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Roy Jones Jr.
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American former professional boxer that competed from 1989 to 2018, and again in 2023. He 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.
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Born 16 January 1969 · Q955619
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Yahoo! Sports: Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather Jr's Beef Explained
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2024· 1 entry
Jones announced his son Deandre had committed suicide at age 32 two nights prior
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2023· 1 entry
At the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the hometown of Pettis
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded International Boxing Hall of Fame (2022).
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2017· 2 entries
Jones announced that he would return to the Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida to headline the Island Fights 46 on February 8, 2018
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After Miguel Cotto's farewell fight re-iterated his desire to continue boxing
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2016· 2 entries
David Feldman Promotions confirmed a fight between Jones and undefeated bare-knuckle fighter and former world title challenger Bobby Gunn would be announced for February 17, 2017, for the vacant World Boxing Foundation C
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Jones fought in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Celebrity Theatre against 33-year-old MMA fighter Vyron Phillips, who had won the right to fight him after having been selected through a vote on Facebook
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2015· 3 entries
It was announced that Jones would be fighting former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli, 35, who had a career record of 40 wins and 7 losses, for the WBA 'super' world cruiserweight title
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Jones scored his 62nd professional victory and 45th knockout win by defeating Eric Watkins via 6th-round KO
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On August 19, 2015, Roy Jones Jr. met with Vladimir Putin in Sevastopol, Crimea, to ask for Russian citizenship.
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2014· 1 entry
Jones defeated Hany Atiyo via 1st-round KO after 75 seconds
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2013· 1 entry
Jones defeated Zine Eddine Benmakhlouf (17–3–1, 8 KOs) by unanimous decision for the vacant WBU cruiserweight title at the Dynamo Palace of Sports in Krylatskoye in Moscow, Russia
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2011· 1 entry
In Atlanta, snapping a three-match losing streak, and winning the Universal Boxing Organisation (UBO) Intercontinental cruiserweight championship
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2010· 2 entries
At the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, 17 years after their first fight
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And HBO brought him back the next year as their analyst for Boxing After Dark
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2009· 2 entries
Following an extensive pre-fight delay due to hand wrap protests, Danny Green defeated Jones via first-round TKO
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Jones beat former super middleweight champion Jeff Lacy (25–2, 17 KOs) in 10 rounds after Lacy's corner stopped the fight
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2008· 1 entry
Jones faced former three-weight world champion Félix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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2007· 1 entry
At the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi
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2005· 1 entry
And the Jermain Taylor–Bernard Hopkins rematch on December 3, 2005
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2004· 3 entries
Jones attempted to win the IBF light heavyweight title from Glen Johnson in a match in Memphis, Tennessee
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Jones formed a group, Body Head Bangerz and released an album
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And came into this fight having lost six of his last ten bouts
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2003· 6 entries
Defeated Antonio Tarver to retain the IBO and The Ring Light Heavyweight Championships, win Tarver's WBC title, and win the vacant WBA (Unified) title
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Awarded WBA World Light Heavyweight Champion (2003).
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Awarded WBA World Heavyweight Champion (2003).
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Awarded WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion (2003).
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At the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Jones defeated John Ruiz, the man who defeated an aging Evander Holyfield, for the WBA Heavyweight title in front of 15,300 fans
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Becoming the first and only boxer to win the heavyweight title starting his career as a junior middleweight
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2002· 2 entries
Jones retained his title by knocking out Australian boxer Glen Kelly in seven rounds
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Released album “Round One: The Album”.
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded The Ring World Light Heavyweight Champion (2001).
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With his album, titled Round One: The Album and the debut single, "Y'All Must've Forgot"
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Jones released Round One: The Album, a rap CD
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded IBO World Light Heavyweight Champion (1999).
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Awarded IBF World Light Heavyweight Champion (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded WBA World Light Heavyweight Champion (1998).
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Awarded The Ring magazine Knockout of the Year (1998).
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Awarded WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion (1998).
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1997· 4 entries
Earned Silver Olympic Order (1997).
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Awarded WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion (1997).
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Jones had his first professional loss, a disqualification against Montell Griffin (26–0, 18 KOs) at the Taj Majal Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey
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Found that, although the offending judges had been wined and dined by South Korean organizers, there was no evidence of corruption in the boxing events in Seoul
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1996· 2 entries
After documents belonging to East Germany's Stasi secret police revealed reports of judges being paid to vote for South Korean boxers
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Jones maintained his winning ways, defeating Merqui Sosa by knockout in two and future world champion Eric Lucas in round 11
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1995· 1 entry
Jones defended his super middleweight title successfully multiple times
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1994· 5 entries
Jones was set to face undefeated IBF super middleweight Champion James Toney, who was ranked highly in the "pound for pound" rankings
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Awarded The Ring magazine Fighter of the Year (1994).
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Awarded IBF World Super Middleweight Champion (1994).
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Jones beat Danny "Popeye" Garcia by knockout in six, then retained his IBF title against Thomas Tate in two rounds at Las Vegas on May 27
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And the World Boxing Hall of Fame named him the Fighter of the Year in 2003
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded IBF World Middleweight Champion (1993).
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1989· 1 entry
Knocking out Ricky Randall in two rounds in Pensacola at the Bayfront Auditorium
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1985· 1 entry
To move up in weight and claim a major heavyweight championship in his first fight in the division
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-01-16.
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