Roy Jones Jr. was born on January 16, 1969 Melvin
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age of 6 young Roy began boxing under the watchful eye of his father Roy Jones
Sr. a Vietnam war veteran and small time pro boxer who came from a family of 13.
As a youngster Jones was filled with serious potential due to a combination of
physical ability, desire and the hard training regime his father had set. Jones
worked his way up through the junior amateur ranks, and in 1988 earned a place
in the United States boxing team for the Soul Olympic Games.
After fighting through the preliminary stages, Jones earned a place in the gold medal
bout against Park Si Hun. Jones was in complete control of the fight, almost
hitting the Korean at will with lead left hooks and counters, but in one of the
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it the gold medal. As a show of good faith, Jones received an award for the best
boxer of the competition, presented at a special ceremony by 50 Korean monks.
After an investigation, two of the judges that scored the bout were banned from
officiating in competition again.
Subsequent of the injustice in Soul, Jones said he would never fight again. But after returning home to Pensacola to
a heroes welcome, and receiving hounary gold medals from across his homeland:
Jones made the decision to turn pro.
On the 6th May, 1989 Denzel
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Ricky Randall at the Pensacola Civic Centre. Jones weighted 157lb for the bout,
and stopped Randall by TKO in round 2.
Although launching his professional career with a series of wins, Jones found himself in a position
whereby his career was stalling- fighting in county fairgrounds and running at a
financial loss. Jr. was being steered by his fathers cautious management, with
title fights being offered but turned down, without Jr. knowing- it seemed Jones
was watching the parade go by.
Things came to a head when Jones Sr. shot- and killed- one of Jones bull-terrier dogs after the passionate breed bit
a little girl. Jr. instantly sacked his father as trainer and manager and
proceeded to hire his former Olympic trainer Alton Merkerson, and decided to
take care of managerial issues himself.
With Jones being his own manager via setting up promotional group Square Ring Inc., he secured a shot at the
vacant IBF Middleweight (160lb) world title. Jones would take on future
great Dan
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publics knowledge, Jones entered the fight with a broken right hard, and despite
his absence, Jones relied on his fathers character building training from early
years to carry him through his most important bout thus far. Despite the injury,
Jones proceeded to win a unanimous decision, 116-112 on all 3 cards to win his
first world title.
After making a defence of his middleweight title against Thomas
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middleweight champion James Lights Out Toney. Toney- at the time- was regarded
as one of, if not the best, pound for pound fighters in the world. Jones went
into the bout a certain underdog, but in the end defied all critics- and even
non critics- predictions by making Toney look inferior on way to a unanimous
decision to make Jones a now two time world champion.
Jones proceeded to defend his IBF super middleweight crown, and on June 15, 1996, completed the
incredible feat of playing a minor league professional basketball
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Lucas) on the same day. Jones marked himself as being a supreme athlete, a black
superman.
Jones next challenge was to move up to the 175lb- light heavyweight division. After defeating Mike McCallum to gain the WBC Interim
world title recognition, Jones was scheduled to fight stocky, 26-0, Montell
Griffin to allow a stamp stating three time world champion. What eventuated was
a controversial and melodramatic two fight series. Jones would lose his
undefeated record by hitting Griffin while the opponent was deemed down for the
count, and therefore disqualified. Jones came out in the second fight possessed
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dismantling Griffin in 1 round leaving no doubt as to whom was the superior
fighter.
After negotiations fell through to meet faded former heavyweight champion Buster Douglas, Jones decided to make a run at cleaning out
the light heavyweight division. Before unifying titles, Jones took on a big
light heavyweight, and former champion, Virgil Hill. Many expected Jones to be
overpowered by Hill, but Jones stopped the fight in round 3 with a body shot
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To unify the light heavyweight belts, Jones would need to get past WBA champion Lou Del
Valle, in which Jones would go on to do- albeit after being put on the canvas by
a shock knock down- in a unanimous decision.
On June 5, 1999 Jones would defeat Reggie Johnson to claim the undisputed- WBA,
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