Roy Jones Jr.
American boxer (born 1969)
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Key Takeaways
- Roy Levesta Jones Jr.
- He held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight.
- From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship at light heavyweight.
- He is the only fighter in CompuBox history to have his opponent not land a single punch for an entire round.
- He is also a three-time winner of the Best Boxer ESPY Award (1996, 2000 and 2003).
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American former professional boxer. He 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.
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 and only boxer to win the heavyweight title starting his career as a junior middleweight, and the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship 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. He is the only fighter in CompuBox history to have his opponent not land a single punch for an entire round. The Ring magazine named him the Fighter of the Year in 1994 and the World Boxing Hall of Fame named him the Fighter of the Year in 2003. He is also a three-time winner of the Best Boxer ESPY Award (1996, 2000 and 2003). The Boxing Writers Association of America and The Sporting News named him as the Fighter of the Decade for the 1990s.
Early life
Roy Jones Jr. was born to a family with a boxing tradition. His father, Roy Jones Sr., was a Vietnam war veteran who was awarded a Bronze Star for valor after he rescued another soldier. Jones Sr. was a middleweight boxer as well.
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