| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Competitor for United States | ||
| Men's Boxing | ||
| Pan American Games | ||
| Bronze | Cali 1971 | Light Middleweight |
Reginald ("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]
A resident of Newark, NJ, he won a bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games. Boxing under the name Reggie Amid Muhammad he turned pro on January 17, 1974, and retired in 1982 after 26 bouts (16 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw).
Jones had joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. He spent much of his active duty boxing on the international circuits on behalf of the corps and has medals to show for it. After a few post-Olympic bouts, he lost interest in the sport and got some college under his belt.
Reginald Dennis Jones was born in Savannah, Ga. to the parents of Mary and Milton Jones Sr. He received his formal education in Newark, N.J. graduating from Newarks 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.