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

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Regarding a potential fight against one of the Klitschko brothers:

“I’ve been trying to fight these guys for seven years. These guys have no desire to fight me because they know what time it is. When I saw them last year at the Arreola fight, they deliberately walked the other way. They walked the other way when they saw me because they know. They were so God damned sacred of me they thought I was going to jump them right there. Everybody thinks I’m going to fight them on the spot. I ain’t going to throw a punch at all, period! I want to get paid in the ring. I want to knock their asses out in the ring. To anybody who thinks the Klitschko sisters are the best, these guys are garbage. They stay in their country. Garbage!”

Regarding the upcoming fights for each of the Klitschko brothers:

“I don’t care who they fight. I don’t care! They’re probably fighting garbage cans. I ain’t never heard about them. I don’t care about them. I’m not going to chase them because everybody knows there is only one heavyweight champion and that’s me. One thing that’s going to be impossible is to insist we’re going to fight. I’m going to worry about me. I’m not going to worry about what they’re doing.”

On whether he believes Wladimir ducked him when he decided to face Hasim Rahman at the time when Toney had a TKO3 win over Rahman:

“Yeah, but everybody knows what it is. The guy slacked out. Hasim Rahman is supposed to be a tough guy. I beat him down. He’s pretty decent guy. What kind of fighter pulls **** like that? I fought whoever right here and was willing to go through hell. These guys pick fights like cowards. They’re nothing. They’re garbage.”

His views on WBA heavyweight champion David Haye:

“I call him David Gay. He’s gay. You know what I’m saying? He’s gay. It’s the same old stuff. He ain’t fighting nobody. I heard he’s fighting Povetkin. That’s what I heard of last night. He’s fighting Povetkin, somebody who nobody ever heard of, somebody who’s trained by the mouth of Teddy Atlas who can’t explain nothing unless it’s superficial. I’ll say it once again, they’re nothing. They’re nothing. There is nothing there. If you want to fight me you got to come over here. I’m chasing these dead ends. I’m not chasing them. I refuse to chase these guys. I’m going to fight with my title over here. I’m not worried about them. Titles don’t make James Toney. James Toney makes them. I won every belt there is so it doesn’t matter. The heavyweight division is the worst of all time. The biggest fight in the division couldn’t happen because they won’t step up.”

On whether he feels he needs to fight his way up the rankings to get a title shot with one of the champions:

“You don’t understand what I’m saying. I don’t care about that. I don’t care about being ranked in the organizations. I’m only trying to defend my title. That’s it. The only way it’s going to happen is if the fans go out there and call for it and you in the media go out there and talk about it. Then maybe it would have hope. That’s what it’s going to take. This is not the 60s or 70s where real fighters fight any more. This is all put on by newspaper people like yourselves.”