Roy Jones Jr. is threatening to cancel the Mike Tyson exhibition and says he should be compensated for its 2-month delay

• Roy Jones Jr. said he would withdraw from November's exhibition with Mike Tyson unless he's paid more to compensate for the bout's two-month delay.
• The exhibition was originally supposed to take place in September but has been moved to November 28 in hopes of attracting more viewers.
• "My lawyers is talking with their lawyers," Jones told the Daily Mail, adding that "if they don't make it make sense," the fight "would be off."

Roy Jones Jr. is threatening to pull out of the exhibition against Mike Tyson, saying he should be compensated for the bout's two-month delay.

The exhibition, the first in a series of informal "League of Legends" matches, was originally supposed to take place in September but will instead go ahead on November 28 in Carson, California. The delay was implemented with the hope that a longer build-up can attract more viewers.

"I've had to cancel other stuff to be out here, it's upset my calendar, I've got to change things," Jones told the Daily Mail.

The exhibition with Tyson, who became boxing's youngest heavyweight world champion at age 20 in 1986, would be Jones' first appearance in a ring since 2018, when he won his 75th pro fight against Scott Sigmon.

"That's the biggest issue, I'm not a full time boxer anymore so I do other things to make an income," Jones, 51, said. "If I can't do other things then I should be compensated for that, because it changes the schematics. It's not acceptable."

Jones said that his legal team was talking with Tyson's but that if they couldn't figure out a solution he would not take part in the exhibition.

"We're trying to figure something out, my lawyers is talking with their lawyers, trying to figure out ways to make it a better situation so that I can compensated for it, that is more beneficial for me to do," he said.

"If they don't make it make sense," Jones added, the fight "would be off."

He went on: "Why would I change the date and mess up the rest of my year when I agreed to September 12. They said they wanted to get a crowd, if you want to get a crowd, that's a different type of money. If you want a big event, that's a different type of money.

"You think I'm going to say, okay, let's look at my money, but I'm not getting no better percent. How dumb is that to me? So let's see what happens."

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