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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 ...
Jones' previous loss had come via disqualification against Montell Griffin in 1997, a loss which was avenged by Jones with a first round knockout of Griffin in the rematch later that year. The manner of Jones' loss to Tarver was arguably the biggest surprise in boxing since James "Buster" Douglas had knocked out Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990 ...
Jones Jr. wins via 12 round unanimous decision (119–108, 117–110, 118–109) James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr. , billed as The Uncivil War , was a professional boxing match held on November 18, 1994, for the IBF super middleweight championship.
Thinking he had picked up the knockout victory, Jones began to celebrate with his corner, but Perez then announced that he had disqualified Jones for the illegal blow, giving Jones his first professional loss and making Griffin the new WBC light heavyweight champion. [3] HBO's unofficial scorer Harold Lederman had Jones ahead 76-75 after eight ...
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 ...
Jones Jr. wins via 12–round unanimous decision (116–112, 117–111, 118–110) John Ruiz vs. Roy Jones Jr. , billed as Never Take A Heavyweight Lightly , was a professional boxing match contested on March 1, 2003 for the WBA heavyweight championship. [ 2 ]
The weight class allowed boxers of up to 71 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 20 September to 2 October 1988. 36 boxers from 36 nations competed. [1] 19-year-old Roy Jones Jr. of the U.S. dominated his opponents, never losing a single round en route
Hill had been out of the ring since his loss to WBO titleholder Dariusz Michalczewski in June 1997. In March Graciano Rocchigiani defeated Michael Nunn to win the WBC title that Jones vacated, with its president Jose Sulaiman installing Jones as his mandatory challenger, naming him a "champion in recess". Jones was a 6–1 favourite to win.