Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In his following fight, which was Jones' first fight against Tarver, Jones was clearly weakened and slower in the ring after losing 24 pounds to get back down to the 175 pound light heavyweight limit, while Tarver, who had captured the WBC and IBF titles Jones had vacated after his WBA heavyweight title win against John Ruiz in March, was able ...
Jones did not score a knockdown during the fight, but the rounds were so lopsided in Jones' favor that all three judges scored several rounds 10–8 in Jones favor. The end came after a particularly lopsided sixth in which Jones landed 21 punches to Woods' zero, the fight was stopped midway through after Woods' corner, having seen enough, waved ...
On March 1, 2003, then-undisputed light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. picked up a historic victory over John Ruiz that made him the WBA heavyweight champion. Following this, Jones' WBA, WBC, IBF, IBA, NBA and WBF light heavyweight titles were vacated and Antonio Tarver met former WBC light-heavyweight champion Montell Griffin (the only man to hold a victory over Jones at that point) to ...
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning the light middleweight silver medal ...
Three months after winning the WBA light heavyweight title after defeating Lou Del Valle in his previous fight in July 1998, Roy Jones Jr. announced in early October that he would make the first defense of the newly unified titles (having been promoted to full WBC champion after the controversial demotion of former champion Graciano Rocchigiani) the following month against the reigning WBO ...
Roy Jones Jr. and his family are in mourning following the death of the boxing legend's son, DeAndre, on Saturday.Jones Jr. took to X (formerly Twitter) to share the tragic news, writing ...
Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr. III, billed as No Excuses, was a professional boxing match contested on October 1, 2005 for Tarver's IBO and The Ring light heavyweight championships. [ 1 ] The fight's bill comes from a remark made by Tarver to Jones at center ring after the referees' instructions before the second fight.
Seemingly everyone — Canelo Álvarez, Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia and Roy Jones Jr. — wants to fight Jake Paul after the influencer beat a 58-year-old Mike Tyson.