Badou Jack
Badou Jack 
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Badou Johannes Gabriel Jack |
| Fight name | The Ripper |
| Weight class | Super middleweight |
| nationality |
 Swedish
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| birthday | October 31, 1983 |
| place of birth | Stockholm |
| style | Left delivery |
| size | 1.85 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 28 |
| Victories | 22nd |
| Knockout victories | 13 |
| Defeats | 3 |
| draw | 4th |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
Badou Johannes Gabriel Jack (born October 31, 1983 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish boxer , former world champion of the WBC in super middleweight and former world champion of the WBA in light heavyweight. He has Swedish and, due to his Gambian father, also Gambian citizenship.
Amateur career
Badou Jack didn't start boxing until he was 18 and won 150 of 175 fights as an amateur. He was Swedish middleweight champion in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008, and Swedish light heavyweight champion in 2007. He defeated, among others, the top Swedish boxers Erik Skoglund , Babacar Kamara and Kennedy Katende three times . He also won international tournaments in Sweden, Finland and Denmark.
At the European Championships in Bulgaria in 2006 he lost to Oleksandr Ussyk , at the 2007 World Championships in the USA against Ramadan Yasser .
In March 2008 he won the African Olympic qualification in Namibia and then took part as the first boxer for Gambia in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China, where he was defeated on points in the first fight against Vijender Kumar .
Professional career
He started his professional career in Sweden and Finland in 2009 before moving to the US in 2011 and being signed by Mayweather Promotions . He won his first 15 fights in a row, 10 of them prematurely. The defeated opponents included Alexander Brand (17-0) and Farah Ennis (21-1). In the fight for the North American Championship of the NABF in the super middleweight division, he reached a draw against Marco Peribán (20-1) in September 2013.
After an early win against Rogelio Medina (31-4) in December 2013, he surprisingly lost in February 2014 by TKO in the first round against Derek Edwards (26-3).
On April 24, 2015 he won the WBC World Super Middleweight Championship against Anthony Dirrell (27-0) and defended it for the first time on September 12, 2015 on points against George Groves (21-2). In April 2016, he won against Lucian Bute (32-3) retrospectively by disqualification after Bute had been proven in the doping test after the fight that he was taking SARMS . The fight itself had ended in a draw. Jack boxed another draw in January 2017 against IBF World Champion James DeGale (23-1).
On August 26, 2017, he won the WBA World Light Heavyweight Championship by beating Nathan Cleverly (30-3) early . However, he put the title down on September 23 of the same year because he did not want to compete against mandatory challenger Dmitri Biwol .
On May 19, 2018, he boxed a draw, the fourth of his professional career, against WBC World Champion Adonis Stevenson (29-1). In January 2019 he was also defeated on points against Marcus Browne (22-0). The fight was about the WBA interim world championship in the light heavyweight division.
On December 28, 2019, he boxed for the WBA world light heavyweight title, but lost just on points to Jean Pascal (34-6).
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| SURNAME | Jack, Badou |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jack, Badou Johannes Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Gambian boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |