A terrible and obvious mismatch is a bad thing in the sport of boxing; for numerous reasons. Chief among these reasons is the risk to his health the grossly mismatched fighter faces.
Talk about a head-swiveling knockout. Or a face-contorting knockout. The genuinely frightening KO a young, pre-peak Roy Jones Junior scored over a relative no-name from Uganda, Art Serwano, has been talked about, and re-watched and re-watched ever since it happened a little over 30 years ago.
By Kirk Lang – After a storied career that saw him, among other things, become the first former middleweight champion in 106 years to also win a heavyweight belt, Roy Jones Jr.
Percy Harris, a tall, gifted, and hard-working middleweight who, in his own words, “left his best stuff and was burnt out in the amateurs,” had just 19 pro fights.
A possible comeback may be in the making for Former Champion Roy Jones Jr. He talks about that comeback at cruiserweight in our latest edition of the Last Stand Podcast with Brian Custer.
Roy Jones Jr says Canelo Alvarez has no choice but to go for the kill on Saturday when he faced the fleet of foot Billy Joe Saunders in their 168lb unification clash at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The boxing exhibition trend isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. On top of the possibility of seeing a return bout between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson, under exhibition rules of course, comes talk from Roy Jones of the possibility of him going in with, get this – Joe Calzaghe, Thomas Hearns and Shannon Briggs!
Roy Jones Jr is volunteering to be the opponent for Oscar De La Hoya to face when he makes his comeback on July 3 in an exhibition fight on Triller pay-per-view.
Fight fans the world over are still trying to come to terms with the sad, shocking and wholly unexpected passing of the great Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
By Stephen Campana: “Those whom the gods would destroy they first raise up.” —a variant of a famous quote from the Ancient Greek tragedian Euripides
Every generation has one.