Roy Jones Jr. On Getting Robbed in the Olympics

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. In the Korean fighter. Fights and hood. 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. You jaw drop. 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 is the best boxer here now wearing a gold medal? Yeah. It was bad, but it also was in one way and made people really root for you. It was a blessing in disguise. And I understood that the second day, I think I might've cried the whole first day, but the second day, well, I didn't cry 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 give another one. But he said, no, I know I didn't win it, but it wasn't my fault. It was the judges. I shook his hand and I left. I never had another bad feeling towards him because he didn't do it. You feel me? You have to understand what it's called. 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 feeling. And look who I met 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 wasn't a question. Not at all. There was no debate. I never saw a single person that made an argument that he won. It was all you. 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 way of making me not put my life on idle, but turn me up on high. I had no clue what he was doing, but that's why you just trust in 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 leap in 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 really doing it. Episodes of the Joe Rogan experience are now free on Spotify. That's right. Free from September 1st to December 1st. They're going to be available everywhere, but after December 1st, they will only be available on Spotify, but they will be free. That includes the video. The video will also be there. It'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Just go download Spotify. Much love. Bye bye.