Roy Jones Jr & Emanuel Steward were "On The Ropes" - NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND! 7/13

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I didn't think it was boring or pointless at all. He actually spent a great deal of time reflecting on his own career as a boxer, which I found very interesting.

That aside, him and Jenna were engaged in a great back-and-forth, and Jenna easily got the best of him on facts, which I personally found most entertaining during the better part of the first half hour of the interview.

He didn't really do that. Well, obviously there was Pacquiao-bashing, but I thought Roger had some truly interesting and insightful things to say.

:smoke

 

This was an excerpt from today's edition of "On the Ropes Boxing Radio"
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JENNA: Well Roger, Manny Pacquiao has an upcoming fight. His upcoming fight is against Antonio Margarito at 151 pounds.

MAYWEATHER: He’s going to get his ass whopped, too. No, no. He’s got to weigh like 150 pounds I believe, don’t he?

JENNA: 151 is what it’s contracted at.

MAYWEATHER: I know he’s got to make some weight. I knew the man had to make that weight. I knew that. Well we’ll see what happens with him. It’s the only way we’re going to know.

JENNA: So how do you see that fight going? He’s going up. You’re saying he should never be battling these guys at 147. Now he’s going up to 151 against a guy who’s been a natural welterweight his whole career.

MAYWEATHER: Wait, wait, wait! 151? What weight class is that?

JENNA: I will admit, that is a catch weight, but Antonio Margarito is a natural welterweight.

MAYWEATHER: Like I told you, everybody Pacquiao has ever truly beaten, he’s fought them at a catch weight. He fought Cotto at a catch weight, he fought De La Hoya at a catch weight, he fought Ricky Hatton at a catch weight. Every fight he’s fought, he fought them at a catch weight, period.

JENNA: The Joshua Clottey fight was at 147.

MAYWEATHER: Listen, listen, listen, listen. When you say a catch weight, a catch weight is when the guy weights in, boom. That’s what weight he has to weigh when he weighs in. Boom, like that. Then they can’t go over a certain weight before the fight happens. That’s how Pacquiao fights them dudes at that weight. Oh, you got to weigh 144 pounds. He didn’t fight De La Hoya at 147. He fought De La Hoya at 145. That’s what the weight was. It wasn’t 47. It was 45. Same thing with Ricky Hatton too, he will never fight dudes at 147 pounds. They are 147 pounders, but he never fought them at 147. If he really wanted to fight De La Hoya, he should have fought De La Hoya at 154 because De La Hoya fought at 154 way long before he came back down to 145 pounds.

JENNA: Well Roger, I will agree there that 154 pounds was Oscar’s natural weight, but the Ricky Hatton fight was fought at 140 pounds. That was Ricky Hatton’s natural weight for most of his career.

MAYWEATHER: Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, Ricky Hatton was no 140 pounds. He was 147 pounds.

JENNA: No, it was for the junior welterweight championship at 140 pounds.

MAYWEATHER: But Ricky Hatton already fought my nephew at 147 pounds! Sh*t! (laughs) Like I told you, those fights were fought at a weight, boom. They were fought at a weight that them dudes can’t even make, period. He fought them at a weight. All he does is fight fighters at a catch weight. He never fights them at their real weight. It don’t make no difference. I’m not saying he’s a bad fighter, though.

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For those of you interested in the complete interview transcript:
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=25394&more=1