Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American professional boxer, boxing commentator, boxing trainer, rapper, and actor. He competed in boxing from 1989 to 2018, and held multiple world championships in four weight classes. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the light middleweight division. Jones is considered by many to be one of the best boxers of all time, pound for pound, and left his mark in the sport’s history.
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Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American professional boxer, boxing commentator, boxing trainer, rapper, and actor. He competed in boxing from 1989 to 2018, and held multiple world championships in four weight classes. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the light middleweight division. Jones is considered by many to be one of the best boxers of all time, pound for pound, and left his mark in the sport’s history when he won the WBA heavyweight title in 2003. As of February 2018, Jones holds the record for the most wins in unified light heavyweight title bouts in boxing history, at twelve. His father, Roy Jones Sr., a Vietnam war veteran who was awarded a Bronze Star for valor after he rescued another soldier, was also a middleweight boxer. Jones won the 1984 United States National Junior Olympics in the 119 lb weight division. He was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic Boxing Team, and won the silver medal for the 156-pound weight class in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. He is also a three-time winner of the Best Boxer ESPY Award. The Boxing Writers Association of America named him as the Fighter of the Decade for the 1990s. His quarterfinal match-up with Soviet boxer Yevgeni Zaytsev was the first U. S. –Soviet Olympic bout in 12 years. The final was met with controversy when Jones lost a 2–3 decision to South Korean fighter Park Si-Hun despite pummeling Park for three rounds, landing 86 punches to Park’s 32.
One judge from Uganda, scored the bout as a draw, leaving the outcome to be decided on other criteria. Jones was awarded the Val Barker trophy, which is the best stylistic boxer of the 1988 games, which was given to the winner of each of the bouts. In 1999 he became the undisputed light heavyweight champion by unifying theWBA, WBC, and IBF titles. The Ring magazine named Jones the fighter of the Year in 1994, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame named him the Fighter Of The Year for 2003. He also won the 1986 United. States National Golden Gloves in the 139 lb division, and the 1987 United States. National Golden gloves in the 156 lb division, and ended his career with a 121–13 record. He has a son, also named Roy Jones Jr., who is a professional boxer and a boxer-turned-boxer-actor. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife and two children. He currently works as a boxing commentator and is a boxing trainer and has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, including “The Expendables 3” and “The Hangover”, among others. Jones has also appeared in several reality TV shows and has had a cameo role in the film “The Godfather: Part II”, which was released in 2010.
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