Reginald Dennis "Reggie" Jones (born 1951) is a retired

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from the

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, who represented his native country at the

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. There he was controversially eliminated in the second round of the

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division (– 71 kg) by

Valeri Tregubov Valery Tregubov (19 March 1942 – 1986) was a Russian boxer. He competed in the men's light middleweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly k ...

of the

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in a fight he was generally accepted to have won. Born in

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, Jones moved to Newark as a child, attending the public schools and graduating from

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in 1969, where he played basketball and football, as well as running on the school's track team. Jones took up boxing at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba while serving in the U.S. Navy. He won a bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games, two Marines and Interservice titles, and two North Carolina AAU titles. He turned professional after the 1972 Olympics, and 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. After retiring from boxing he settled in

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, to become a social worker with the Essex County Division of Welfare and then for 31 years with the New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services, until his retirement in February 2016.Carter, Barry
"Former Olympic fighter sees gold in young Newark boxer's future"
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'', August 16, 2016. Accessed November 23, 2017. "But Jones, a then-21-year-old Marine lance corporal, did everything right against Valeri Tregubov in their light-middleweight bout.He was in shape. He was aggressive. He cut off the ring, demonstrating how he did it before we watched the Stevenson fight at his home in Summit."

1972 Olympic results

Below is the record of Reggie Jones, an American light middleweight boxer who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics: * Round of 32: lost to

(Soviet Union) by decision, 2–3

Professional boxing record

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, align=left, , - , Win , , align=left, Ray Kates , SD , 12 , 10/03/1979 , align=left,

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, align=left, , - , Win , , align=left, Charles "Hari" Carey , PTS , 8 , 09/09/1978 , align=left,

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, align=left, , - , Win , , align=left, Charles "Akbar Ali" Buckner , SD , 6 , 04/04/1976 , align=left,

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, align=left, , - , Loss , , align=left, John "The Poll" Harris , UD , 6 , 31/01/1976 , align=left,

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Reggie 1951 births Living people American male boxers Boxers from Newark, New Jersey Light-middleweight boxers Olympic boxers of the United States Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1971 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in boxing Sportspeople from Savannah, Georgia Sportspeople from Summit, New Jersey Weequahic High School alumni Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games 20th-century American people