Roy Jones Jr | All Losses by KO and TKO 

man when Roy goes out, he really goes out.

In a perfect world, Roy Jones Jr retired after his heavyweight fight with Johny Ruiz.

So much unnecessary damage at the end of his career. Just sad.

I’ve never seen such a quicker demise than RJJ. This is my favorite fighter of all time and it pains me to see after his 49 Victor he lost just about every fight thereafter.

He was such an UNREAL athlete he never had to master the basic fundamentals. It fit his style in his prime. He was Jazz but when he got older those “flaws” were exposed. They were always there but he was so fast and dangerous no one could capitalize or even see the openings.

He never transitioned to high guard when he got older. Always holding his hands low. Always. That works when you're a world class athlete with superhuman reflexes on top of superb boxing skills, but he was old at this point no longer a world class athlete with those cat like reflexes. Can't hold your hands like that and not expect to get mopped eventually. Never made adjustments

After Roy got knocked out by Tarver " he was stuck in a bad state of shock a.k.a. trauma which led him to suffer every knock out lose thereafter.

Jones was as excellent fighter with a porcelain jaw. When he lost a fraction of his reflexes and quickness, he had no other attribute to continue to win. What amazed me was knowing he had a week chin, he continued to fight the same way.

It’s actually embarrassing to watch, but that’s what happens when you stay in the game way too long

Hard to believe this is a fighter that once dominated his opponents easily. Now he's being knocked out face first.😵

Brutal, same punishment he dished out in his prime he received at the end of his career.

In his prime, he was one of the best. Age catches up to all of us.

Jones always left himself wide open with his hands down when he fought, it was only a matter of time until it caught up with him.

Who'd a thunk the great arrogant Roy Jones Jr had a glass jaw.

Roy Jones was such a naturally gifted athlete in his prime that he was virtually untouchable. However, his neglect of the basic fundamentals meant that once those gifts started to diminish his base skills couldn't carry him to victory in his later career, the exact opposite to Bernard Hopkins who never was physically gifted but his skill and dedication to mastering the fundamentals allowed him to continue to prosper well past his best years.

I remember watching Jones Jr vs Tarver 2 live one of the most shocking moments in boxing history was that knock out. My brother in law turned off the t.v because he was upset Jones lost, I was like what are you doing I want to see what both fighters are going to say….we ended up missing the interview and watched on the following weekend last time me and friends ever watched a fight at his house

Roy never looked the same after coming down from heavyweight.

I always will respect Roy. He was an unbelievable middle-weight. He always pushed himself and refused to be content. He never hid in his division like many guys have done and still do. He couldn't bring his punch up though and that's what hurt him. At least he tried. He will always be one of the absolute best fighters that I have ever seen. So many fighters stay content at the weight classes they are comfortable in and wait for guys to come up to them. I don't remember Roy this way. I like to remember him giving it to Hopkins and Toney, amongst others.

When Roy won the heavyweight Championship of the world, then tried to come back down, it did something to his body to loose that mass . Never was the same .

Knowing when to quit is an art form that very few can master.

He had nothing to fall back on one of the saddest demises in history .

That left hand stayed too low

Such an awesome fighter that will sadly be remembered for sticking around too damn long .

"a man has got to know his limitations" 'Clint Eastwood'

Roy Jones Jr was that special case where you had a boxer with horrible fundamentals but with superhuman speed and power. I am sure his opponents early and late in his career knew he had the horrible tendency of leaving his hands down past his waist. In Roy's prime even if his opponent saw the opening there was no way to reach it without having to contend with Roy's incredible speed and power. I predicted before he lost his prime that once he lost that speed he was going to be in real trouble. Once Roy lost his athleticism those bad habits in the ring became his demise. There were other bad habits but it never really mattered because he was too damn fast for anyone to capitalize on it. I still think that as far as athleticism goes Roy Jones Jr was gifted way more than your average human being. He beat both prime James Toney and Bernard Hopkins. One last interesting thing about Roy is that he is a boxing head. Anybody who knows boxing can tell that he has a high boxing IQ just from listening to his commentating but the weird part is he never took the time to get a solid boxing foundation.

After the Tarver KO… Jones lost the eye of the tiger and became a bum!

Who remembers when Tarver jumped on the ropes and said, "I'm da man!". Shit was pure comedy.

I forgot he lost this many fights by KO, clearly he fought way past his prime, all the great fighters do !

He couldn’t take the heavier shots when he moved up in weight classes. The extra weight he carried slowed down the acceleration of his punches. Meaning he wasn’t punching as hard. Then the majority of these fights had him at a height and reach disadvantage. He was one of the greatest at his natural weight class.

This is the problem when you go up and down in weight

He had a couple of wins against Tito and Lacy that gave him a false sense of security, then he started getting put to sleep again. Most fighters never go out on top. It's their nature. Thanks for the memories Roy. We'll never forget!

Jones was another great warrior that just didn't know when to retire - he was never the same after Tarver KOed him - he suffered some brutal knockouts later in his career.

After he won the WBA heavyweight title from Ruiz he should have retired. Nothing more to prove and past his prime. Stayed too long like M. Ali.

RJJ's achilles heel was always his chin. Even in his prime he got dropped hard by Lou Del Valle. He just didn't get clipped often enough at his peak thanks to his freak athleticism for it to be an issue.

It's been heartbreaking being a fan of Roy in the last period of his career. He just lost his ability to absorb punches, it wasnt fun knowing that any clean shot was gunna drop him.

So rough to watch the most gifted and unbeatable (at his best) fighter in history suffer multiple and concussive KOs like this.

One of the greatest at middleweight. Once you move up the weight division you run the risk of getting beaten by the naturally bigger fighter. You can always get bigger but sometimes the punching power does not come with it. With RJJ loses they were all later in his career.

Jones just stayed too long......sad!

One of the saddest stories in boxing. I saw the same thing happen to Fernando Vargas. Once your body learns to sign off after a big punch, that is what it does, and you become easier and easier to get knocked out.

Damn Roy! Everything comes to an end... even greatness. It looks like he provided Fight Night 3 with all their knockout animations.

Glass jaw Jones as it turned out

Roy should have retired after the first Antonio Tarver fight. He hag nothing left to prove, his legacy was intact. Now he’s become a running joke. So sad. He would have been an all time great.

His left hand is always low. His speed deteriorated,his conditioning changed. I also blame his camp

This guy Roy has the sickest highlights of any fighter in all of combat sports

A little story for you youngsters...the first RJJ KO was before the internet was really huge. There was internet of course, but not instantaneous cell phone internet like we've had for the last 15 years or so. Someone at work told me Jones had been KO'd in the 2nd round, I refused to believe him. I couldn't immediately verify it by looking at my phone, so I had to wait until I got home to check, and sure enough, I saw it on the sports ticker..."Tarver def Jones by 2nd round knockout". I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Sportcenter talked about it, but being that it was on HBO, didn't show the actual KO. I think I finally saw the footage a few days later on some shitty dial up stream. Point is...well, not really sure what the point is. Just something I thought about upon watching this video.

I think when he came back down from heavyweight that’s when he seemed different, and Tarver just countered him and Roy was noticeably not as fast and speed was his main weapon imo

He was a beast in the 90s looked unstoppable but these KO and TKO loses at the end of his career really hurt his legacy nevertheless he’s still an all time great.

All great champions took L's. Ali, Tyson, Holyfield, Jones, Chavez, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Toney, Mosley, Leonard and the list goes on. Nothing can take away what Jones brought to boxing, He's a legend and a true champion. Much respect to Roy Jones, may God continue to bless this man. Amen!

In his prime, RJJ was the greatest boxer I'd ever seen. Dude was untouchable, accurate, and lightning quick. The problem was, and IS with most boxers, he didn't know when to call it a day. So he accumulated a bunch of Ls in the end. But man, he was a BEAST.

Raise and fall of the KING

Roy Jones was never the same after the Tarver fight.

That weight drop from heavyweight to light heavyweight was the root cause of his decline, nothing else. Still one of the goats, so far no fighter fights like roy.

Sad to see a legend go out like that.

Wow...that last KO was scary. Roy had a nice career as an HBO color guy but the most recent video I saw of him was very sad. These late in his career knockouts sealed his fate as a punch drunk former champion. Yes his inhuman speed early in his career kept him from ever being hit clean but the Tarver fight broke him. Something was never the same in RJJ both psychologically and physically. His slide from unbeatable to "opponent" was very quick. In the Johnson fight, he had nothing...absolutely nothing. Glenn took command of that fight from the start and Jones did so little punching you knew something was terribly wrong. Lots of pundits credited this to the weight fluctuations and coming down from heavyweight and some of it, no doubt, was due to that but Johnson was so dominant there had to be more than that affecting RJJ. One sad video!

Roy was unstoppable in his prime. One of the fastest and best ever.

For many new fans of the sport is going to be hard to believe this guy was actually one of the best of the history...

Roy is one of my favorites. I'm also glad Mayweather learned from Roy's losses. Always get paid because when it's over, it's over. It was a time when Roy fought everyone, then it was a time when he fought nobodies. I can't believe he wants Spence to be a crash dummy smh

Im not even a boxer but even i know...for the love of God roy, KEEP YOUR HANDS UP!!!

I'm from Pensacola Florida and seeing ppl show RJJ respect makes me very peaceful😎😎😎

I like Roy Jones jr. but I think his first los by ko break him mentally....as Fighter he was no longer the same !!!!!

To all those saying Jones was past his rime when he started losing. That may be true but let's not forget he fought Felix Trinidad who never fought at a weight above 160 lbs at a catch weight of 170 lbs. Trinidad had been retired for two and a half years and was an old man by then, at 35 years old. After Tarver KO'd him, Jones never beat anyone of note, except for an old long retired Trinidad. And if you examine Jones' record, at middleweight He beat Hopkins, obviously a good fighter. Most of the other defences were not against great opponents. At 168, he beat Toney. Who was a good fighter, but undisciplined as far as preparation goes. He beat Vinny Pazienza, a former lightweight champion. There are really no other opponents of note. I suppose you could make a case for Eric Lucas, who did win a world title later in his career. At 175, he beat Mike McCallum, who was a very good fighter, but McCallum was 40 years old when they fought. He beat Virgil Hill. That's not that many big name fighters he fought. Most of the rest of his opponents were not what most people would consider quality opposition. After that he moved up to heavyweight, so in his prime he didn't really fight too many greats, did he ?

I hate to see legends not retire when the should have and take unnecessary damage like this. Jones is a legend

Can't be touched, can't be stopped, can't be moved, can't be rocked😂

Long Live the KING

This is my all time favorite Roy Jones Jr video Young boxers take note keep your hands down around your knees and you get a free nappy nap

He was the best I've ever seen in his prime

In boxing there's a world of difference between a fighter who's lost a fight and a defeated fighter.👍💪🙏

Seen that glen johnson ko it was nasty live

Anytime a fighter allows himself to get a gut, you can tell how he's training

Roy Jones Jr , I've been watching boxing for the past 62 years, and he's the best I've ever seen.

I was a huge Roy Jones jr fan from back when he was robbed in the Olympics. I still am. Those first two knockouts hurt me. I still believe he was one of the greatest 👍🏽

I think this was a combination of things. First and foremost when he beat Ruiz, I honestly believe he accomplished all he wanted in the ring. From that point, he was just going through the motions. He certainly lost his reflexes when he went back down to 175, but you could tell his heart just wasn’t in it anymore. Go to a full broadcast of his fight with Johnson. Watch his facial reactions throughout. You’ll see what I mean.

Legend ever. Greatness

"Y'all must've forgot." 🤣

Just sad just sad seeing Roy go out like that .

It was indeed a sad ending beaten and knocked spark out by good boxers that weren't fit to lace his boots! Boxers are like drinking men they don't no when to give up! The only difference is this man will always be a boxing legend!

It brings tears to my eyes to see Mr. Jones Jr. get knocked out so many times, I guess it's true, nothing lasts forever...✊🍻

Roy Jones had cat like reflexes in his prime. But father time is undefeated.

Once the punch resistance is gone, it’s gone for good.

Jones never had a great chin but he was too fast for it to get tested. Then he wasn't. And damn, how many times did he have to get that message before calling it quits?

From the king of knock outs to the queen of getting knocked out.

I don't understand people who said RJJ has no boxing fundamentals but, at the same time, claimed he is the most talented. RJJ actually had the best sets of boxing skills and basics. He also had so many incredible strategies and tricks as this shows in his fight with Calzaghe when he tricked and knocked down him in the first round. The weight reduction from 199 lb to light heavyweight (178 lb) is also very common for boxers around the world. The only suspicious thing is that he was so mentally weak after the first fight with Tarver. It seemed like he eventually faced with his true kryptonite. He seemed to lose all confidence afterwards.

It’s sad to see the top #3 boxers ever go out like this. His speed and reflexes left him. And his conditioning. I’m a huge Roy fan he’s still the goat 🐐

Jeez, Roy was an absolute shell of himself after coming down from that heavyweight challenge against Ruiz. Damn, but why did he continue to fight? There were journeymen beating him like he was nothing - sad. Folks, this was indeed sad on every level....

Roy Jones Jr still and will always be my favorite boxer

As a middleweight Jones fought like a cobra. He was extremely fast and could get away with his laissez faire defense. He had maybe the weakest chin of any great fighter ever.

Roy Jones Jr was great when he had his speed and athletics. That was his defense as much as his offense in his boxing style of usage. But after he went heavyweight and then back to light heavyweight = 2 weight class jumps, he lost most of it and suddenly he was almost immediately calculated and exposed in the ring. Now all could see repeatedly that Jones Jr did not have a great chin and that he had a poor guard and overall not well in his defense. Now near any experienced puncher could take him out. Worst was/is that he never could adapt his own boxing style to compensate for his loss of speed and athletics like say his rival Bernard Hopkins did or old man George Foreman, who became greater at older stages of respective career in the ring.

He only had ONE flaw; it was NEVER exposed due to his ALLTIME superior talent. That flaw is Roy Jones had a glass jaw, plain & simple. If he had retired after the John Ruiz fight @ heavyweight, Roy would have went down in history among the Ali's & Ray Robinson's!!!!! He LOST lots of energy losing weight to fight Tarver @ Light Heavyweight and it showed in the fight. He should have made Tarver move up to Heavyweight . Roy was obviously exhausted and moved slow by his standards early in the fight. Even in round 1, Roy was moving super slow. Eventually caused Roy to get caught with that left by Tarver. Tarver always fought at a high level against Roy anyway. All that time, we had NEVER saw Roy get hit on the button like that. . . he was normally too quick. He ALWAYS had a glass jaw. His subsequent fights after that proves it. 3 more losses by KNOCKOUT. Probably the most tragic end to any sports legend's career. Someone else said it in the comments. . . MAN, only if he'd retired after Ruiz??? He literally had a GOAT argument (going all the way to Heavyweight) even against Ali. But that lost to Tarver!!!!!! Took Roy from, as my country cousin from Alabama say, Sugar to shit instantly. Roy STILL an alltime great even after all that, but again, he was looking at GOAT status after that Ruiz fight.

As a fan of boxing and someone who genuinely loved watching Roy fight.... those were some very serious ko's. I'm talking x-rated. Damn Roy!

No matter how great ROY‘s career was this is his legacy, and what he will always be remembered for, sadly.

Roy was a great fighter but had a glass jaw. Whenever he got hit by a semi-decent shot, he was done.

Like him or not , Roy will still be remembered by his great wins !

He stayed in the ring longer than he should have. Funny as all these guys that beat him have all been forgotten about but yet he will always be a legend!

I don't understand why guys like him and Holyfield didn't just stop while they were slightly ahead.

Рой Джонс живая легенда., кто бы, что не говорил.., к сожалению., время никого не щадит!

His pride and enthusiasm went with that knockout by Tarver, that was it..

he was so quick to protect that chin

Roy in my top 5 I don’t care what nobody say

There was an arrogance that Jones exhibited which I found irritating. However, I found no joy in watching him getting KOed. His KO losses were scary. I hope as time continues he will be ok.

This hurt to watch. You can see the rapid decline from the precision scalpel he once was.