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Jones had been averaging just over four points and 21 minutes per game up to that point. The game ended at 4:08 PM, giving Jones just over 6 hours between sports, as his fight started at 10:39 PM. Jones told reporters after the game that he "felt good." [4]
Jones did not score a knockdown during the fight, but the rounds were so lopsided in Jones' favor that all three judges scored several rounds 10–8 in Jones favor. The end came after a particularly lopsided sixth in which Jones landed 21 punches to Woods' zero, the fight was stopped midway through after Woods' corner, having seen enough, waved ...
The Jones–Brannon bout was supplemented with a WBA welterweight title fight featuring champion Ike Quartey defending against challenger Oba Carr. Jones explained that his decision to hold the event was because "people are always talking about athletes being selfish. I want people to understand we're not robots; we're human beings". [2] [3]
Three months after winning the WBA light heavyweight title after defeating Lou Del Valle in his previous fight in July 1998, Roy Jones Jr. announced in early October that he would make the first defense of the newly unified titles (having been promoted to full WBC champion after the controversial demotion of former champion Graciano Rocchigiani) the following month against the reigning WBO ...
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 ...
Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. got into the ring again at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday at a combined age of 105 … and it wasn’t bad. It wasn’t scored officially, but the celebrity ...
On February 6, 2023, Jorge Masvidal announced on The MMA Hour that Roy Jones Jr. would face former UFC Lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in a professional boxing match on April 1, 2023. Masvidal also announced on the co-main event that former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort would be facing former Strikeforce Middleweight champion ...
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