Reggie Jones (boxer)

Reggie Jones

Medal record
Representing  United States
Men's Boxing
Pan American Games
	Cali 1971	Light Middleweight

Reginald Dennis ("Reggie") Jones (born 1951) is a retired boxer from the United States, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics. There he was controversially eliminated in the second round of the men's light middleweight division (– 71 kg) by Valeri Tregubov of the Soviet Union in a fight he was generally accepted to have won.^[1]

Jones was born in Savannah, Georgia to Mary and Milton Jones Sr. He received his formal education in Newark, New Jersey, graduating from Newark's Weequahic High School in June 1969. While at Weequahic he took up boxing at the South Ward boys club in Newark under the director Mr. Williams, he also got his boxing style from heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier of whom he was a devoted fan.

Jones won many fights and received numerous accolades for his ring skills prior to and after the Munich Olpympics. While in the Marines, he won many Championship bouts – to name a few – two-time Marine Champ, two-time All Armed Service Champion, two-time North Carolina Gloves Champion, two-time North Carolina AAU Champion, All-American Middleweight Champion, Pan-American and Olympic Trials Champion.

As a pro, he became the New Jersey State Middleweight Champion when he beat Bobby Patterson over 12 rounds. He would hold that title for the next two years, before he lost to fellow 2010 Inductee Rusty Rosenberger. Before he ended his career, he would be in with the likes of Mustafa Hamsho, whom he fought a draw with, and Bobby Czyz. Now as a social worker of New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) for more than 25 years, Reggie continues to serve our nation, caring for and watching over the neediest children, ensuring that future generations have access to the same opportunities that helped Reggie reach his goals.

Professional boxing record

Notes

1. "Schande! Schande! Schande!". TIME. September 11, 1972. Retrieved 2009-02-20.

References

• Professional boxing record for Reggie Jones from BoxRec