DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Felix Trinidad is coming out of retirement again, this time for a shot at Roy Jones Jr.
Trinidad, who hasn't fought since losing to Winky Wright in May 2005 and who's won only two bouts in the last six years, announced plans Monday to meet Jones in January at an undetermined site.
"It's the people's championship," promoter Don King called it, flanked by both fighters at his South Florida headquarters.
Trinidad is a former welterweight, super welterweight and middleweight champion and a national hero in his homeland of Puerto Rico. He took 2½ years off before beating Ricardo Mayorga in 2004, but was dominated when he met Wright seven months later.
He retired again after that fight, but whispers of a Trinidad-Jones possible matchup have been circling for months.
"Most fighters of 'Tito' Trinidad's stature would want a warmup fight after being off for this long," King said. "Not 'Tito' Trinidad."
Trinidad is 42-2; Jones Jr., who scored a unanimous decision against previously undefeated Anthony Hanshaw last month, is 51-4.
"This is going to be one of the most thrilling events we've seen in boxing in many, many decades," King said. "This is about pleasing the people."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
Source: ESPN.com
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