Doug Jones (Boxer)

Doug Jones ( born February 27, 1937 in New York ) is a retired American boxer.

Professional career

The attack Boxer Jones 1958 professional in the light heavyweight class. After nineteen victories at the start of his career, among other things, Carl Olsen and Pete Rademacher, he was defeated for the first time in December 1961. Against the heavyweights Eddie Make it suffered a clear point defeat.

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

Then he strove for a rematch against Folley. However, this had to cancel due to illness, so he took against the hard-hitting light heavyweight and later longtime champion Bob Foster. Jones won by TKO in the eighth round. Now it came to a rematch with Folley and this time, Jones was able to prevail with a premature victory.

Because of this victory, he was led as a better light heavyweight among the top 10 in Ring Magazine. The win against Foster, who was rated highly because of its later success at light heavyweight, then found any attention because Foster had only disputed at the time their confrontations nine fights.

Ali Fight

Early 1963, the team agreed the young Cassius Clay, who was looking for a high -traded structure opponents from New York, a fight with Jones. Clay had a similar Konterboxstil ( " Stick and Move" ) as Make, Johnson and Folley, who could beat Jones before, but not as bad as chin Folley. The only around 85 kilograms Jones seemed to be no great risk for Clay to be.

However, the battle did not develop as expected, in the early rounds Jones did not have the slightest problem to bridge the distance and meet Clay always clear. Clay came only in the second half of the fight cope better and played his stamina strength.

The television and the majority of the journalists saw Jones at the end of the scheduled ten round fight on the front, but Clay was ultimately awarded the points victory. An adjudicator had Ali up in front, two further evaluated five rounds for Clay, four for Jones and a round draw. Jones never got a rematch.

Rest of the career

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

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