Roy Jones Jnr loses his posse thetelegraph. Cancel Save. Fan Feed 1 List of lineal boxing world champions 2 Boxing styles and technique 3 Cruiserweight. Universal Conquest Wiki. Personal information. Nationality : American. Date of birth : January 16, age Personal Statistics.
Reach : 74 in Lua error in package. Boxing career information. Max Alexander. Civic Center , Atlanta, Georgia. Denis Lebedev. Krylatskoe Sport Palace , Moscow. Bernard Hopkins. For IBO Cruiserweight title.
Jeff Lacy. Mississippi Coast Coliseum , Biloxi , Mississippi. Omar Sheika. Civic Center , Pensacola , Florida. For The Ring Light Heavyweight title. Fight at pound catch weight. Anthony Hanshaw. Prince Badi Ajamu. Qwest Arena , Boise , Idaho. Antonio Tarver. Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida. FedEx Forum , Memphis , Tennessee.
John Ruiz. Won WBA Heavyweight title. Rose Garden , Portland , Oregon. American Airlines Arena , Miami , Florida. Won vacant The Ring Light Heavyweight title. Staples Center , Los Angeles , California. Derrick Harmon. Ice Palace , Tampa , Florida. Eric Harding. Conseco Fieldhouse , Indianapolis , Indiana. David Telesco. Reggie Johnson. Grand Casino Biloxi , Biloxi , Mississippi. Richard Frazier.
Foxwoods Resort Casino , Mashantucket , Connecticut. Lou Del Valle. Virgil Hill. Montell Griffin. Disqualified for hitting a downed opponent. Bryant Brannon. Eric Lucas. Coliseum , Jacksonville , Florida. Tony Thornton. Vinny Pazienza. Antoine Byrd. James Toney. Thomas Tate. Retained IBF Middleweight title. Casino Magic , Bay St. Louis , Mississippi. Won vacant IBF Middleweight title. Glenn Wolfe. Caesar's Palace , Las Vegas , Nevada.
All Football. Sport Boxing Matt Penn. Most read in Boxing. Fury seriously considering retiring from boxing after epic Wilder trilogy fight. This was a round non-title fight. Jones knocked out Hill with a right to the body. It was the first knockout loss of Hill's career. Del Valle was a sparring partner for Jones in There was a crowd of 4, Del Valle was cut over the left eye from an accidental butt in round seven. Del Valle put Jones down for the first time in his professional career with a left cross in round eight.
Grant was the WBO middleweight champion. Jones floored Grant once in the sixth round and once in the tenth. Grant's trainer, Russ Anber, threw in the towel after the second knockdown. Jones floored Frazier once in the first round and once in the second. Jones landed 39 of 92 punches and Frazier connected on only 4 of It was mandatory. I can't tell Roy to give up his title.
I take full responsibility. He was the 1 contender. It's not my job to tell these people sanctioning bodies what to do. There was a crowd of 9, at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum. Johnson was knocked down once in the first round and once in the third. Jones became the first Undisputed World Light Heavyweight Champion since Michael Spinks relinquished the title in to campaign as a heavyweight. This was the first fight card in the year history of Radio City Music Hall.
There was a sellout crowd of 5, Everybody said I should cancel the fight but I said, 'I can't. I've got a big date in New York. There was a crowd of 13, Hall was the interim WBA light heavyweight champion. Jones floored Hall twice in the first round. Referee Wayne Kelly stopped the fight in the eleventh round with Hall taking a beating in Jones' corner. Many felt the bout should have been stopped sooner.
HBO commentator Larry Merchant said, "The referee ought to be pistol whipped for allowing that to go on. Harding was ranked 1 by the IBF. According to Gould Media, which tracks figures in the pay-per-view industry, the fight did between , and , buys. Harding tore his left bicep while throwing a punch in the second round. There was a crowd of more than 14, Jones busted Harmon's right eardrum in the tenth round, and Harmon's corner stopped the fight before the start of round eleven.
There were no knockdowns in the fight. There was a crowd of 20, Gonzalez was knocked down in rounds one, five and twelve. Kelly was ranked 1 by the IBF. Kelly was down once in the third round, once in the sixth and once in the seventh. In the seventh round, Jones put both hands behind his back. As Kelly moved in behind a jab, Jones went over the jab with a right to the head.
Kelly went down and was counted out. Jones had recently been awarded the light heavyweight title of The Ring Magazine. The magazine stopped giving belts to world champions in , but began again in According to Compubox, Jones Jr. Woods was ranked 1 by the WBC. There was a crowd of 16, Woods' corner threw in the towel.
Ruiz had no guarantee. There was a crowd of 15, Jones became the seventh boxer in history to win world titles in four weight divisions. Jones became the first former world middleweight titlist since Bob Fitzsimmons in to win a world heavyweight title. Jones never defended the WBA heavyweight title. He relinquished the belt and returned to the light heavyweight division. Six weeks after defeating John Ruiz to win the WBA heavyweight title on March 1, , the WBA received written confirmation from Jones that he would keep the heavyweight title and relinquish his light heavyweight title.
However, he was unable to secure the fights he wanted at heavyweight. Promoter Murad Muhammad said, "We worked on a Holyfield fight and it fell through. We worked on a Tyson fight and it fell through. We wanted Lennox Lewis, but he's not fighting. Jones finally decided to return to light heavyweight and fight Tarver, who had won two of Jones' vacated light heavyweight titles.
Jones was an favorite. Tim Smith of the New York Daily News reported: "He [Jones] had to lose 25 pounds to move down from heavyweight to make the pound limit to face Tarver. Five days before the match, Jones weighed pounds. He was gaunt and drawn at the weigh-in. He sat slumped on a stool while he waited to step on the scales. Once he climbed into the ring, Jones was drained after four rounds and survived mainly because Tarver decided to counter instead of pressing the action. Jones became the first reigning heavyweight title holder in history to move down in weight and win a light heavyweight title.
The fight generated , pay-per-view buys. There was a crowd of 10, Jones blamed his subpar performance in the first fight on difficulty making weight. During the prefight instructions at center ring, referee Jay Nady asked if anyone had any questions. He also won different titles at other weight categories in his career.
In , Jones Jr made his comeback to the sport, fighting fellow legend Mike Tyson in an exhibition bout. He has since said he will continue to fight in Prior to his exemplary professional career, Roy Jones Jr had a fantastic amateur career as well. He turned professional in and boasts of a professional record of During his time, he fought at four weight classes, winning belts in every single one of them.
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