Top 10 Trainers of All Time
This is my list of the top 10 boxing trainers of all time.
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This is my list of the top 10 boxing trainers of all time.
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After his pathetic performance against Bernard Hopkins on April 3, 2010, Roy Jones returned to the ring as a cruiserweight a year later on May 5th, 2011 in Moscow, the Soviet Union. He took on a guy named Denis Lebedev, weighed in at 198 3/4 lbs., but it made no difference. He was knocked
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After his loss to Joe Calzaghe in November of 2008, I thought for sure that Roy Jones would retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Despite turning 40 in January of 2009, Jones returned to the ring on March 21 in his hometown of Pensacola to take on Omar Sheika. Sheika had been a
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Roy Jones returned to the ring on January 19, 2008 to fight Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in New York. I went over my friend’s house to watch this one on pay-per-view, out of curiosity more than anything else. He got the fight for free since his wife worked for the
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After his knockout loss to Glen Johnson in September of 2004, many people, including me, thought Roy Jones should retire. After taking almost upwards of a year off, Jones decided to fight Antonio Tarver for a third time on October 1, 2005 in Tampa, Florida. I ordered the pay-per-view with apprehension, since I really thought
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After his shocking knockout loss to Antonio Tarver on May 15, 2004, Roy Jones returned to the ring four months later. His opponent was IBF champ Glen Johnson, and the bout on HBO was held at the Fedex Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. Jones was a 7-1 favorite, I for one figured he would come back
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After trying to get a fight with Mike Tyson, Roy Jones instead accepted the rematch with Antonio Tarver. The bout was set for May 15, 2004 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and I definitely planned on ordering the pay-per-view card. I watched this one alone, and was rooting hard for Roy. Tarver annoyed
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After winning the heavyweight championship from John Ruiz on March 1, 2003, Roy enjoyed the victory, and contemplated his future. A boyhood nemesis named Antonio Tarver hounded Jones for years, and Roy finally agreed to fight him on November 8th at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. I vividly recall the advertisement for the
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After his easy win over Clinton Woods in September of 2002, Roy Jones accepted a fight with WBA Heavyweight Champion John Ruiz for March 1, 2003. In order to put some muscle on for the bout, Roy hired the services of trainer Mackie Shilstone, who had worked with many fighters, most notably Michael Spinks when
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In July of 2001, Roy Jones had his fight with Julio Cesar Gonzalez broadcast on pay-per-view instead of on HBO. I wouldn’t have paid for this thing for anything, and was satisfied to read about it in the paper the next day. The bout at the Staples Center in Los Angeles was a carbon copy
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