Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including...
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Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as "Lockdown Knockdown", was an exhibition boxing match between former undisputed heavyweight world champion Mike...
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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...
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Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as Battle of the Superpowers, was a boxing light-heavyweight superfight. The fight was held on November 8, 2008...
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Mike Tyson (section Tyson vs. Jones)
Tyson had signed a contract to face former four-division world champion, Roy Jones Jr., in an eight-round exhibition fight. Mixed martial arts coach Rafael...
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James Toney vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as The Uncivil War, was a professional boxing match held on November 18, 1994, for the IBF super middleweight championship...
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John Ruiz vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as Never Take A Heavyweight Lightly, was a professional boxing match contested on March 1, 2003 for the WBA heavyweight...
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Antonio Tarver, billed as Now It's Personal, was a professional boxing match contested on November 8, 2003 for the vacant WBA (Unified)...
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Jeff Lacy (section Loss to Roy Jones Jr. and beyond)
Lacy suffered a 10th-round technical knockout to Roy Jones Jr. Sixteen months after the loss to Jones Jr., Lacy returned to his hometown of St. Petersburg...
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Félix Trinidad vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as Bring on the Titans, was a professional boxing match contested on January 19, 2008. The non-title bout was...
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Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. II, billed as The Rivals, was a professional boxing match contested on April 3, 2010. The fight was a rematch of the...
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Olympics, being awarded victory over Roy Jones Jr. of the United States even though most observers considered that Jones had clearly won. The result was widely...
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Bernard Hopkins (section Hopkins vs. Jones I)
scheduled March 13, 2010, rematch with Roy Jones Jr. The rematch was later postponed as a result of Jones Jr. falling to a first-round technical knockout...
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September to 2 October 1988. 36 boxers from 36 nations competed. 19-year-old Roy Jones Jr. of the U.S. dominated his opponents, never losing a single round en...
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John Ruiz (section Ruiz vs Jones Jr.)
2003, Ruiz was contracted to fight Roy Jones Jr., who at the time was The Ring light heavyweight champion. If Jones was to beat Ruiz in the fight, he would...
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Joe Calzaghe (section Calzaghe vs. Jones Jr.)
case against Calzaghe, claiming that a verbal promise to promote the Roy Jones Jr. fight was broken and that Calzaghe owed him $1.4 million; Calzaghe in...
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middleweight championship bout between American Roy Jones Jr. and South Korean Park Si-Hun, when Roy Jones was denied gold despite being vastly superior...
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Retrieved 13 January 2014. Roy Jones Jr. Says He's the Draw, But it He?, FightHype.com article, Retrieved on 2014-01-08 Tarver v Jones II PPV did 360,000 buys...
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Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr. III, billed as No Excuses, was a professional boxing match contested on October 1, 2005 for Tarver's IBO and The Ring...
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Glen Johnson (boxer) (section Johnson vs. Jones Jr.)
Boxing Writers Association of America for his upset knockout victory over Roy Jones Jr. Throughout his career, Johnson was well known for his exceptionally...
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Glen Johnson was a professional boxing match contested on September 25, 2004 for the IBF light heavyweight championship. In his previous...
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Antonio Tarver (section Tarver vs. Jones I, II)
Tarver won a unanimous decision over Roy Jones Jr. on October 1, 2005, in Tampa, Florida, almost knocking Jones down in the 11th round but also finding...
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staying active and working on a kimura. He then went on to fight for Roy Jones Jr.'s Square Ring Promotions against Jeff Monson. This fight also ended...
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Montell Griffin (section Griffin vs. Jones Jr.)
champion Roy Jones Jr. After his 1996 win over Toney, Griffin landed a shot at WBC light-heavyweight title holder Roy Jones Jr. Griffin handed Jones his first...
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of Bulgaria, Mayweather lost by a controversial decision (similar to Roy Jones Jr.'s highly controversial decision loss to Park Si-hun at the 1988 Summer...
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Antonio Tarver II, billed as More Than Personal, was a professional boxing match contested for the WBA (Unified), WBC, IBA, IBO, The...
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and fought eight-time world champion American Roy Jones Jr. at the Acer Arena in Sydney. Green dropped Jones with a right punch midway through the first...
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Vinny Pazienza, billed as The Devil and Mr. Jones was a professional boxing match contested on June 24, 1995 for the IBF super middleweight...
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have propelled Kostecki into the worldwide light heavyweight ratings, Roy Jones was supposed to face Kostecki in a 10 round bout at Atlas Arena on 30...
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Roy Jones Jr. vs. Mike McCallum, billed as Fire on Ice, was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1996 for the interim WBC light heavyweight...
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