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 …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…knew that Roy had been cheated. Even Parker himself was suprised, he even later admitted that Jones had bested him. To make up for the unfairness the International Boxing Association gave Roy the Val Barker Cup. The later investigation found out that two of the three judges had been had been wined and dinedby their Korean hosts. No evidence was found on the third judge though so Roy had to settle for the silver medal.