“I’d like to see Roy go away from this”, he said. After the prolonged process of selection, an unknown 33 year old MMA Fighter Vyron Philips was selected as the contender to fight the former champ and was given a shot at securing a prize amount $100,000. His combat sports experience is limited to being 6-1 in amateur boxing contests and a 5-3 professional MMA record.
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“I don’t have anything planned”, said Jones, who was brutally knocked out by Britain’s Enzo Maccarinelli past year. Jones Junior, and his co-promoters at URShow, came up with what you could call a novel idea in Jones fighting a fan, with the fan offered the sum of $100,000 as payment if he were to defeat the living legend.
Even at age 47, former middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight champion “Captain Hook” Roy Jones Jr. has still got it. Roy Jones Jr. comfortable crushed the challenge of his opponent and registered a convincing victory here on the Sunday night. They need better opposition for Jones if he’s going to be doing more of these fights in the future. That guy has an incredible heart to just try the feat.
Jones’ does not now have any other fights scheduled, and it’s uncertain whether or not this pay-per-view sideshow will continue. In the fourth round, Jones was knocked out so badly that spectators couldn’t help but parallel the fight to the bout featuring Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago from Rocky IV.
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Roy Jones boxed a fan on a sanctioned PPV.
