Daniel Jacobs
Daniel Jacobs 
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 Daniel Jacobs in action against Michael Walker |
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| Birth Name | Daniel Jacobs |
| Fight name | Golden Child |
| Weight class | medium weight |
| nationality |
 US-american
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| birthday | 3rd February 1987 |
| place of birth | New York City |
| style | Left-hand boom |
| size | 1.85 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 39 |
| Victories | 36 |
| Knockout victories | 30th |
| Defeats | 3 |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
Daniel Jacobs (born February 3, 1987 in New York City ) is an American professional boxer, former world champion of the WBA and former world champion of the IBF middleweight.
Boxing career
He started boxing at the age of 13 and has won 137 of 144 amateur fights. He won the 2004 National Golden Gloves welterweight, 2005 the National Golden Gloves Middleweight and 2006 the US Middleweight Championships. He achieved victories against Austin Trout , Shawn Porter and Martin Murray , among others . In the national Olympic elimination in 2007 he defeated Shawn Porter and Dominic Wade twice, but lost twice to Shawn Estrada, whom he had defeated at the 2006 US Championships, among others.
In December 2007 he played his first professional fight, which he won by knockout in the first round against Jose Hurtado. He was also able to win his next 19 fights, 16 of them prematurely. In addition to a few opponents in the build-up , he also beat boxers with positive records such as Jose Varela (23-5), Michael Walker (19-1) and George Walton (20-3), as well as the eventual world champion Ishe Smith .
On July 31, 2010 he boxed in Las Vegas against Dmitri Pirog for the WBO World Middleweight Championship. In the lead on all three scoreboards, he was finally sent to the boards in the fifth round by a right counterattack by the undefeated Russian. The referee then stopped the fight after a count of 5, although Jacobs shortly afterwards signaled his readiness to continue fighting.
With seven subsequent knockout victories, including against Giovanni Lorenzo , he received another middleweight championship opportunity on August 9, 2014 in Brooklyn . He defeated Jarrod Fletcher early in the fifth round. In April 2015 he defended the title with a tKo victory against Caleb Truax.
In August 2015, he defeated the Californian Sergio Mora in his second title defense early in the second round. In December 2015, he defeated the undefeated Peter Quillin in the first round. In September 2016 he defeated Sergio Mora by dropping out of referee after Mora had already suffered five knockdowns by the seventh round.
On March 18, 2017, he played an unification match in Madison Square Garden with the WBC / IBF / IBO title holder Gennadi Golowkin , who was ranked number 1 in the world middleweight division. Daniel Jacobs lost the fight on points with 113: 114, 112: 115 and 112: 115, but was able to make the fight evenly balanced and interrupted Golowkin's knockout winning streak of 23 early victories in a row.
In November 2017 he unanimously defeated the undefeated Luis Arias, as well as the Poland Maciej Sulęcki in April 2018. On October 27, 2018, he won the vacant IBF middleweight world title against Serhiy Derewjantschenko . He lost this title on May 4, 2019 unanimously on points (115: 113, 115: 113, 116: 112) against Saúl Álvarez .
On December 20, 2019, he won early against Julio César Chávez junior .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Gennady Golovkin | Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) August 9, 2014 - March 18, 2017 |
Gennady Golovkin |
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Serhiy Derevyanchenko | Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) October 27, 2018 - May 4, 2019 |
Saúl Álvarez |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jacobs, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Golden Child |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd February 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , USA |