Roy Jones Jr's Advice Helps British Fighter Register Big Win

By Terence Dooley

Lincoln's budding welterweight hopeful Steve 'Stone Cold' Swinburn has revealed that he benefited from Roy Jones's ringside advice when registering a six-twos points win over Danny Dontchev at the Hotel de France, Jersey on Saturday night.  Swinburn, now 2-0-1 (1), was given in-fight advice by Jones, who is in the midst of a UK tour and was ringside for the fight.

“I was sat listening to my trainers in the corner and I have looked across where Roy was sitting and he was staring at me,” said Swinburn when speaking to thisislincolnshire.co.uk.  “All of a sudden he then started gesturing and I was like 'What's he doing' but he was urging me to go for the body.

“So while my trainers are telling me what to do, I can see Roy also chipping in and giving his own advice and it was totally overwhelming.  He is an absolute legend, but I took on board what he was saying as well as what my trainers were telling me.  So in the next round I went to the body and it paid off, but I still can't quite believe that Roy was giving me advice,” marvelled the 24-year-old southpaw, who hopes to be back in action before Christmas.

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