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All of them are expected to appear on the TV channel UKRAINE, and its TV show The Contender. Well known boxing promoter and partner of the project Vadym Bukhkalov told that recently the contracts with the famous boxers Nikolai Valuev and Roy Jones Jr. had been signed read more ...

Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. is still pursuing a fight with WBA heavyweight champion David Haye. Jones, 41-years-old, is not ready to retire just yet. Jones lost a twelve round decision to Bernard Hopkins in April and was stopped by IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green in the first round of their December fight. He thinks Haye is the perfect final opponent before retiring read more ...

Square Ring Promotions announced today that it was postponing the Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Danny Santiago Boxing event scheduled for October 7 due to a hand injury suffered by Roy Jones, Jr. John Wirt, CEO of Square Ring Promotions, said “Roy’s manager, McGee Wright, informed me today that Roy injured his left hand while sparring on Saturday and that on Monday, he went to the doctor and X-rays were taken read more ...

Legendary eight-time world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. returns home for only the second time in 11 years to battle Danny “The Bronx Bomber” Santiago for the NABF cruiserweight championship on Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Pensacola Civic Center. The star-studded card also features another NABF championship match as well as the area’s best pro boxing talent. The event is being promoted by Square Ring Promotions in association with the Pensacola Civic Center and Will Call Sports Grille and Ice Nightclub read more ...

Light heavyweight Ismayl Sillakh (12-0, 11KOs) was very impressive on the Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones Jr. undercard on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. He faced veteran Daniel Judah (23-5-3, 10KOs), who went the distance with numerous top contenders like Glen Johnson and Yusaf Mack. Sillakh passed the test with flying colors. He picked Judah apart and stopped him inside of two rounds. Judah had previously been stopped one time, back in 2006 when Darnell Wilson clipped him in four rounds read more ...

Richard Schaefer, CEO for Golden Boy Promotions, would like to see his friend and business partner Bernard Hopkins retire from the ring. Hopkins, 45, finally got his revenge on Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night in Las Vegas by winning an ugly, foul-filled twelve round decision. Hopkins nearly fainted after the fight was over. He felt dizzy, blaming his post-fight reaction on Jones hitting him with illegal punches to the back of the head read more ...

After 17-years of waiting, Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32KOs) won a twelve round lopsided decision over Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The scores were 117-110, 117-110 and 118-109 for Hopkins. Jones won a twelve round decision over Hopkins in 1993. The live crowd booed often at the lack of action in the ring read more ...

Outside of three Roy Jones Jr. fouls that each crumpled Bernard Hopkins to the canvas, the crowd of 6,792 at Mandalay Bay was treated to little in the way of action as the 45-year-old Philadelphia evened a 17-year-old score with a unanimous decision in their 12-round light heavyweight rematch read more ...

17 years after their first fight, ring legend Bernard Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KOs) evened the score against 41-year-old fellow legend Roy Jones Jr. (54-7, 40 KOs) winning a foul-filled twelve round unanimous decision on Saturday night in a light heavyweight bout at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The first five rounds were measured, tactical and sometimes dirty, but things really heated up in round six after Hopkins went down from a seemingly light rabbit punch read more ...

From the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas for tomorrow night’s PPV-televised “The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II” showdown promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. Bernard Hopkins 175 vs. Roy Jones 175 Rocky Juarez 129 vs. Jason Litzau 130 Sergio Mora 161 vs. Calvin Green 161 Ismayl Sillakh 175 vs. Daniel Judah 175 read more ...