Roy Jones Jr has becomes a Russian citizen.
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Russia’s economy continues to buckle under the weight of low oil prices and global sanctions, but President Vladimir Putin has plenty of reasons to be cheerful.
“I am Russian!” said Jones, clad in a Russian tricolor flag, triumphantly after being handed the document at the Federal Migration Service’s Moscow office, according to footage by the LifeNews tabloid published online. But you need to be nearly willfully blind to miss this big picture, because Putin’s tactics – to pounce on the slightest breach or sign of weakness in Europe in order to sow division – have been remarkably consistent.
“The governor of Sevastopol hopes that Roy Jones will join the public work on the sports development in the city”, Moskalenko said in an interview with TASS. State-run VTsIOM said October 22 that the president’s backing rose to a record 88.9 percent in its survey after Russian Federation began bombing Syria. “This is one of the happiest days of my life”.
Russia occupied and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea a year ago and has subsequently supported a pro-Russian separatist rebellion in that country’s two eastern-most regions. The ensuing controversy prompted a complete overhaul of the scoring system for Olympic boxing.
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As a professional, he captured world championships at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. After a 49-1 start with the lone defeat coming on a disqualification, he lost seven of 12 fights between 2004 and 2011. However, since his loss to Lebedev, Jones has won his last eight fights against comparatively mediocre opponents.
