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MIAMI, Florida -- Felix Trinidad will end a two-year retirement to fight Roy Jones next January, fight promoter Don King announced, in a matchup of former champions trying to recapture past glories.
Trinidad announced his retirement after losing to Winky Wright in May 2005.
No site or date was announced for the bout, to be fought just above the super middleweight limit at 170 pounds, but it could come around the birthdays of each fighter.
US veteran Jones turns 39 on January 16. Puerto Rican legend Trinidad turns 35 on January 10.
Trinidad, 42-2 with 35 knockouts, walked away in May of 2005 after losing a 12-round decision to Winky Wright.
"It is true in the past that I was saying I wasn't coming back," Trinidad said. "But I've led a clean life and I'm healthy. I have too much boxing still inside of me... I've said I always wanted to fight the great fighters and I want to fight Roy Jones."
Jones, who won his last fight by decision over Anthony Hanshaw, is 51-4 with 38 knockouts. He was to have fought Trinidad in 2001 but delayed the bout to fight in a unification tournament that saw him lose to Bernard Hopkins.
"Tito is a great champion," Jones said. "Somebody like that is going to challenge you, you would be stupid to turn it down." E-mail to a friend 
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