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Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II, billed as The Rivals, was a professional boxing match contested on April 3, 2010. [1] The fight was a rematch of the May 22, 1993 bout between the two where Jones defeated Hopkins for the IBF middleweight title.
Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins (50–5–1, 32 KOs) met in a rematch bout, on April 3, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, 17 years after their first fight. [108] Jones entered with a record of 5–5 in his previous ten bouts dating back to May 2004 whilst Hopkins came in 4–1 since June 2006.
Bernard Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed championship [a] at middleweight from 2001 to 2005, and the lineal championship at light heavyweight from 2011 to 2012.
Pages in category "Boxing matches involving Roy Jones Jr." The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Roy Jones Jr. vs. Bernard Hopkins;
May 22 – Roy Jones Jr. defeats Bernard Hopkins by unanimous decision to win the vacated IBF middleweight title. September 10 – Julio César Chávez and Pernell Whitaker's fight for the WBC welterweight title ends in a controversial draw, despite Whitaker seemingly dominating the fight.
The fight took place in RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, was Bowe's second defense of the title he had won from Evander Holyfield in November 1992, and was the main event of a card that included a fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins for the vacant IBF middleweight championship, which Jones won.
Having opened 2002 with a dominating victory over his IBF-mandated challenger Glen Kelly in early February, unified light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. mulled his next fight. Cable network HBO pushed Jones to face long-time middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, whom he had previously defeated nine years earlier, but Jones refused to budge ...
Mayweather Jr.'s WBC and The Ring welterweight titles: Mayweather Jr. wins via 10th–round TKO (#6) Bernard Hopkins vs. (#5) Winky Wright: Jul 21, 2007: Hopkins' The Ring light heavyweight title: Hopkins wins via UD (116-112, 117-111, 117-111) (#6) Érik Morales vs. (#5) Manny Pacquiao II Jan 21, 2006 – Pacquiao wins via 10th–round TKO