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Born | Roy Levesta Jones Jr. January 16, 1969 Pensacola, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reach | 74 in (188 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total fights | 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins by KO | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Losses | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight. As an amateur boxer he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a light middleweight silver medal.[2][3]
Jones is considered by many to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, pound for pound, and left his mark in the sport's history when he won the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title in 2003, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship[a] at light heavyweight.
As of February 2018, Jones holds the record for the most wins in unified light heavyweight title bouts in boxing history, with twelve. The Ring magazine named him the Fighter of the Year in 1994, and the World Boxing Hall of Fame named him the Fighter of the Year in 2003. He is also a three-time winner of the Best Boxer ESPY Award (1996, 2000, and 2003). The Boxing Writers Association of America named him as the Fighter of the Decade for the 1990s.
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