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Joe Rogan Experience #1548 - Roy Jones Jr.

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Roy Jones Jr., ladies and gentlemen.
Hi, what's up, my brother? How you doing?
I'm honored to have you in here. I've been a fan forever.
I know this, and I was going to tell you that I'm very happy to be here for you
and for me,
because I've been a fan of yours as well, but I always love the support that
you give me.
You've always supported me since day one.
You've been one of the best people that I can hear talk about me since day one.
So I just want to say thank you, man, for all the support, for being a brother.
Thank you, sir. Thank you. My pleasure.
I feel like we're brothers now, you know?
For sure. I've been a fan forever.
Thank you.
Like, from way back in the day, you know, your song, Y'all Must Have Forgot.
I didn't forget shit. I remember all of it, man.
It is.
I remember when your fights were basically executions.
Yes, exactly.
There was some years, man, where you would just like, see, how is this guy
going to survive,
and how long, and you had, there was a time in your career when you were at
your peak,
where you had devised this style that was so different than anyone else's.
Very few jabs you would throw, a lead hook, and no one knew how to prepare for
it,
because there was no sparring partners that could emulate it.
Your speed was off the charts.
Your movement was off the charts.
I think to this day, you're the only person in CompuBox history that went a
full round
without having a single punch scored on them.
And they say I'm not the best defensive fighter ever.
Listen, that's, that's, no one's ever, I mean, maybe Willie Pepp might have
done that back in the day.
Before CompuBox.
Yeah.
Since CompuBox era, nobody has ever gone a complete round without getting a
punch scored on them.
It's ridiculous.
And you tell me he ain't the best pound for pound, or he ain't the best, at
least defensive fighter,
and we know about the offense.
But I don't argue, and I just listen to what people say.
No, there was a time where I always said, like, people would say,
oh, but he didn't fight anybody.
I'm like, the fuck he didn't?
They just couldn't, they couldn't compete.
That's all it was.
You fought world champions.
Like the song say, I just make them look like nobody.
Y'all must have forgot.
It's, you had such a strange style, man.
How did you devise that style?
Honestly, man, it was a lot.
My father was a fighter who was trained by Sarge Johnson in the, I think, at
some part of the armed services.
Anyway, my father learned a lot, but he also learned a lot of things not to do.
So by learning those things, he was able to give me a very good foundation.
With that foundation, my father had roosters, fighting roosters when I was
young.
So I would watch the roosters all the time because roosters develop a pecking
order.
And people always talk about, you know, fighting animals, this, that.
They develop a pecking order on their own anyway.
They're going to do that anyway.
So I would always watch them to figure out what made one the king of the pecking
order.
What made him better than the rest.
And when I learned what that was, it was a few things I figured out.
Once I would figure them out, I started emulating, emulating those things in my
boxing style.
So from fighting chickens.
Yes.
What was the thing that you noticed?
Well, first of all, the one that used it was on top, he knew and he cared
himself for the era of confidence that he wasn't going to be messed with.
So when he fight, he do a lot more faking, a lot more fainting, never let him
know when he's coming.
All of a sudden, the day goes.
And he stayed powerful.
He stayed the same the whole day.
And it's like any time he went against anybody, he did the same thing.
He used the same fanks, same fanks.
And he often would do things that other chickens just didn't know to do.
But that's God-given.
Men didn't teach them that.
God gave them that.
So if you learn his characteristics, which I would watch how he would carry
himself all day long, the way he carried himself when he wasn't around the
other ones, the way he got rid of when the other ones came around.
People say, people used to think that I was very egotistical.
I've never been an egotistical person.
But what I was was a highly confident person.
I'm God's game, Rooster.
You feel me?
You bring another one around, guess what?
I'm ready to defend my turf.
That's a funny thing to say to a world champion fighter is one of the greatest
of all time.
You're egotistical.
I mean, listen, if you're not confident, you don't get to that place.
Never, ever.
Impossible.
Never, ever.
You have to have a belief in yourself.
There's no other way.
If you don't, who's going to believe in you?
Yeah, nobody.
I was a fan back when you got fucked over in the Olympics, man.
God damn, did they ruin that.
That was terrible.
That was one of the worst Olympic decisions I've ever seen in my life.
Maybe the worst.
It was so bad, but it was in Korea, right?
Yep, it was in Seoul, South Korea.
And the Korean fighter.
Yeah, but God damn, that was ridiculous.
It was one of those fights where you're like, well, he got the gold medal.
Clear.
And then you see the decision, your jaw drops.
You're like, what is this?
It hurt the sport of boxing, especially amateur boxing.
It hurt it because when you can take a kid 19 years old, he defeats his rival,
clearly.
And you rob him, it really eliminates the integrity of that sport.
Yeah.
And you still don't go back and fix it.
Nobody to this day has come back and tried to fix it.
They gave me Olympic orders.
They gave me the Val Barker Cup, which is for the best boxer at the Olympics.
Well, that's a contradiction.
How crazy is that?
That's a contradiction.
How is the best boxer here now wearing a gold medal?
Yeah.
It was bad, but it also was in one way, it made people really root for you.
It was a blessing in disguise.
And I understood that the second day, I think I might have cried the whole
first day.
But the second day, well, I didn't cry until after I went to the back and asked
the interpreter
to ask him if he really thought he beat me.
Because if he said yes, then he didn't know it, but he was going to get another
one.
But he said, no, I know I didn't win, but it wasn't my fault.
It was the judge's.
I shook his hand and I left.
And I never had another bad feeling towards him because he didn't do it.
You feel me?
You're right.
You have to understand what it's coming.
But then I also realized that not only were the judges not necessarily, they
are to be blamed,
but what God did was take their negative and turn it into a positive for me.
And look where I'm at now.
It was a big talk.
I remember when you began your career, there was a big talk of your career,
how you got fucked over in the Olympics.
It was not a, it wasn't a question.
Not at all.
There was no debate.
There's not, I never saw a single person that made an argument that he won.
Nope.
It was all you.
And so that when you began your career, you had a lot of people rooting for you.
Yes.
And that was a beautiful thing.
That's the blessing above all for me, because to me, it was God's will making
me not put my life
on idle, but turn me up on high.
Yeah.
I had no clue what he was doing, but that's why you're just trusting.
God, look where you at now.
Yeah.
I remember when you fought James Tony and that was a big fight because James
Tony was
in his prime and you were in your prime.
And again, you caught him with that leaping left hook, man, that crazy left
hook and dropped
him.
When you, when you beat James Tony like that, I think a lot of people had to go,
whoa,
like he can do this to an elite top of the food chain world champion.
That's what makes a real superior athlete.
Not that you could do it to guys who are beneath you, but you can do it to guys
who are supposed
to be your equal or above you.
That's when you're really doing it.
Now, people, maybe people don't know, but you have been active and you fought
up until
about, what, like two years ago?
18, 2018.
2018.
Yep.
So you decided you're done or were you 100% done or were you just 100% done?
100%.
How did, tell me, walk me through this call.
How do you get this call to fight Mike Tyson?
Well, one of his guys, Azeem calls McGee and tells McGee, my partner, to tell
me to call.
So I call Azeem.
Azeem says, hey, Mike wants to do a comeback.
He wants to do an exhibition, but he wants you to be his dance partner.
Me?
Yeah.
I said, okay, well, let's see what we can work out.
He said, yeah, we got a lot of different situations going on, but they want to
do it in
a different format and they want to do it in a way that you and Michael are
taking care
of and everything is good.
Well, that didn't try to be necessarily what the case was, but me being Roy
Jones Jr. and
us being in COVID, I'm like, you know what?
Six weeks, that's right around the corner.
He ain't been fighting.
I can get ready.
I'm pretty sure I can get a little bit more ready than he can because he's been
inactive
a lot longer than I have.
So six weeks, I know it's Mike Tyson.
He's big as heck and he's still Mike Tyson and he still can punch.
But six weeks, there's no way he can get prepared for this.
So I said, you know what?
I'll take that.
And I jumped on it.
Well, lo and behold, something happens and they changed.
Now, why did they change it?
What was the, did they give a reason?
They said something about marketing.
They told me something about marketing, but I don't really believe much of what
was said.
I mean, I just can't believe it.
You know, because we had a September 12th day.
That was before football season started.
Basketball, we had started, but people at home with nothing to do.
And that's why I was like, you know what?
I wanted him when I was in my prime.
So why not take him now?
I mean, 12, I mean, six weeks, that's easy.
And they said, well, we got more attention than we expected to get.
And this happened and that happened.
So we want to move it.
I'm like, man.
So I was thinking about it.
And Dean too, my guy, he posted something about the new date on my site.
And when he did that, they was like, well, that means that you admitted, that
you agreed to it.
I didn't, but okay.
That's how it goes.
I'll be that guy.
You know, I don't back out of nothing.
It ain't like I'm scared of Mike Tyson because he's Mike Tyson.
It's just that I know that in six weeks, he had no chance to deal with me.
You know what I mean?
In 12 weeks, well, he'd make it a little bit.
He'd have a little bit better chance to deal with me, but his chance is still
going to be rough.
But it's going to be better than it would have been in six weeks because six
weeks, he didn't have a chance.
Now, during the time where you were off, were you working out?
Of course.
Were you still staying fit?
Because you always stayed slim.
You looked good.
I have to work out because I train a lot of guys.
And when you train guys, for me, I like to not only just teach them, I like to
also give them an example.
The best example is the best that I think did what I'm teaching them.
And I want to teach them what I learned and what my style was.
So I like to be able to demonstrate by example, lead by example.
So do you have young guys that fight in your style?
They're trying to.
It's hard to say they're fighting my style.
And really, I don't really necessarily teach them to fight like me.
My style is not necessarily just me.
My style means that you know how to counter everything.
You know offense, you know defense, you know footwork, you know everything.
Every aspect of boxing is what my style is.
Now, all the craziness, that's your individual person.
Your DNA will decide what you do with that.
What I do is, I try to make guys comfortable and to give them every opportunity
to execute on another guy's mistakes.
If I can make you do that and have you prepare, always prepare for the next
move, then that's my style.
Your style required ex