BOXING : JONES GETS BEST OF MCCALLU FOR LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE.Byline: Ed Schuyler Jr. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Mike McCallum, one of the best fighters of the 1980s, met Roy Jones Jr., one of the best of the '90s, and Jones proved beyond a doubt Friday night this is no longer McCallum's time. Jones won every round on the cards of all three judges and won the vacant WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte. WBC abbr. white blood cell WBC, n stands for white blood cell. light heavyweight championship. The 27-year-old Jones was just too fast for McCallum, who will turn 40 on Dec. 7. The unbeaten Jones hit McCallum with two- and three-punch combinations, right-hand leads and counters and left hooks almost whenever he wanted to. Jones, who also holds the IBF IBF See: International Banking Facility super welterweight title, became a champion for the third time. He also has held the IBF middleweight crown. Jones knocked McCallum down at the bell ending the 10th round with a left hook to the body and a right to the jaw. McCallum got up, but had to take a mandatory 8-count because the bell cannot save a fighter who has been knocked down. Jones, at 173 pounds, almost knocked down McCallum late in the final round. He buckled McCallum with a right to the head, then shot home three more head blows before the bell rang. McCallum, who weighed the class limit of 175, looked every bit his age and nothing like the man who was WBA WBA West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA World Boxing Association WBA Weekly Benefit Amount WBA Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (Madison, WI) WBA Wireless Broadband Access junior middleweight champion in the 1980s and ranked with Sugar Ray Leonard Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956) is a retired American professional boxer. He was one of the leading boxers in the world in the late 1970s and 1980s, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas , Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns as the best nonheavyweights of the decade. McCallum, who did his best work to the body but seemed to lack snap to his punches, said he will fight again. ``He's good, he's clever, he fought a great fight,'' McCallum said of Jones, who boosted his record to 34-0 with 29 knockouts. For action, the fight didn't rival the WBO WBO World Boxing Organization WBO Western Buddhist Order WBO Wehrbeschwerdeordnung WBO World Bamboo Organization (formerly International Bamboo Association) WBO Won by One (Malibu, California; a cappella group) junior featherweight title bout that preceded it. In that fight, Junior Jones of Brooklyn, N.Y., won the title when Marco Antonio Barrera Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at WBO Super Bantamweight (122 lb), IBO / WBC Featherweight (126 lb), WBC Super Featherweight (130 lb) and IBF Junior Lightweight (130 lb) divisions. was disqualified dis·qual·i·fy tr.v. dis·qual·i·fied, dis·qual·i·fy·ing, dis·qual·i·fies 1. a. To render unqualified or unfit. b. To declare unqualified or ineligible. 2. with one second left in the fifth round after his handlers rushed into the ring. The handlers claimed the bell had rung, but referee Max Parker said it hadn't and disqualified Barrera, who had gone down at the bell from a right hand and three lefts to the head. The Mexican also had been knocked down and hurt by a right earlier in the round. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Mike McCallum connects here, but it is Roy Jones Jr., left, who won the title fight. Associated Press |
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