#Canelo boxing rec professional#
Professional career Early career Jacobs vs. Olympic team for the 2008 Summer Olympics, beating Dominic Wade and Shawn Porter (twice) en route, but twice lost the North American Olympic Qualifier Super Middleweight finale to Shawn Estrada. During his amateur career, Jacobs won four New York Golden Gloves championships. In 2006, Jacobs won the United States Amateur middleweight championship, decisioning Shawn Porter in the finals, 32–21. In July 2005 he faced Russian Matvey Korobov at the preliminaries of the 2005 Boxing World Cup, and lost via a third round stoppage. In 2005, he won his second PAL national championship and also won the National Golden Gloves middleweight championship. In 2004, Jacobs won the United States national champion in the 19-and-under division, a PAL national championship, and a National Golden Gloves welterweight championship. In 2003, Jacobs won the Junior Olympics national championship at 154 pounds. Amateur career Īs an amateur boxer, Jacobs recorded 137 wins and 7 losses. Jacobs graduated from Erasmus High School. He was raised by his mother, Yvette Jacobs, his grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, and his aunts. Jacobs was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He is particularly known for his exceptional punching power, with an 82.8% knockout-to-win ratio, and is stylistically considered an all-around fighter with good movement and hand speed. Īs of September 2021, Jacobs is ranked as the world's eighth-best active super middleweight by The Ring magazine, sixth the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and third by BoxRec.
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He went on to make a full recovery after spending 19 months out of the sport, meanwhile recovering from severe operation-induced injuries generally perceived as crippling. Nicknamed the " Miracle Man," Jacobs' career was almost cut short in 2011 due to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. He is a two-time middleweight world champion, having held the IBF title from 2018 to 2019 and the WBA (Regular) title from 2014 to 2017. Moretti, who judged the first fight in favor of Golovkin, would this time score for Canelo, 115-113, with the other two cards showing 114-114 and 115-113 for Alvarez.Daniel Jacobs (born February 3, 1987) is an American professional boxer. The two would rematch almost exactly one year later, again in T-Mobile Arena, but this time Canelo would eke out a majority decision. Many ringside media would actually favor Golovkin in their unofficial scorecards.
Dave Moretti would see in favor of Golovkin 115-113, and Don Trella would score the bout a draw, 114-114. Many say Canelo got a gift wrapped up with a bow, when Adalaide Byrd, a judge from Nevada notorious for oftentimes wildly off scorecards, scored the bout 118-110, a near shut-out for Canelo. Touting at the time an unblemished record of 37-0, Golovkin put the pressure to Alvarez unlike anyone else have, with Alvarez showing signs of fatigue around round four, while GGG refused to let up. On September 16, 2017, in the recently-opened T-Mobile Arena just a smidge off the Las Vegas Strip, Canelo would go toe-to-toe with The Baddest Good Boy in Boxing, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin. After following wins over Miguel Cotto, Amir Khan, and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., his career would run into a Kazakh hiccup. could hand Alvarez his first professional loss. Only the unstoppable force that was Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Alvarez would dominate, winning every round on the judges’ scorecards up to the ninth round stoppage.Ĭanelo’s star would skyrocket quickly, taking down notable names like Kermit Cintron, Alphonso Gomez, Shane Mosely, and Austin Trout. The boxing world would really meet Canelo for the first time when he would take on Jose Cotto (31-1-1, 23 KO), older brother of the at-the-time red-hot Puerto Rican super welterweight Miguel Cotto.
Age didn’t hold the wonder-child back: in his first 13 fights, which all took place in the span of roughly 19 months, he accumulated 11 knockouts.
#Canelo boxing rec pro#
He would turn pro as a super lightweight shortly thereafter, allegedly due to the fact that his trainers at the time, Chepo and Eddy Reynoso, couldn’t find suitable junior opponents for Canelo. He quickly revealed himself to be a prodigy, becoming the Junior Mexican National Boxing Champion in 2005 at just 15. Alvarez began boxing at either 11 or 13, depending on the source, when his older brother Rigoberto turned professional.
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