Guillermo Jones

Guillermo Jones
Data
Birth Name	Guillermo Agustin Jones
Weight class	Cruiser weight
nationality	Panamanian
birthday	May 5th 1972
place of birth	Colón
style	Left delivery
size	1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	44
Victories	39
Knockout victories	31
Defeats	3
draw	2

Guillermo Jones (born May 5, 1972 in Colón , Panama ) is a professional boxer from Panama.

Professional career

Guillermo Jones began his professional career in 1993 in the welterweight division, the weight class up to 66.7 kg. After 21 victorious fights he lost in September 1997 to David Noel from Trinidad and Tobago by knockout in the second round, but retaliated for this defeat in a direct rematch when he defeated Noel by technical knockout in the first round. Jones then boxed on February 13, 1998 against Laurent Boudouani from France for the WBA World Light Middleweight Championship. The fight ended in a controversial draw, so that here too a direct rematch was scheduled, in which Jones on May 30, 2008 was also subject to controversial points.

As a result, Jones jumped several weight classes and boxed from 2002 mainly in the cruiser weight, the class up to 90.7 kg. On November 23, 2002, he faced WBO world champion Johnny Nelson and boxed again in a controversial draw. Against the later IBF world champion Steve Cunningham he lost just barely on points in April 2005, but in the same year defeated the two former world champions Kelvin Davis and Wayne Braithwaite each by technical knockout in round four. On September 27, 2008, Guillermo Jones defeated the reigning WBA world champion Firat Arslan in Hamburg in a one-sided duel by technical knockout in the tenth round after the referee broke off the fight because of too clear superiority.

After winning the title, he remained inactive for two years, so the WBA announced in August 2010 that it would revoke the title if he should not defend his title. Jones then went on October 2, 2010 in Panama City against the Russian Valeri Brudow and won by technical knockout in the eleventh round after the fight was canceled by the referee due to lacerations over Brudow's eyes.

In October 2012, the title was finally revoked because he had only made two defenses since winning the title in 2008 and canceled an already scheduled fight due to an alleged injury. Interim world champion Denis Lebedew was then named the new champion by the WBA. On May 17, 2013 he won against Lebedev by knockout in the eleventh round and thus received the WBA title back. On October 18, 2013, the WBA announced that traces of doping had been found in Jones' blood. Jones' victory was canceled and the title returned to Lebedev.

Web links

• Guillermo Jones in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ^ R-Sport: Boxing: WBA strips Jones of title, Lebedev Cruiser Champ again. (No longer available online.) In: themoscownews.com. The Moscow News, October 18, 2013, archived from the original January 28, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Firat Arslan	Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) September 27, 2008 - October 30, 2012	Denis Lebedev

predecessor	Office	successor
Denis Lebedev	Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) May 17, 2013 - current