What was expected to be a classic fight, a testing fight for both men, perhaps even the start of a trilogy, instead turned out to be a one-sided, almost shutout of a fight in favor of Roy Jones Junior.
Like everyone else who watched the fight between light-heavyweights Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night, all-time great Roy Jones has an opinion on what the outcome should have been.
Sometimes in the sport of boxing, it’s how you go out and forget all the great stuff that came before the fall.
In terribly sad news, the son of boxing great, former multi-weight world ruler Roy Jones has committed suicide. Jones, who is understandably devastated over what has happened, took to social media yesterday, the tragic event having taken place on Saturday (June 22).
As fans know, Mike Tyson is out of the Jake Paul fight that was set for July. Tyson was advised by medical experts to withdraw from the fight due to the ulcer flare up episode he had a while back, and we will wait and see if the fight gets a new date.
The exhibition trend continues. Roy Jones is set to fight 230 pound bodybuilder Robert Wilmote tonight. Wilmote, AKA “NDO Champ,” has competed in a number of bodybuilding competitions yet his experience as a boxer is extremely limited.
The great Roy Jones holds many accolades, and he won many titles. Jones has also received plenty of praise over the years, and rightly so.
It’s perhaps quite ironic that, with all of boxing talking about THAT body shot KO scored by Tank Davis over Ryan Garcia – did Garcia quit or did he not – today marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most bone-crunching body shot knockouts of recent memory.
Roy Jones: The Great Who Can’t Quit (But Should)
For younger fans, it’s hard, incomprehensible in fact, to understand how great, how super-special Roy Jones once was.
It was 20 years ago tomorrow; the great Roy Jones Jr, a masterful force at middleweight, at super-middleweight, and at light-heavyweight, was going for the ultimate – a slice of the world heavyweight title.