{"id":31141,"date":"2025-09-03T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jones-jr-receives-olympic-gold-medal-historic-rivalry-gestation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:37:31","slug":"jones-jr-receives-olympic-gold-medal-historic-rivalry-gestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/jones-jr-receives-olympic-gold-medal-historic-rivalry-gestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Jr. Receives Olympic Gold Medal: Historic Rivalry Gestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Roy Jones Jr. Receives 1988 Olympic Gold Medal<\/h2>\n\nIn a gesture of great sportsmanship and recognition, South Korean boxer Park Si-hun, who defeated Roy Jones Jr. in a controversial fight at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, gave Jones the gold medal that many considered the American deserved.\n\nThe emotional delivery took place at Jones&#8217; ranch in Pensacola, Florida, two years ago. The news was revealed through a video posted on Jones&#8217; YouTube channel on Wednesday.\n\nJones, who thought he was going to an interview, met Park and his families at the gym on May 30, 2023.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I had the gold medal, but I wanted to give it back to you. It belongs to you,&#8221; Park said through his son, who acted as a translator.<\/p><cite>Park Si-hun<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0808%2Fr111528_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Roy Jones Jr. y Park Si-hun en los Juegos Ol\u00edmpicos de 1988\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Roy Jones Jr., a la derecha, perdi\u00f3 por decisi\u00f3n controvertida ante Park Si-hun de Corea del Sur en la final de la categor\u00eda de peso mediano ligero en los Juegos Ol\u00edmpicos de Verano de 1988 en Se\u00fal. (Foto AP\/Ron Kutz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nPark was declared the winner by a 3-2 decision in the light middleweight title fight in Seoul, South Korea. The decision stunned Jones.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee in 1997 concluded that it had not found evidence to support the bribery allegations against the judges who voted in favor of Park.\n\nDespite not winning gold, Jones received the Val Barker Trophy for the best boxer of the Games. Subsequently, he won titles in four weight classes, from middleweight to heavyweight, and had a professional record of 66-9.\n\nPark retired from boxing after the Olympics, but then became a coach.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Jones Jr. Receives 1988 Olympic Gold Medal In a gesture of great sportsmanship and recognition, South Korean boxer Park Si-hun, who defeated Roy Jones Jr. in a controversial fight at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, gave Jones the gold medal that many considered the American deserved. The emotional delivery took place at Jones&#8217; ranch in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,8242,631,8243],"class_list":{"0":"post-31141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-medal","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-roy-jones-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}