- Born
- Nickname
- Jr.
- Height1.80 m
- Roy Levesta Jones Jr. is an American former professional boxer, commentator, and trainer who holds dual American and Russian citizenship. He competed in boxing from 1989 to 2018, and held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight, and is the only boxer in history to start his professional career at light middleweight and go on to win a heavyweight title. As an amateur, he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the light middleweight division after one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseNatlyn Jones(? - present)
- ChildrenRoy Jones IIIDeAndre JonesDeShaun Jones
- Referring to himself in the third person tense.
- He is self managed and has steered his pro career without the aid of a promoter.
- 1987 Golden Gloves Champion - Welterweight
- Children: twin boys DeShaun and DeAndre, Roy III.
- Told Howard Stern on his radio show that he fights roosters.
- Won IBF middleweight crown by beating Bernard Hopkins in 1993; moved up to super middleweight and won IBF title from James Toney in 1994; moved up to light heavyweight division winning WBC (in 1997), WBA (1998) and IBF titles.
- Roy Jones don't play that 'You hit me and I'll hit you.' I hit you and you don't hit me back. I'll fight toe-to-toe, to the death if I have to, but only if I have to. So far I've never had to.
- One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over; it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.
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