Roy jones jr age
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Roy Jones, Jr. won the Val Barker Award at the 1988 Olympics as the most technically proficient boxer in Seoul. It was given to him as a sort of apology for what was the worst decision in Olympic boxing history. In the final of the light-middleweight class, Jones faced Korean Park Si-Hun, and punished him. There was no doubt that Jones had won every round, and won each convincingly, but at the end the referee raised Park’s hand. Park even apologized, later saying, “I am sorry. I lost the fight. I feel very bad.”
One of the judges later revealed that he felt so badly for the Korean, fighting in front of his hometown fans, that he gave him the vote, feeling it would make the result only 4-1 for Jones. Unfortunately, two other judges did the same thing, given the decision to Park, 3-2.
This did not stop Roy Jones, Jr., who went on to a superb professional career over the next 15 years. He is one of those fighters who held, for a time, the unofficial crown of “best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.” Jones won world titles in eight weight classes, and for multiple organizations,
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Steve’s Boxing Substack
Name: Roy Jones Jr
Nickname: Captain Hook
Date of First Fight: 6th May 1989
Date of Retirement: 8th February 2018
Titles: World titles at middleweight, super-middleweight, light-heavyweight and heavyweight
Biography:
Roy Levesta Jones Jr was born on 16th January 1969 in Pensacola, Florida. His father, Roy Jones Sr, was a disciplinarian who had fought in the Vietnam War. Jones Sr boxed as a middleweight in the 1970s but ended his short career on a losing streak.
He took control of his son’s prospects early on and young Roy excelled as an amateur, winning the Golden Gloves and a gold medal in the 1984 US National Junior Olympics. The Olympics would later cause Jones Jr heartbreak as he lost in the final of the 1988 Seoul Games in what was described as one of the worst decisions of all time.
Turning professional in 1989, Jones raced to 21-0 with 20 KOs before securing a vacant IBF middleweight title shot in 1993 against future great Bernard Hopkins. Jones beat Hopkins on points and soon went on to defeat another great fighter, James
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Roy Jones Jr.
American boxer (born 1969)
"Roy Jones" redirects here. For the English footballer, see Roy Jones (footballer). For the aviator, see Roy F. Jones.
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.[2][3]
Jones is considered by many to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, pound for pound, and left his mark in the sport's history when he won the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title in 2003, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship[a] at light heavyweight.
As of February 2018, Jones holds the record for the most wins in unified light heavyweight title bouts in boxing history, with twelve. The Ring magazine named him the F
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