Where Does Roy Jones Jr. Live in Florida? Inside His Pensacola Farm

Where does Roy Jones Jr. live? The former pound-for-pound king of boxing lives on a farm in north Escambia County, outside Pensacola, Florida. It is the same corner of the state where he grew up and went to high school. He fought there two dozen times as a pro. The property has a boxing gym, a swamp with alligators and a large flock of birds. It also doubles as a training camp for other fighters. Here is what public reporting says about the place and the man who never left it.

Key takeaways

• Jones lives on a farm in north Escambia County, north of Pensacola on the Florida Panhandle. Local station WEAR reports that his gym is on the farm.
• The purchase price was not reported. A sports site has described a large house on about 80 acres, but no major outlet has confirmed those figures.
• ESPN reported that the farm holds chickens, peacocks, turkeys, snakes, armadillos, pit bulls and alligators, and that Chris Eubank Jr. trained there for more than a year.
• Pensacola is far from our market. The closest South Florida match for a working farm with a private gym is an acreage estate in Southwest Ranches or Wellington.

Where does Roy Jones Jr. live in Florida?

Jones lives north of Pensacola, in the rural part of Escambia County that runs up toward the Alabama line. Pensacola is on the Panhandle, at the opposite end of the state from the eight counties Pure Equity serves. We do not list homes there. We cover it because the search interest is real.

The public record on the property is thin by design. WEAR, the local ABC station, wrote in 2018 that Jones trains at his gym on his farm in north Escambia County. Fan pages and mapping sites have posted more detail, including a road name. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses, so we stop at the county.

His ties to the area go back to birth. He grew up in Pensacola, the son of Roy Jones Sr. His father was a Vietnam veteran and former club fighter who took up hog farming, according to a biography on Encyclopedia.com. Jones graduated from Washington High School in 1987. He won a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in a decision most observers called a robbery. Then he turned pro in Pensacola in May 1989.

That pro debut set the pattern. WEAR counted his February 2018 bout at the Pensacola Bay Center as the 24th time he had fought in the city. The station called it one more show for a hometown that he never left. That line is the whole story of where he lives.

Inside the reported farm compound

ESPN gave the clearest look at the property in 2021, when Chris Eubank Jr. moved there to train under Jones. The farm holds chickens, raccoons, alligators, turkeys, snakes, armadillos, peacocks and pit bulls, the article said. The alligators roam a swamp area on the land. Jones reportedly hunted down one that got too big and mounted it as a decoration.

Eubank stayed for more than a year before he went back to Britain. His summary of the place, as ESPN quoted it: 'It's a mad house but that's how Roy likes it.'

Jones has also raised gamecocks on the property for decades, something he has talked about openly since the 1990s. Photos of him feeding roosters at home in Pensacola circulate on boxing history pages every few months.

The size of the house and the land is less certain. GiveMeSport, a sports site, has described a 15,000-square-foot home on about 80 acres. We could not find that figure in a newspaper or a property record we trust, so treat it as unconfirmed. What the reliable outlets agree on is simpler. It is a big rural spread with a gym on it, and he has lived there a long time.

Why Roy Jones Jr. never left Pensacola

Most fighters at his level moved to Las Vegas, Los Angeles or Miami once the money arrived. Jones did the opposite. He kept his base at home, brought big fights to Pensacola, and ran his promotional company, Square Ring, from there. The Pensacola Bay Center, a mid-sized arena on the downtown waterfront, hosted many of those cards.

Part of it is family. His father trained him on a farm as a boy, and the farm life, with its animals and early mornings, is what he knows. Part of it is control. A private gym on private land means no distractions and no strangers watching sparring. Eubank's camp showed how that works: a fighter moves in, lives on the farm and trains with Jones every day.

The Pensacola News Journal called him a homegrown talent when he entered the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Yahoo Sports picked up the story. He joined Don Sutton, Emmitt Smith and Derrick Brooks as the fourth Pensacola athlete in a major hall of fame. The city has honored him accordingly, and he has stayed.

The gym on the farm

The gym is the working heart of the property. After his last competitive fight, a win over Scott Sigmon in February 2018, Jones shifted to training and to commentary. Eubank was his highest-profile pupil, but he has worked with other pros there as well.

Jones also stepped back into the ring for one more event, an exhibition against Mike Tyson in Los Angeles in late 2020. He prepared for that bout at home. Since then he has spoken often about the toll of a long career, and the farm is where he has chosen to spend the years after it.

Where else does Roy Jones Jr. live?

There is no reported second home. Jones accepted Russian citizenship in 2015, a widely covered decision he described at the time as a business move. But no outlet has reported that he owns a residence in Russia. His work as a commentator and trainer takes him to fight cities around the world, and then he goes back to Escambia County.

That makes his answer one of the simplest on this list. Where does Roy Jones Jr. live? On the farm, and he has for most of his adult life.

What homes near Roy Jones Jr. cost

North Escambia County is outside our MLS coverage, so we do not have live pricing for it and we will not quote figures we cannot verify. Our data-driven Escambia County page shows what our feed carries for the area.

For a South Florida reader, the closest equivalent to a working farm with a private gym is an acreage estate in Southwest Ranches, the Broward County town that still allows horses, barns and large outbuildings on multi-acre lots. Our feed shows about 120 active listings there with a median list price near $2.9 million, as of September 2026. Homes average about 168 days on market.

Wellington's Palm Beach Point is the other option, with lots that run to five acres and more. The median list price in Wellington is near $925,000 across all property types. You can compare both against the homes with acreage hub and the Broward County page.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Roy Jones Jr. live now?

He lives on his farm in north Escambia County, outside Pensacola, Florida. The property includes his boxing gym, and he trains other fighters there.

Where in Pensacola does Roy Jones Jr. live?

The farm is in the rural northern part of the county, well outside the city limits, near the Alabama line. Fan sites have posted the road, but we do not publish private addresses.

Where does Roy Jones Jr. live full time?

Pensacola is his full-time and only reported home. He holds Russian citizenship but has no reported residence there, and his travel for fights and broadcasts is temporary.

How much is the Roy Jones Jr. farm worth?

No reliable outlet has reported a price or a valuation. A sports site has described the home as 15,000 square feet on 80 acres, but we could not confirm that. Rural land in north Escambia County also trades for far less per acre than anything in South Florida.

Is Pensacola part of South Florida?

No. Pensacola is in the far northwest corner of the state, about 600 miles by road from Palm Beach County. It runs on Central time. Pure Equity serves eight counties on the southeast coast.

Can you visit or train at the farm?

The farm is private. Fighters have trained there by invitation, as Chris Eubank Jr. did, but it is not open to the public.

Do you own an acreage or equestrian home in Southwest Ranches, Wellington or anywhere in Broward or Palm Beach County? Request a free home valuation from Pure Equity to learn what it is worth today. Buyers can browse equestrian homes or see luxury homes across South Florida. For two more Florida sports figures, read where Bubba Watson lives, a few miles away in Pensacola, and where Michael Jordan lives in Jupiter.

Sources

• WEAR, Roy Jones Jr. prepares for final competitive fight in Pensacola
• ESPN, Training with alligators: Eubank Jr.'s preparations on new trainer Jones Jr.'s farm
• Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo Sports, Roy Jones Jr. is a homegrown talent who became 4th Hall of Famer from Pensacola
• Encyclopedia.com, Jones, Roy Jr. 1969

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.