Maccarinelli Ko's Jones Jr In Moscow

Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli scored a fourth round knockout win over American boxing legend Roy Jones Jr in a non-title cruiserweight fight at the VTB Ice palace in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday night.

The bout was fought at an even pace for the first three rounds until Maccarinelli moved up a gear to deck the 46 year old Jones Jr in fourth round. Jones Jr beat the count but Maccarinelli jumped straight on Jones Jr to finish him off with an uppercut.

The bout was originally billed as a WBA cruiserweight title fight but vice-president Gilberto Mendoza announced no title would be at stake.

Speaking after the fight the Welshman said:

"First of all I’d like to say it was an honour to share the ring with Roy who in my eyes is still a ring legend and I hope that he recovers fully from this,” Said Maccarinelli.

"Regarding my win, I’m over the moon with the performance and it showed that I’ve got the power to hurt anybody. This fight was at cruiserweight where I’ve held a world and I’ve also dropped down to light-heavyweight where I fought Juergen Braehmer for a world title, I’m comfortable at either and wherever the best opportunities are I’ll take them,”

“I said before the fight that I fight best when the pressure is on and coming out to Russia where Roy has become a favourite certainly put the pressure on me to perform and I did that,”

“I knew that the opening rounds might be a bit cagey, but I knew that once I sized him up and got my range that it was only a matter of time before I would take him out. My jab was good and I clipped Roy with a right hand early on which he brushed off but I knew that it hurt him. Then in the fourth I started to connect with uppercuts and he was starting to go so I knew I’d got him and then I landed the hard right to finish him off.”

“That ends the year nicely and now I want to keep busy in 2016 and get another world title shot to become a two-time world champion.”

Other results

WBA Continental Super Middleweight title Dilmurod Satybaldiev w pts 12 Roman Shkarupa
Light Heavyweight Stanislav Kashtanov w tko 8 Bernard Donfack
Heavyweight Alexander Ustinov w tko 5 Konstantin Airich
Middleweight Dmitry Chudinov w tko 4 Benjamin Simon
Middleweight Magomed Madiev w pts 6 Martin Fidel Rios
Super Middleweight Alex Hughes w pts 6 Murad Dalkhaev
Junior welterweight Zack Davies w ko 4 Alexander Saltykov
Heavyweight Rashid Akzhigitov w pts 4 Igor Pylypenko

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December 12 , 2015