Veteran multiple champion handed seventh defeat in 12 fights
Roy Jones Jr. lost for the seventh time in 12 fights when suffering a 10th-round knock out defeat against Denis Lebedev in Moscow on Saturday.
The 42-year-old former multiple world champion was caught with a flurry of punches in the final round of their light-heavyweight non-title bout.
Four fierce lefts did the damage before a final right hand prompted referee Steve Smoger to wave it off, before Jones then collapsed to the canvas moments later.
He said: "I really don't know what I'm going to do now. I'm going to think about it.
Great fight
"It was a great fight. I love Moscow and hope to come back here again. Denis is a good fighter but I think overall, it was a close fight.
"I just lost concentration near the end and didn't see his punch coming."
Lebedev, 31, improved his record to 22 wins with 17 knockouts and one defeat, suffered against German Marco Huck in his previous fight for the WBO cruiserweight title in December.
"I was prepared for a long fight," he said.
"I knew it would be a tough fight because Roy is a legend. People, who had said it would be easy, just don't know anything about boxing."
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