Jones Sets His Sights On Larger Title Fights

Roy Jones Jr. will fight for the World Boxing Council light-heavyweight championship Friday, but his mind is wandering to bigger goals.

“We’ve got a plan,” Stanley Levin, Jones’ adviser, said Wednesday at a news conference for Jones’ fight at the Ice Palace against the former champion Mike McCallum.

“We’re going to take the cruiserweight title; we’re already working on that,” Levin said, declining to be more specific. “That will give Roy the middleweight, supermiddleweight, light-heavy and cruiserweight titles. And if we can get one of the heavyweight champions in the ring with him, he’ll be a five weight-class champion.”

This may sound like a stretch for Levin, inasmuch as Jones hasn’t even won title No. 3. Yet with a 33-0 record - 29 by knockout - Jones has that effect on people.

In fact, Levin said Jones, who will weigh 174 pounds for Friday’s fight - the heaviest of his career - is willing to swap punches with the cream of the heavyweights, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Micheal Moorer.

“Tell them to come see us,” Levin said. “We’ll take ‘em on.”

Jones, a 27-year-old Pensacola, Fla., native, admits he has contemplated fighting in the heavyweight division. “I’ve thought about it some,” he said. “I would do it.”

McCallum, aware that Jones’ speed is unparalleled for his size, said he wouldn’t count Jones out as a heavyweight. “Most of those guys are slow,” he said. “They hit hard, but they’re slow. So speed is a great asset to have against anybody.”