Roy Jones Jr
Roy Jones Jr.Roy Jones Jr. was born on January 16, 1969 in Pensacola Florida. Unlike
other black boxers Roy developed his boxing skills on a hog farm in a hamlet
called Barth, outside Pensacola, when many others developed there�s in the
city ghettoes. He was the oldest of five. He had three sisters and onr brother.
Roy�s father Roy Sr. said that he is the one who sparked Roy Jr.
interest in boxing, by play sparring with him when he was only five. Roy Sr.
said, "I�d let him pounch me in the head. When I pounched him, he�d get
mad and run off and cry. Then he�d come back and want to do more. When
we�d finish I let him get the best of me." Roy Sr. was also a former
middleweight competitor. Roy�s dad made Roy Jr. to fight a 14 yr. old when
Roy himself was only 10. The boy out weighed him by 16 lbs.
The training facilities weren�t to Roy Sr.�s standard so he constructed
his own ring in a pasture and fmade a punching bag with scrap materials.
Local kids watched as Roy�s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing.
Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family�s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn�t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to...
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