Roy Jones Jr. said he’s ready to die in his forthcoming fight with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
They are set to fight in an exhibition fight on Nov. 28, which will be Tyson’s first appearance in the ring in 15 years. Despite that absence, Jones is wary of the threat his opponent poses.
The 51-year-old fighter appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast to discuss the fight and acknowledged that Tyson appears to have maintained the power that saw him twice become a heavyweight champion.
“You get hit by Mike Tyson, anything can happen to you,” Jones said. “Mike Tyson is not just an ordinary puncher. I love boxing, so if I’ve gotta die boxing, I’m gonna die a happy man. There are other ways I’d rather go, but if I went that way, I’m not mad at that.”
Jones told Rogan that despite the pair’s long boxing careers, they were never lined up for a bout until the exhibition was proposed.
“I would have fought Mike Tyson,” Jones said. “He was the youngest heavyweight champ of all time. To me, he was one of the most explosive, entertaining guys you’d want to see. Because you never know what he’s going to do, and it’s the same reason I’m going in right now.
“Nobody ever saw me going to heavyweight back then. By the time I did, he was already on his way out. He had already departed the heavyweight division.”
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