1.   For seven years, Marvelous Marvin Hagler ruled the middleweight class with iron fists.

2.   He could have stayed in the lower middleweight class, where he held the IBF title, but the challenge intrigued Jones.

3.   Bob Arum of Top Rank intends to pursue a unification of the strawweight division similar to what is currently under way in the middleweight class.

4.   Two boxing organizations, the International Boxing Council and International Boxing Organization, have him rated fifth in the middleweight class.