better chance. So for me, I got to try and work off the second half of the fight more so than I work off the first half.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMike knows one way \u2013 kill. That\u2019s all he knows. Destruction and destroy. That\u2019s all he understands, so my mindset is I better be ready when I go in between those ropes. One thing my dad\u2019s taught me, he said, \u2018If you\u2019re going to kill a fly, you kill a fly with an axe, not a fly swatter.’\u201d<\/p>\n
What’s your prediction for the upcoming exhibition fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Mike Tyson?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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