As fans may know, Roy Jones Jr has, for some time, been training Chris Eubank Jr, with the “retired” 51-year-old helping the British middleweight/super-middleweight improve his game and learn as much as he can.
Well, for good or for bad it’s on, it’s official – Mike Tyson Vs. Roy Jones Jr, September 12 in Los Angeles, the eight-round exhibition bout to go out on pay-per-view.
There is a somewhat troubling story that is doing the rounds on the net, and it concerns the once truly great, the once untouchable Roy Jones Jr.
You can add the name of Roy Jones Junior to the seemingly endlessly growing list of veteran fighters willing to get back in the ring in some capacity or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWCLVbHRf8
It’s always hard to comprehend what you have just seen on the rare occasion when a great, seemingly untouchable and unbeatable fighter is stunned to defeat, losing his perfect record as a result of the result no-one saw coming: think Buster Douglas KO Mike Tyson, Lloyd Honeyghan TKO Don Curry, Frankie Randall W12 Julio Cesar Chavez and, in another stunner, the fight that took place 22 years ago today, March 21, 1997, when Montell Griffin upset a peak Roy Jones Jr.
A few days back, MMA star Vitor Belfort called out former multi-weight world ruler Roy Jones Junior, telling TMZ Sports how he would love a boxing match with Jones, providing he can “dirty box.”
Living legend Roy Jones Jr., universally recognized as one of the greatest pound-for-pound boxers of all-time, leads a celebrated quintet of Class of 2018 inductees into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug3d3RvXe68
There have been many monumental boxing upsets in the light-heavyweight division, just as there have been massive upsets in every other weight class in boxing, but can you name a bigger stunner at 175 pounds than the one that took place 14-years ago today?
Now that he’s officially retired from the sport (for now at least) the tributes are coming in for all-time great Roy Jones Junior – and deservedly so.
Superstar and all time great Roy Jones Junior gave his hometown fans something to cheer about last night in Pensacola. The 49 year old living legend, taking part in what was dubbed his final fight, won a wide ten-round UD over a game but outclassed Scott Sigmon.