Roy Jones Jr. had a greater boxing career than Mike Tyson, according to a fighter who is also competing at the exhibition
- Boxing icons Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. take part in a November exhibition in Carson, California.
- The event will be supported with a number of official fights, including a Mayweather Promotions veteran called Badou Jack against Blake McKernan, an unbeaten boxer.
- "Roy probably had a better career [than Tyson]," Jack said this week.
- Excited to be part of the show, Jack also said: "Tyson's dangerous, Roy is too. Tyson's super explosive but they're [both] old now."
Roy Jones Jr. had a greater career than Mike Tyson according to Badou Jack, a fighter who is also competing at the boxing exhibition in November.
The two former heavyweight champions take part in an informal bout in two months' time, which will be broadcast as a pay-per-view event on the Triller app, and is supported with an undercard of official fights in Carson, California.
Jack, a 36-year-old Mayweather Promotions light heavyweight, will fight an unbeaten American called Blake McKernan at the show.
"In their primes, I think Roy probably had a better career, but Tyson is a heavyweight … a real heavyweight," Jack said on The Mayweather Channel this week.
Renowned for his clubbing punching power and underrated defensive movements, Tyson exploded onto the boxing scene in the 1980s, bulldozing through an array of overmatched journeymen before obliterating Trevor Berbick in 1986 to become boxing's youngest ever heavyweight champ aged 20 years and four months.
He defended the title against the likes of Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks, and Frank Bruno, but saw his career fizzle out somewhat in the 1990s and 2000s, losing his biggest matches against Evander Holyfield (twice) and Lennox Lewis.
A generational fighter, Jones Jr., with his extraordinary athletic capabilities and his shots launched from unconventional angles, won world titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight, returning signature wins over Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, and John Ruiz.
After his heavyweight bout against Ruiz in 2003, Jones Jr. appeared to be unaware of when to call time on his career, and went on to suffer five knockout losses through the next decade against opponents he would have likely dominated in his prime.
Now, Tyson and Jones Jr. return to the ring for a glorified spar, and Jack said while it is only an exhibition, Tyson only knows one fighting mode — seek and destroy.
"I hope they don't get hurt," Jack said. "Tyson's dangerous, Roy is too. Tyson's super explosive but they're [both] old now.
"I'm just excited to be a part of it and see them move around. I don't know if they'll go all out. I don't think Mike Tyson can take it easy, but we'll see what happens."
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