Boxing-Roy Jones Jr gets 1988 Olympic gold medal from the man who beat him


FILE PHOTO: Boxing - Roy Jones Jr v Enzo Maccarinelli cruiserweight fight - VTB Ice Palace, Moscow - 12/12/15 American-Russian Roy Jones Jr during the fight REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/ File Photo

(Reuters) -Roy Jones Jr has been handed the Olympic gold medal he was controversially denied in 1988 in an extraordinary act of sportsmanship by the South Korean fighter who beat him.

Hall of Fame boxer Jones shared a video on Wednesday from two years ago that showed Park Si-hun visiting the American's ranch in Pensacola, Florida to present him with the light middleweight gold medal.

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