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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.
Ruiz's promoter Don King had spent much of 2002 negotiating with Jones in an effort to get him to agree to move up to heavyweight and challenge Ruiz. In November 1997 he had given up his light heavyweight title in order to move up to heavyweight with a $6,000,000 deal to face former undisputed champion Buster Douglas on the table. [4]
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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
We are taking this fight because we know we can beat Roy Jones. We took this fight because we know Julio is going to win." [9] [10] Despite being a 20 to 1 favourite to win, Jones rejected any suggestion that he would be taking González lightly saying "The minute you relax is the minute you lose". [11]