With the win, Jones became the first British-born Light Middleweight World Champion. ``Freddie King'' (Paul's trainer) said after the fight he ``Showed glimpses of absolute greatness and produced a great fight''. Jones joined close friend and boxer Naseem Hamed as Sheffield's second world champion at the time and who was also ringside for the fight he said ``Silkys's done the business tonight what a fight I new he would win but not so easily''.
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