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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Montell Griffin, billed as The Battle of the Undefeated, was a professional boxing match contested on March 21, 1997 for the WBC light heavyweight championship. [ 1 ] Background
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Boxing matches involving Roy Jones Jr." The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Montell Griffin vs. Roy Jones Jr. II; H.
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 ]
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.