{"id":58863,"date":"2016-03-19T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=58863"},"modified":"2016-03-19T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:24:26","slug":"roy-jones-jr-a-legend-who-is-hell-bent-on-embarrassing-his-legacy-shocking-update-on-fight-with-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=58863","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones, JR: A Legend Who is Hell Bent on Embarrassing his Legacy! &#8211; SHOCKING UPDATE on Fight with Fan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;1363&#8243;]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=58863 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53627\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jones-roy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"jones-roy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Sunday night at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona, 47-year-old former world champion Roy Jones Jr. (62-9, 45 KOs) will have the most unusual boxing match in his career. The future Hall of Famer will step into the ring against a boxing fan on an event that can be seen on pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were asked to submit up to a 90-second video explaining why they\u2019re worthy of stepping into the ring with Roy. Over 1500 entries were received. The winner was 33-year-old Vyron Phillips of St. Paul, Minnesota. Phillips is listed as having an amateur boxing record of 6-1 and he is currently an MMA fighter. If he defeats Jones, he\u2019ll earn $100,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wfn4fqmEVbI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;1363&#8243;] Sunday night at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona, 47-year-old former world champion Roy Jones Jr. (62-9, 45 KOs) will have the most unusual boxing match in his career. The future Hall of Famer will step into the ring against a boxing fan on an event that can be seen on pay-per-view. Fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14809,627],"class_list":["post-58863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jr-a-legend-who-is-hell-bent-on-embarrassing-his-legacy-shocking-update-on-fight-with-fan","tag-roy-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58863"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}