Roy Jones Jr. Autographed Gloves

Dubbed as Captain Hook who’s born in Pensacola, Florida, Roy Jones, Jr. is a professional boxer who’s greatly gained esteem for several of the championships that he has claimed. These victories came from different divisions, varying from the Heavyweight, Light heavyweight, Super middleweight and Middleweight divisions. His boxing record truly exudes excellence as he posted 61 total fights. Out of these bouts, he emerged as a winner in 54 occasions, wherein he triumphed 40 times thru a knockout. At certain points in his fighting career, Captain Hook has met other exceptional boxers like Bernard Hopkins, Mike McCallum and Glen Johnson.

 

Also often called as Superman, Jones, Jr. is the sole boxer to begin his career rated as a junior middleweight, who then later became a heavyweight titlist. In addition, he garnered a record of seven belts at one time, holding the IBA, WBF, NABF, IBO, IBF, WBA and WBC heavyweight championship titles. Added to these impressive feats, Superman has emerged as a victor in the 1988 Seoul Korea Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal for the light-middleweight category.

 

Further, christened as Junior and RJ, Jones, Jr. has massively reaped recognition as he surfaced triumphant in the WBA heavyweight championship. In doing so, he turned into a heavyweight titlist who’s once nabbed the middleweight champion in 106 years. To top everything else, Junior or RJ has been referred as the “Fighter of the Decade” for the ‘90s as conferred by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Other winner of this prestigious citation is another boxing genius Riddick Bowe.