Roy Jones Jr. Boxing News

Miami/Pensacola, FL (March 17)…Like other avid sports fans across the country, former world champions Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. have made their picks for this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. These two boxing legends are deep in training for their long-awaited rematch “The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II,” which will take [...]

LAS VEGAS (March 16, 2010) – Legendary sports performance management specialist Mackie Shilstone (www.mackieshilstone.com) has a unique perspective into the April 3 Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones, Jr. rematch at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Shilstone has worked closely with both boxers and knows better than anyone what makes each man tick.

By Dan Ambrose: Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) speaking to Greg Leon of Boxing Talk didn’t have much good to say about light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s), saying when asked by Leon whether he thinks that Hopkins has improved “His head is a big bigger, but that’s about it.” Jones later gave [...]

By Kirk Jackson: About 17 years ago the world was witness to a middleweight championship bout between future hall of famers and boxing legends Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. Although Roy Jones would emerge the victor, both fighters would enjoy successful careers inside the ring following their fight.
After beating Hopkins, Jones would take a [...]

By Jim Dower: Boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) seems to be in denial about his 1st round TKO loss to Danny Green on December 2nd. In that fight, Green, the IBO cruiserweight champion, rushed across the ring and opened up with a barrage of heavy shots while Jones covered up in his [...]

By Chris Williams: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, there are a number of possible fights that Golden Boy Promotions and Square Ring are looking to put together for the undercard of the April 3rd fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins. As of now, the following fights could wind up on the undercard: [...]

By Jim Dower: Boxing great Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) had some amusing comments to make about light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins. In an interview with Boxing Fanhouse, the 41-year-old Jones has this to say about Hopkins: “17 years is a long time to be scared. You [Hopkins] think I’m done, but you’re wrong. The [...]

By Jim Slattengren: You got to like Bernard Hopkins. He really knows how to come up with some good sound bites to sell a fight, even one that a lot of boxing cans could really care less about at this point. The 45-year-old Hopkins will be facing 41-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) on [...]

Bernard Hopkins – “This is 2010. That was 1993. That’s 17 years I’ve been waiting for this fight. It’s personal to me and it’s important to me that I get this man in the ring and that I send him on his way to the Hall of Fame. I want to make sure that the [...]

By William Mackay: In the past six years, Roy Jones Jr. has slowed down as a fighter, losing enough of his hand and foot speed to the point where he’s been knocked out three times in the past six years. Jones was nearly unbeatable for the first 14 years of his career, racking up an [...]

By Chris Williams: I was shocked recently when I saw that the old timers fight between Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) vs. Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) is going for a whopping $49.95. Good God, that is way too high for this fight. The bout, which will be taking place on April 3rd at [...]

Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Roy “The Terminator” Jones stayed true to their reputations as two of the most outspoken boxers in the history of the sport as they announced The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II, which will take place April 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev. and will be [...]

By Chris Williams: After 17 years of waiting, light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) is looking to get revenge against Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) on April 3rd when they meet at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hopkins, 45, doesn’t care that Jones appears to be almost completely [...]

By William Mackay: Recently, I read an article by a writer that seemed to be gloating about the fact that former World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe had beaten both Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins during his career. The writer of the article fails to mention that Hopkins was 43 at the [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV (February 4) . . . Tickets for the long awaited rematch of future Hall of Famers Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Roy “The Terminator” Jones Jr. go on sale tomorrow, Friday, February 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT. The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II is set for Saturday, April 3 at the Mandalay [...]

By Chris Williams: I for one could care less about the April 3rd fight between Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) and Roy Jones Jr. (50-6, 40 KO’s). I hear the fight is going to be on HBO pay-per-view, and I can only imagine the kind of numbers it will bring in as far as PPV [...]

By Chris Williams: It’s been ages since Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) and Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) last fought.
I can only imagine where the boxing fans are today who witnessed the fight between these two aging warriors seventeen long years ago in 1993. And I doubt if the fans who saw that [...]

After 17 years the wait is over as sure-fire future Hall of Famers Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Roy “The Terminator” Jones Jr. collide in a long awaited rematch that will add the final chapter to their 17-year rivalry. The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II is set for Saturday, April 3 at the Mandalay [...]

By Chris Williams: After Roy Jones Jr. was wiped out by Danny Green in a 1st round slaughter on December 2nd, any reason to watch a bout between Jones and 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) effectively went down the drain with that defeat. However, instead of moving on and taking a fight with a [...]

By Chris McHugh: I know most of you have no interest in the better-late-than-never clash between Roy Jones Jr and Bernard Hopkins, but I’m hoping a few of you might just change your minds once you have read my article.
Don’t get me wrong, I can see why a vast amount of people are refusing [...]

By Sean McDaniel: World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan will be fighting on the undercard of the fight between 40-year-olds Bernard Hopkins vs. Roy Jones Jr. on April 17th, according to news. Khan will either be facing WBA interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s), a knockout artist from Argentina and who boxing [...]

By William Mackay: 17 years after the two of them last faced each other, Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) and Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) will finally meet up again for a light heavyweight bout on April 17th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It appears that the two [...]

By Chris Williams: In a fight that is 10 years too late, 41-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) will be facing 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins (50-5-1, 32 KO’s) on April 17th, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
It was though that the pre-planned bout wasn’t going to go ahead after [...]

By Klaas Mabetlela: Roy Jones Jr placing in the upper echelon of fistic arena will always be a subject of huge debate. Everyone agrees that he is an all-time great who mesmerized us when he wanted to. This was the boxer who went years not just fights without losing a round. He also owns wins [...]

By Richie Doyle: Whenever I sit down with other boxing fans and talk boxing I must say I cringe when people say that boxing isn’t as good as the good old days and that it has lost its romance, now I know boxing past has seen some unbelievable boxers, great characters and ambassadors for the [...]

By Michael Taylor: August: At the beginning of August Devon Alexander was introduced to the big time with a victory over Junior Witter, retiring Witter for the vacant WBC Light Welterweight title. On the same show, Timothy Bradley and Nate Campbell’s WBO Light Welterweight clash ended in a no-contest, as a head butt caused a [...]

By Peter Wells: For the last few weeks Roy Jones Jr has been complaining about the 1st round knockout defeat he suffered to IBO Cruiserweight champion, Danny Green. He has said that Green used excess wrapping tape and bandages around his hands and is requested that Danny should be disqualified. Really this is not that [...]

By Sean McDaniel: In an article at Boxing Talk, Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) complained about the gauze that was used by IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green in his 1st round knockout victory over Jones on December 2nd. “I’d rather lose fair then win cheating,” Jones said about his loss to Green. In [...]

By Eric Thomas: After suffering an embarrassing 1st round knockout loss to Danny Green on the 2nd of December, Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) is considering retiring from boxing. Jones, 40, has fought professionally for 20 years and won titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions over the years.

By William Mackay: Roy Jones Jr. (54-6, 40 KO’s) is interested in getting a rematch against International Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Danny Green (28-3, 25 KO’s), who stopped Jones in the 1st round on Wednesday night at the Acer Arena, in Sydney, Austalia. Jones said in an interview with Fox News, “I was good by [...]