The reason Roy can't quit?

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  1. WalletInspector

    WalletInspector Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Former heavyweight champ Roy Jones Jr. is the latest boxer to take a pounding from the IRS. After it was recently revealed that Floyd Mayweather Jr. was hit with a past due tax bill of nearly $3.4 million, former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. has been hit with an even bigger bill for $3.5 million dollars. Robert Snell of The Detroit News reports that the IRS filed a $629,085 lien against Jones on March 21 with the Santa Rosa County Clerk in Florida. Those taxes are owed from 2009, but there is also another lien, which was filed on February 11, 2008 for $2,946,650 in Santa Rosa County. That bill is for Jones' earnings in 2003 and 2004. Jones returns on May 22 in Moscow against dangerous cruiserweight Denis Lebedev.

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  2. leo_messi

    leo_messi Guest

    To be honest, I dont feel the slightest bit sorry for people like this.
     
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  3. Mandanda

    Mandanda SkillspayBills Full Member

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    Sad to see. My hero as a kid.

    I remember this photo and thinking ''someday i wanna be like him...all them belts around me''. It hurts seeing him get beaten by guys he'd destroy....the Green fight really riles me.

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  4. Scotty321

    Scotty321 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He just needs an excuse to dress up and entertain us lucky fans!:happy


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  5. pathmanc1986

    pathmanc1986 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Interviewer to Larry Holmes

    "How would you like to be remembered Larry?"

    "As a heavweight champio who looked after his money"


    I recall in the build up to Calzaghe and Jones, Roy arrived in New York in his own private jet. If he owed that money and then continued to live like that its just ridiculous and a grown man with a family should know better
     
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  6. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    Sad stuff.

    It makes it worse that Roy seemed like a smart guy who you'd think wouldn't have these problems.

    It's hard to have sympathy for someone who made such vast amounts of money and is just so complacent with it though. This is a guy who had basketball courts in his house...:nut

    How hard is it to pay off you're taxes or at least pay someone a little to do it for you. How hard is it to just put a couple of mill in a money market account?
     
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  7. KingCobra

    KingCobra IBF World Champion Full Member

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    This. Boxers seem to struggle with their taxes more than most celebs..... with the possible exception of Wesley Snipes.
     
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  8. TFFP

    TFFP The Eskimo

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    It's pretty baffling you can be making 10's of millions for one fight and not put away 3 or 4 mill in an account somewhere. I mean yeah, you can **** away the rest all ya want but you've got that safeguard. Moronic.
     
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  9. hagman1989

    hagman1989 the boxing site , try it Full Member

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    whats all this past due tax and **** , if he earned 10 million in 2002 then take the amount he owes in tax early 2003 or whatever , whats with pulling him up on it 7 years late
     
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  10. Lee Mc

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    :deal

    Maybe it's coming from a poor council estate background, but I always make sure that everything I owe is paid and refuse to have a credit card...
     
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  11. destruction

    destruction Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You would have thought someone that comes across as clever as Roy, would have employed an accountant as soon as the chips started rolling in.

    Maybe he was so arrogant he thought the normal tax laws dont apply to him.

    Now he will end up paying far more tax, than if he had employed an accountant!!!:patschWith his reflexes gone and his chin marked fragile, this is not looking a good end.
     
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  12. roe

    roe Guest

    Can't he just bring a new album out?

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIqZKhNY90[/ame]
     
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  13. kurt2006

    kurt2006 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Like in that song I guess he must "...must have forgot" to pay his tax bill.
     
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  14. tazz1234321

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    I agree with this. ****ing pisses me off seeing boxers that have earned millions struggling to pay their taxes years later when there are people that earn much less and manage to sort their lifes out fine. I have the utmost respect for him as a fighter but as a person what a ****ing idiot.
     
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  15. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    :lol:

    So bad, it's good.
     
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