Roy Jones Jr.

American boxer, rapper and actor

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Nicknames: Superman Junior RJ Captain Hook
Nationality: American Russian
Born: Roy Levesta Jones Jr. , ( 1969-01-16 ) January 16, 1969 (age 57) , Pensacola, Florida , U.S.
Height: 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)

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Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American former professional boxer that competed from 1989 to 2018, and again in 2023. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. As an amateur he represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning the light middleweight silver medal.

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 and only boxer to win the heavyweight title starting his career as a junior middleweight, and the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship at light heavyweight.