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Roy Jones Jr. Vs. Éric Lucas
Roy Jones Jr. vs. Éric Lucas, billed as ''Basketball Jones?'', was a professional boxing match contested on June 15, 1996, for the IBF super middleweight title. Background On May 14, 1996, reigning IBF super middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr.'s next title defense was announced to occur one month later against fringe contender Éric Lucas. However, this defense was no ordinary one for Jones, as it was also announced that Jones would first compete in a professional basketball game for the United States Basketball League's Jacksonville Barracudas, whom Jones played point guard for in addition to his boxing career, with Jones intent on becoming the first athlete to compete in two different sports professionally within a 24-hour day. Jones insisted that the act was not a publicity stunt nor did he intend to disrespect his opponent Lucas, stating "don't take what I'm doing as a stunt. I don't create stunts. I'm doing it because I want to try to do something different in life. I want bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jones Vs Lucas
Jones or Joneses may refer to: People and fictional characters *Jones (surname), a common Welsh and English surname *List of people with surname Jones, including fictional characters **Justice Jones (other) ** Judge Jones (other) *Jones (singer), a British singer-songwriter * Jones of Faerdref Uchaf, a Welsh noble family * Generation Jones, the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965 * Jones (''Animal Farm''), a human character in George Orwell's novel ''Animal Farm'' Places *Jones (Martian crater), an impact crater on Mars *Jones, Ontario, Canada *Jones, Isabela, Philippines *Banton, Romblon, Philippines (formerly as ''Jones'') United States * Jones, Alabama * Jones, Illinois *Jones, Kentucky * Jones, Michigan * Jones, Oklahoma *Jones, West Virginia *Jones Township (other) Arts and entertainment * "Jones" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), an episode of the TV series *"Jones", a song from the album '' Certain Things Are Likely'' by Kissing th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publicity Stunt
In marketing, a publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the event's organizers or their cause. Publicity stunts can be professionally organized, or set up by amateurs. Such events are frequently utilized by advertisers and celebrities, many of whom are athletes and politicians. Stunts employing humour and pranks have been regularly used by protest movements to promote their ideas and campaigns as well as challenge opponents. Organizations sometimes seek publicity by staging newsworthy events that attract media coverage. They can be in the form of groundbreakings, world record attempts, dedications, press conferences, or organized protests. By staging and managing these types of events, the organizations attempt to gain some form of control over what is reported in the media. Successful publicity stunts have news value, offer photo, video, and sound bite opportunities, and are arranged primarily for media coverage. It can be dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing Matches Involving Roy Jones Jr
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
