Boxing: ‘Russian’ Roy Jones Junior suffers another crushing KO loss

MOSCOW, Russia – Once great Roy Jones Junior saw his fading career hit a new low on Saturday, December 12 as he was knocked out in the fourth round of a cruiserweight contest against Welshman Enzo Maccarinelli.

Fighting in Moscow for the first time since being granted Russian citizenship in September, Jones suffered a 9th career defeat and 5th by knock-out.

The 46-year-old American was once regarded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world during his pomp from the mid-1990s for around a decade.

But ever since a shock second round KO defeat to compatriot Antonio Tarver for the lineal light-heavyweight title in 2004, Jones has been a shadow of his former self.

He came into the Maccarinelli bout on the back of an 8-fight winning streak, although only against overmatched opposition, since a brutal 10th round KO defeat to Russian Denis Lebedev in Moscow in 2011.

Former WBO cruiserweight titlist Maccarinelli, 35, has not held a world belt since losing that strap to compatriot David Haye in 2008. – Rappler.com