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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. Clinton Woods, billed as Rumble at the Rose Garden, was a professional boxing match contested on September 7, 2002 for the WBA, WBC, IBF, IBO, WBF, IBA, NBA and The Ring light heavyweight titles.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. 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.
Instead Jones signed to fight former light heavyweight champion Virgil Hill in a 12-round non-title fight at a 177 1/2 lb catchweight. HBO had been set to broadcast a bout between Ike Quartey and Pernell Whitaker , but following Whitaker testing positive for drugs, Jones agreed to face Hill to replace it.