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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 ...
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
In September 1994, promoter Bob Arum officially announced the highly anticipated title fight between undefeated fighters James Toney and Roy Jones Jr. [2] Toney came into the fight as the IBF super middleweight champion, having won the title on February 13, 1993, from Iran Barkley and having since successfully defended the title three times.
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 ...
Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as Lockdown Knockdown, was an exhibition boxing match between former undisputed heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson and former four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr. The bout took place at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 28, 2020, and was sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission ...
Roy Jones Jr. [10] IBF Middleweight: May 22, 1993: Bernard Hopkins: UD 12/12 IBF Super middleweight: Oct 21, 1993: James Toney: UD 12/12 WBC Light heavyweight: Jan 13, 1997 Interim promoted [11] WBC Light heavyweight – (2) Aug 7, 1997: Montell Griffin: KO 1/12 WBC Light heavyweight – (3) Jun 1998 Reinstated
In early September 1996, it was announced that Roy Jones Jr., the reigning IBF super middleweight champion and The Ring magazine's top ranked pound-for-pound fighter, would face Bryant Brannon, the IBF's number-one ranked super middleweight challenger, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden the following month.
Jones was regarded as one of the best fighters in the sport and was ranked at number two on The Ring pound-for-pound list (Pernell Whitaker was number one). As a result, Pazienza was installed as a massive underdog with Jones being listed as a 12–1 favorite, though one Las Vegas oddsmaker listed the odds at 100–1 in Jones' favor. Pazienza ...