Roy Jones Jr leaves Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather off his boxing Mount Rushmore

Roy Jones Jr named the fighters he’d include in his boxing Mount Rushmore – but there was no room for Mike Tyson or Floyd Mayweather.

The 53-year-old ring legend went on former NFL star Shannon Sharpe’s YouTube channel ‘Club Shay Shay’ to discuss his 2020 exhibition bout with ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’.

Host Sharpe – a former defensive tight end for the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens – asked him a number of questions related to boxing.

Naturally, his fighting career was a topic of conversation and so too were his picks for the top four fights in the sport’s history.

Jones Jr, after being put on the spot, said: “I have to be honest with you, I’d be at the top of my list, so take me out of there.

“I’d put Muhammad Ali at the top, I would probably put Sugar Ray Robinson second, I would probably put Salvador Sanchez third, and I would probably stop there because after that I could take [Sugar Ray] Leonard, [Roberto] Duran, [Julio Cesar] Chavez.”

Sharpe, 53, added: “Hagler?”

Jones, 52, replied: “[Marvin] Hagler would come after that.

“But if you want my top three, that’s my top three. Anything after that, they’re my top three.”

Jones, who is considered by many to be one of the greatest to ever do it, also regards the ’70s as the golden age of boxing.

RJ, like many, also doesn’t think the likes of Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk would have stood much of a chance against some of their predecessors.

He continued: “The reason I say the ’70s is the golden era of boxing is because everybody in the heavyweight division, if they were still around, if you take the top ten from the ’70s and inserted each one of them into today’s top ten, each one would be heavyweight champ right now.

“Because that’s how durable, how rugged,