Roy Jones Jr Headlines Boxing/MMA Card

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Roy Jones Jr and his promotion company, Square Ring Promotions, are putting on a fight card on March 21st featuring both MMA and boxing, according to MMAJunkie.com. The boxing portion of the card will feature the 40-year-old Roy Jones Jr against Omar Sheika. Also featured in the boxing portion with be Square Ring’s newest signee BJ Flores.

Omar Sheika is nowhere near a top-tier fighter. His best performances came in losses to Scott Pemberton. Roy Jones Jr doesn’t want to end his career with a loss so that may be the reason Sheika will be making an appearance. It will be Sheika’s second fight in over three years.

The MMA portion of the event features the following:

Seth Petruzelli vs. Doug Marshall
Jeff Monson vs. Roy Nelson
Bobby Lashley vs. TBA
Din Thomas vs. TBA

It seems like a collection of MMA castaways, save for Bobby Lashley but he’s on the other end of the spectrum as he will be fighting in only his second fight as a mixed martial artist. Lashley formerly wrestled for WWE.

The March 21st event will be available on pay-per-view. I can’t imagine many people buying this but it’s a fun idea if there were any fights that were interesting on the card.