death_date nationality total birth_date wins death_place realname image name losses ko birth_place height nickname draws reach weight article_title style
4 january 1982 usa american 144 12 may 1906 104 los angeles , california william landon jones gorilla jones.jpg gorilla jones 25 55 memphis , tennessee 5 ft 9 in m 2 on gorilla 13 75 in cm 0 on middleweight gorilla jones
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gorilla jones

william landon jones -lrb- 1906 -- 1982 -rrb- known as `` gorilla '' jones , was an american boxer who held the nba middleweight boxing championship of the world .
although he was nicknamed `` gorilla '' for his exceptional reach , jones is to be distinguished from the original `` gorilla jones '' , who campaigned from 1913 to 1924 and held the world colored welterweight title .
jones was never knocked out although he himself won by 52 knockouts out of 101 wins over 141 total fights .
he was posthumously inducted into world boxing hall of fame in 1994 and the international boxing hall of fame in 2009 .
