Spider Jones
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Charles "Spider" Jones (born April 20, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, author, and former amateur boxer.[1] He is a former three-time Golden Glove Champion and was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Jones formerly hosted a talk radio show on CFRB 1010 in Toronto.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1996, Jones was voted "Boxing Commentator and M.C. of the Year" by the Board of Governors of the World Boxing Federation.[2] In 2020, he received the Order of Ontario award, and in 2023 he received the Black Business and Professional Association's Harry Jerome Lifetime Achievement Award.[3]
Books
- Out of the Darkness: The Spider Jones Story. ECW Press (November 2003). Template:ISBN
References
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- 1946 births
- Black Canadian boxers
- Black Canadian broadcasters
- Black Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian sports talk radio hosts
- Canadian talk radio hosts
- Living people
- Canadian male boxers
- Members of the Order of Ontario
- Seneca College alumni
- Boxers from Detroit
- Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
- Writers from Detroit
- Journalists from Detroit
- Writers from Windsor, Ontario
- Black Canadian journalists
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen