Charles "Spider" Jones (born April 20, 1946) is a Canadian journalist, author, and former

amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...

. He is a former three-time Golden Glove Champion and was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996. Born and raised in

Windsor, Ontario Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southe ...

, Jones spent much of his early teen years living across the border in Detroit. Jones formerly hosted a

talk radio Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often featur ...

show on CFRB 1010 in Toronto. In 1996, Jones was voted "Boxing Commentator and M.C. of the Year" by the Board of Governors of the World Boxing Federation. In 2020, he received the Order of Ontario award, and in 2023 he received the Black Business and Professional Association's Harry Jerome Lifetime Achievement Award.

Books

*''Out of the Darkness: The Spider Jones Story''. ECW Press (November 2003).

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* 1946 births Black Canadian boxers Black Canadian broadcasters Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian sports talk radio hosts Canadian talk radio hosts Living people Canadian male boxers Members of the Order of Ontario Seneca College alumni Boxers from Detroit Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario Writers from Detroit Writers from Windsor, Ontario Black Canadian journalists {{Canada-boxing-bio-stub