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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. [107] 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.
Roy Jones Jr. and his family are in mourning following the death of the boxing legend's son, DeAndre, on Saturday.Jones Jr. took to X (formerly Twitter) to share the tragic news, writing ...
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]
After knocking out fellow former champion Virgil Hill in four rounds, in his first bout for 8 months in April, Roy Jones Jr. agreed to challenge WBA champion Lou Del Valle. Del Valle, a former sparring partner to Jones, had won the WBA belt in September 1997 (which had been vacated by Lineal champion Dariusz Michalczewski in July) by stopping ...
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 ...
Boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. announced Monday his son has died by suicide. His son DeAndre was 32 years old, a representative said. In a post on X, Jones, 55, who has captured titles in multiple ...
Roy Jones Jr. vs. Anthony Pettis (also known as Jorge Masvidal’s Gamebred Boxing 4) was a cruiserweight professional boxing match between 4-division world champion Roy Jones Jr. and former WEC and UFC Lightweight Champion Anthony Pettis.
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 ...