{"id":369171,"date":"2020-11-27T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=369171"},"modified":"2020-11-27T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:59:35","slug":"roy-jones-jr-says-he-could-fight-anderson-silva-after-mike-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/roy-jones-jr-says-he-could-fight-anderson-silva-after-mike-tyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr. says he could fight Anderson Silva after Mike Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. says that he could fight Anderson Silva next after he takes on rival Mike Tyson this Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old Jones Jr. comes out of a two-year layoff when he returns to the ring against the 54-year-old Tyson, who is stepping into the ring for the first time in 15 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/mike-tyson\/mike-tyson-vs-roy-jones-jr-rules-and-regulations-revealed\/\">The two will meet in an eight-round exhibition bout that features a modified ruleset in the main event of Saturday&#8217;s boxing card live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California<\/a>. Despite the age of both men and the controversial ruleset that will be used, there seems to be quite a bit of interest in this bout from fans and media.<\/p>\n<p>We recently heard that Tyson is considering going on a legends tour of sorts and fighting other elder statesmen of boxing such as Evander Holyfield, depending of course on how this weekend&#8217;s match can go. The same goes for Jones Jr., apparently, as he said on Friday during the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamonMartin\/status\/1332412367523688448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a> that this is not necessarily a one-off. According to Jones Jr., if all goes well this weekend against Tyson, he plans on continuing his legends tour against the former UFC middleweight champion Silva.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roy Jones Jr. says if everything goes well on Saturday night, he&#39;s almost positive that he&#39;ll finally face Anderson Silva in a boxing match <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TysonJones?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TysonJones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Damon Martin (@DamonMartin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamonMartin\/status\/1332412367523688448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Roy Jones Jr. says if everything goes well on Saturday night, he&#8217;s almost positive that he&#8217;ll finally face Anderson Silva in a boxing match #TysonJones<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jones Jr. and Silva have been connected to a potential boxing match for many years, but it never happened. One reason is that Silva was under contract with the UFC and UFC president Dana White didn&#8217;t give him permission to box. Now that Silva has been released from the UFC, a boxing match against Jones Jr. is much more realistic now. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/promoter-claims-mike-tyson-and-roy-jones-jr-are-allowed-to-go-for-a-knockout-and-says-betting-is-allowed\/\">Jones Jr. just has to go out there and take care of business and then it&#8217;s possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you intrigued by Roy Jons Jr. vs. Anderson Silva in a boxing match?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. says that he could fight Anderson Silva next after he takes on rival Mike Tyson this Saturday night. The 51-year-old Jones Jr. comes out of a two-year layoff when he returns to the ring against the 54-year-old Tyson, who is stepping into the ring for the first time in 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54474,"featured_media":357343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10098,10107,10578,10189],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roy Jones Jr. says he could fight Anderson Silva after Mike Tyson | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. says that he could fight Anderson Silva next after he takes on rival Mike Tyson this Saturday night.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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