{"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><div id=\"polls-1363\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1363\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1363_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"5c3449b82f\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1363\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Has Roy Jones, JR. tarnished his boxing legacy with the devastating KO losses since 2004 and now this JOKE of facing a fan?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1363-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-3570\" name=\"poll_1363\" value=\"3570\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-3570\">Yes, he must have forgot from rapping all those horrible songs!<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-3571\" name=\"poll_1363\" value=\"3571\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-3571\">No, I am tuning in to see him beat down a helpless fan because it really cements his legacy in boxing!<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-3572\" name=\"poll_1363\" value=\"3572\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-3572\">First we had to endure his horrible rapping, now this?  I would rather see someone box my motherinlaw who actually can fight and throws a mean frying pan!<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1363);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1363); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1363-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<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>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 were asked [&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}]}}