Paul Jones
British boxer
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- Born
- 19 November 1966, Sheffield
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- welterweight
- Occupation
- boxer
Paul "Silky" Jones (born 19 November 1966 in Sheffield, England) is a former World Boxing Champion, nicknamed “Silky” for his quickness and defensive prowess. He has a combined professional record of 31-12-1 (11 KOs) in the welterweight, light-middleweight, middleweight, and super middleweight divisions. He defeated rugged American Verno Phillips for the Light Middleweight World Championship on 22 November 1995. Phillips would go on to achieve World Championship status three more times.
Awards and honours
- WBO World Junior Middleweight Champion
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.