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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 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 ...
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In his previous 46 fights, only Reggie Johnson had scored a knockdown over Toney. After the knockdown, Jones would continue to dictate the pace of the fight, constantly using his speed to land combinations and avoid Toney's offense. When the fight ended and went to the judges' scorecards, all three had different scores, all with Jones ahead.
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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 ...
Following his August 1997 victory over Montell Griffin, Roy Jones Jr. was linked to his WBC mandatory Michael Nunn. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, in November 1997 he vacated his belt to move up to heavyweight with a $6,000,000 deal to face former undisputed champion Buster Douglas on the table. [ 6 ]