Doug Jones (boxer)

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Doug Jones boxer
Data
Birth Name Douglas David Jones
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality US-american
birthday February 27, 1937
place of birth new York
Date of death November 14, 2017
Combat Statistics
Struggles 41
Victories 30th
Knockout victories 20th
Defeats 10
draw 1

Doug Jones (born February 27, 1937 in New York - † November 14, 2017 ) was an American boxer.

Professional career

The attacking boxer Jones turned pro in the light heavyweight class in 1958. After nineteen victories at the beginning of his career, including against Carl Olsen and Pete Rademacher , he was defeated for the first time in December 1961. He suffered a clear defeat against heavyweight Eddie Make .

Nevertheless, he received six months later, in May 1962, a world championship fight for the vacant light heavyweight title against Harold Johnson . But he also lost against Johnson, just like a subsequent point decision against Zora Folley again in the heavyweight division. Even against the German light heavyweight Erich Schöppner , he then only reached a draw.

He then sought a rematch against Folley. However, this had to be canceled due to illness, so that he competed against the powerful light heavyweight and later long-time world champion Bob Foster . Jones won by technical knockout in the eighth round. Now there was a rematch with Folley and this time Jones was able to prevail with an early victory.

Because of this victory, he was listed as the better light heavyweight in the top 10 in Ring Magazine . The win against Foster, who was later rated highly because of his success in the light heavyweight division, was not noticed at the time, because Foster had only played nine fights at the time they met.

Ali fight

In early 1963, the team of the young Cassius Clay , who was looking for a highly traded opponent from New York, agreed a fight with Jones. Clay had a similar style of counter-boxing ("stick and move") as making, Johnson and Folley, who had previously defeated Jones, but not as bad a chin as Folley. Jones, who weighs just 85 kilograms, didn't seem to pose a great risk to Clay.

The fight didn't develop as expected, however, in the first few rounds Jones didn't have the slightest problem bridging the distance and hitting Clay again and again. Clay only got along better in the second half of the fight and showed his stamina.

The television and most of the journalists saw Jones in front after the end of the ten-round fight, but Clay was ultimately awarded the point victory. One judge had Ali high in the front, two more scored five rounds for Clay, four for Jones and one round a tie. Jones never got a rematch.

Rest of the career

In 1964 he was defeated by Billy Daniels, who had not won his last five previous fights. In the next fight he even went KO against the Canadian George Chuvalo for the first time in his career.

In 1966 he got without much success in the meantime a title fight against WBA world champion Ernie Terrell and lost high on points. Thad Spencer dominated him completely in the next fight , he went KO against Joe Frazier in 1967. A little later he ended his career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Doug Jones, Boxers Who Gave a Young Cassius Clay His Toughest fight, Dies at 80 werk = Boxing Over Broadway. November 22, 2017, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  2. Reflection - A Final 10-Count For Boxing Notables Who Left Us In 2017. In: thesweetscience.com. December 22, 2017, accessed May 17, 2018 .