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Doug Jones (February 27, 1937 – November 14, 2017) was an American heavyweight boxer. He was the number one contender in early 1964 and beat top contenders such as Zora Folley, Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster, Middleweight World Champion Bobo Olson and World Heavyweight Title Challenger's Pete Rademacher and Tom McNeeley in his career.
Word has reached us that Doug Jones, the former light heavyweight and heavyweight contender of the early 1960s, passed away recently at the age of 80. Prior to Muhammad Ali’s three and a half year exile that began in 1967 Doug Jones gave the fighter then known as Cassius Clay his toughest fight.
Mar 13, 2024 · Doug Jones should be through struggling in boxing. He had been unconscious in the ring for nearly two minutes, and now he was sprawled on a table like some vagrant napping under a tree. Nobody in...
Sep 26, 2019 · Picking up where he left off, he once again reigned until his death in 1968 at the age of 62, of heart failure while eating at the neighborhood’s Wells Restaurant. While Godfather of Harlem does...
- Gina Martinez
Mar 13, 2024 · A huge heavyweight, a dangerous puncher, and a dashing celebrity who made the girls swoon, he had fourteen wins, all by knockout. But then he met equally huge Buddy Baer, who, in the first round, bounced Doyle off the canvas three times to force a stoppage.
Feb 14, 2005 · Few fights have generated more myths than the March 13, 1963 bout at Madison Square Garden between heavyweight contenders Cassius Clay and Doug Jones. To hear some people tell it, Clay was...
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Cassius Clay vs. Doug Jones was a professional boxing match contested on March 13, 1963. Clay won on points in what would prove to be one of the closest fights of his early professional career. The fight was named 1963's Fight of the Year by The Ring.
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