Roy Jones Jr chats with Andre Ward and talks about how he views Xander Zayas following his stoppage loss to Boots Ennis, reasoning that Zayas can come back to world champion status once he does some mental healing with the help of a professional.
“Well, I’m going to be honest with you. He needs to see a sports psychologist first,” Jones said of Zayas coming back. “If he’s smart, he goes see a sports psychologist, get his mind back right. I’m just being real with you, because you got to turn back on your
brain — see, this is what people don’t understand about prizefighting and this is where it’s changed so much at. In a prizefight, in your mind, if you’re going to be a real prizefighter, you got to be willing to kill or die.
“You got to have a team that understands how to save you from yourself…He’s got to go back to a sports psychologist first to put that [kill or be killed mentality] back in his mind, because once that’s been broken that has to be fixed. A lot of time when people get broken, they don’t go back and fix [their mentality]…If it gets fixed psychologically, he can come back and be world champion again because he has the tools, he has the skills.
“He got all the goods, he just got to go get that part where he got broken, which is what some people call quitting, he got to go get that fixed psychologically.”
