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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 ...
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. ... Subsequently, Jones was disqualified and lost his title. At the time of ...
Jones and Griffin had previously fought earlier in 1997 on March 21. Jones, who was the number one ranked pound-for-pound fighter in all of boxing, was making the first defense of the WBC light heavyweight title he had won on November 22, 1996 after defeating Mike McCallum against the undefeated Montell Griffin, who held the WBU light heavyweight title and was the top ranked light heavyweight ...
After his 1996 win over Toney, Griffin landed a shot at WBC light-heavyweight title holder Roy Jones Jr. Griffin handed Jones his first professional defeat via a disqualification. A frustrated Jones dropped Griffin with a series of hard and fast, head and body punches in round nine, and then hit him again twice on the head after Griffin had ...
Jones Jr. wins via 12-round unanimous decision (120-107, 120-107, 120-107) Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike McCallum , billed as Fire on Ice , was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1996 for the interim WBC light heavyweight championship. [ 2 ]
Two months ahead of their scheduled head-to-head, boxer Roy Jones Jr. is admitting he may have “made a mistake” when he agreed to fight in an exhibition with former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson.
At the time of her admission and subsequent guilty plea, Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal. [92] The case against BALCO covered more than 20 top level athletes, including Jones's ex-husband, shot putter C.J. Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones' first child.
Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr.’s son, DeAndre, has died by suicide. He was 32, a representative confirmed to NBC News. “Unfortunately, my son DeAndre took his life on Saturday,” Jones, 55 ...