Q+a Roy Jones Jr.

The 35-year-old former heavyweight and middleweight champion is working as a boxing analyst for HBO.

SI: You were knocked out in each of your last two fights. Have you retired from boxing, or are you on a break?

Jones: I'm just taking a break. I'll decide my future in the spring or summer of 2005.

SI: Won't it be hard to find something else that captures you the way boxing did?

Jones: No. Among other things [I'm doing], the title of my new album is Roy Jones, Jr. Presents: Body Head Bangerz Volume One, and it's coming out this week. I love hip-hop, and I'm going to make sure I succeed.

SI: Are there any goals left for you in boxing?

Jones: No, I really don't think so. The only thing I might consider is going back and winning a cruiserweight title.

SI: So you would be fine retiring right now?

Jones: Oh, yeah. I accomplished all my goals, and once you don't have goals, that's when it's time to stop. That's the problem with me now. I'm like, O.K., what am I doing then? I was the first man in over 100 years to become heavyweight champion of the world as a middleweight champion. That's good enough for me.

SI: In the 1988 Olympics you were robbed of the gold medal. Why did you accept the silver, and where is it?