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Roy Jones Jr. Vs. Reggie Johnson
Roy Jones Jr. vs. Reggie Johnson, billed as ''...Then There Was One'', was a professional boxing match contested on June 5, 1999, for the WBA, WBC and IBF Light heavyweight championship. Background After making two defences in his third reign as Light heavyweight champion and having been elevated by the WBC to their full champion (at the expense of previous champion Graciano Rocchigiani who was demoted to just an "interim" champion) Roy Jones Jr. signed to face IBF titleholder Reggie Johnson. Johnson had been a training partner of Jones early on in his pro career but when his father and trainer Roy Jones Sr. decided to bring Johnson into his son's training program full time in 1992 it proved to be the catalyst for a bitter split between the two. "What my father didn't under stand was that it was inevitable that we would one day meet in the ring," Jones would recount during the build up to the bout "I knew it right away knew we were both headed for the championship and we'd h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Jones Jr
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer. He has 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 former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight title in 106 years. From 1999 to 2002 he held the undisputed championship 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of IBO World Champions
This is a list of IBO world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the International Boxing Organization (IBO) since 1993. *r – Champion relinquished title *s – Champion stripped of title Heavyweight Source: Cruiserweight Source: Light heavyweight Source: Super middleweight Source: Middleweight Source: Super welterweight Source: Welterweight Source: Super lightweight Source: Lightweight Source: Super featherweight Source: Featherweight Source: Super bantamweight Source: Bantamweight Source: Super flyweight Source: Flyweight Source: Light flyweight Source: Minimumweight Source: See also * List of IBO female world champions *List of WBA world champions *List of WBC world champions *List of IBF world champions *List of WBO world champions This is a list of WBO world champions, showing every world champion certified by the World Boxing Organization (WBO). The WBO is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lederman
Harold Lederman (January 26, 1940 – May 11, 2019) was an American boxing judge and analyst. He began his career as a boxing judge in 1967 and joined the cast of '' HBO World Championship Boxing'' in 1986, and was there until HBO dropped boxing in 2018. Lederman was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the class of 2016. Lederman died on May 11, 2019, at 79 years of age, from cancer. Education and career Lederman attended Columbia University and upon graduation earned a license from New York's State Athletic Commission to judge title fights on June 26, 1967. He judged (by his count) over a hundred title fights in every corner of the globe, all the while maintaining his pharmacy practice in New York. In 1986, HBO executive producer Ross Greenburg invited Lederman to join HBO's boxing show World Championship Boxing as an "expert commentator". Lederman retired from active judging in 1999 but remained with the HBO show as "unofficial ringside scorer." His voic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Arbachakov
Yuri Yakovlevich Arbachakov (; born October 22, 1966) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 1997. He held the WBC flyweight title from 1992 to 1997. Amateur career Yuri Arbachakov was born on October 22, 1966, in the village of Ust-Kezes, Kemerovo Oblast into a Shor family. Arbachakov was an amateur boxing star in the Soviet Union. He won both world and European amateur championships during his amateur career, and lost only 21 of 186 amateur fights. Professional boxing career Arbachakov emigrated to Japan as part of the perestroika program, along with Orzubek Nazarov. He trained with the Kyoei boxing gym, and fought almost all of his fights in Japan. He made his professional debut in February, 1990, under the name "Yuri Chakov", in the bantamweight division. In 1991, his gym changed his ring name to "Yuri Ebihara", (after former world champion Hiroyuki Ebihara) and in July of that year, he won the Japanese flyweight title in his seventh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orzubek Nazarov
Orzubek Nazarov (born August 30, 1966 in Kant, Kyrgyzstan, Kant, Kyrgyz SSR) is a Kyrgyz boxer, who won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno, Nevada, Reno. He is a former World Boxing Association, WBA Lightweight Champion. Amateur career As an amateur Nazarov was the World bronze medalist in 1986 and European champion in 1987 and had a record of 153-12. Professional career The southpaw turned pro in 1990 in Japan, one of the six Amateur Elite boxers (including Yuri Arbachakov) scouted out of the old Soviet Union by the Kyoei Gym. Vs. Dingaan Thobela In 1993 he won the WBA lightweight title against South African Dingaan Thobela via a unanimous decision. His first defence would be a rematch with Thobela, Orzubek also won the second contest via unanimous decision. Vs. Jean Baptiste Mendy Eye problems plagued him and he retired after being upset by Jean Baptiste Mendy in France. Professional boxing record See also *List of southpaw stance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
