Legend Roy Jones Jr double signed (front cover and inside feature) Ring magazine issue June 2008, also signed by Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz.

Price: £75

Roy Jones Jr. first burst upon the world following a shockingly controversial defeat in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Jones soundly defeat hometown favorite Si-Hun Park in the light middleweight final, the world was stunned when the South Korean boxer was given the gold medal by a score of 3-2. As one boxing expert moaned: "Those blind bums would have given Custer a gold medal after the Little Big Horn."

Undaunted, while Park took his tarnished gold medal and slipped into obscurity, Jones returned home to begin a brilliant professional campaign that would carry him to six world championships, including the most radiant of them all, the heavyweight title. Jones spent the better part of a decade regarded as the premier pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

Jones was Ring magazine's "Fighter of the Year" in 1994 and was voted the "Fighter of the Decade" in the 1990's by the Boxing Writers Association of America. He's the former IBF middleweight champion, IBF super middleweight world champion and former undisputed light heavyweight champion. He made 11 successful defenses in unifying the 175-pound division before moving up to heavyweight to fight John Ruiz. On March 1, 2002, Jones became the first former middleweight champion to win the world heavyweight crown in over 100 years.






Juan Díaz, born September 17, 1983 in Houston, Texas, is a Mexican-American in the lightweight (135 lb) division. His record is 33-1 (17 KOs). He is the former unified WBA & WBO and IBF world lightweight champion, having lost the titles to Nate Campbell on March 8, 2008.

Diaz was 105-5 as an amateur. He thought he had qualified for the 2000 Mexican Olympic team but was informed he was too young to compete in Sydney. He didn't want to wait four more years and turned pro. Díaz made his professional boxing debut at age 16 on June 23, 2000 with a first-round TKO victory over Rafael Ortiz. He won all of his first five fights by KO or TKO. On November 22, 2003, Díaz won the WBO youth lightweight title with a sixth-round TKO of journeyman Joel Pérez.
On July 17, 2004, Díaz defeated Mongolian Lakva Sim for the WBA lightweight title by unanimous decision. Since then, Díaz has defended the title five times. His most notable defence was on April 8, 2006 against undefeated José Miguel Cotto (brother of Miguel Cotto). Díaz defeated Cotto by unanimous decision.. On November 14, 2006, Diaz successfully defended his title for the fifth time against Fernando Angulo of Ecuador. On April 28, 2007 he successfully defended his title against Acelino Freitas by TKO after Freitas forfeited the fight before beginning the 9th round, unifying the WBO lightweight championship with the WBA lightweight title. The fight took place in Mashantucket, USA.

Diaz defeated Julio Diaz, the IBF Lightweight Title Holder on October 13 in Chicago Illinois. Nate Campbell defeated Juan Diaz by SD to become IBF, WBO, WBA Champion, on March 8, 2008 in Cancun, Mexico. This ended Diaz's undefeated streak of thirty-three wins. Diaz's training is supervised by fitness guru Brian Caldwell of Houston Texas.

March 8, 2008 Controversy

1.) Nate Campbell admitted that he was not tested for drugs before or after the fight against Juan Diaz.
2.) That night was Juan Diaz's last day in contract with Don King.
3.) The fight was in Mexico, not in the usual Las Vegas, Nevada for a WBA, WBO and IBF Title Match.
4.) Nate Campbell had never won a world title belt previously and then overnight becomes the WBA, WBC and IBF Champion.