Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson
Data
Birth Name	Julian Jackson
Weight class	Light middleweight, middleweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	September 12, 1960
place of birth	St. Thomas
style	Left delivery
size	1.79 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	61
Victories	55
Knockout victories	49
Defeats	6th

Julian Jackson (born September 12, 1960 in Saint Thomas , US Virgin Islands ) is a retired boxer from the Virgin Islands. He is a former world champion of the WBA in light middleweight , former two-time world champion of the WBC in the middleweight division and is one of the 25 toughest punchers of all time ( Ring Magazine ).

Professional career

Jackson turned pro light middleweight in February 1981 and won each of his 29 fights by August 1986, 27 of them prematurely. On August 23, 1986 he boxed in Miami Beach against the also unbeaten Mike McCallum (26-0, 23 K. o.) For the world title of the WBA in the light middleweight division. He lost, however, by dropping out of the referee in the second round, as McCallum started a long series of blows against Jackson, which Jackson persevered in his double coverage and apparently looked battered. Immediately after the cancellation, Jackson protested loudly, who, according to his own statement, just wanted to wait until McCallum had exhausted himself and then hit back.

After two subsequent knockout victories, he was allowed to fight again on November 21, 1987 in Las Vegas for the now vacant WBA world title, which McCallum had resigned to move up to middleweight division. As his opponent, the South Korean and number 1 in the WBA world rankings, In-Chul Baek (41-1, 37 knockout) was determined. Jackson won the fight by knockout in the third round and was the new world champion.

He defended the title by knockout in the third round against Buster Drayton (33-10), knocked out in the eighth round against Francisco De Jesus (26-2) and knocked out in the second round against Terry Norris (21-2), he also won five non-title fights by knockout.

On November 24, 1990, he put down the WBA title and boxed on the same day in the middleweight division for the WBC world title against the British Herol Graham (43-2). In the duel held in Spain, Graham completely dominated the fight and won the first three rounds. Jackson also suffered swelling in both eyes which almost caused the referee to stop the fight in the break between rounds 3 and 4. However, he gave Jackson one more round the chance to make the fight more balanced, otherwise he would break off the fight. However, Graham also dominated the fourth round and drove Jackson into the corner of the ring, from which Jackson sensationally stretched Graham to the ground with a right just 40 seconds before the end of the round and won by knockout. The precipitation is considered to be one of the most brutal and impressive knockouts in boxing history.

Until the end of 1992 he defended the title by knocking out in the first round against Dennis Milton (16-2) and Ismael Negron (16-8), by knocking out in the fifth round against Ron Collins (21- 1) and by unanimous victory over Thomas Tate (24-1).

After a knockout win in a non-title fight against Eddie Hall, he defended his title on May 8, 1993 in Las Vegas against the also very powerful Gerald McClellan (27-2, 25 knockout). In the fifth round, Jackson, who was leading on points, landed a low blow, which resulted in a brief break in the fight and a warning. After the fight was released again, McClellan managed a sensational knockdown, in which Jackson fell under the ring ropes. He came up when he counted eight, but was knocked down again shortly afterwards and suffered a bleeding cut injury, whereupon the referee stopped the fight. The Ring Magazine chose the precipitation for Knockout of the Year .

After three wins in a row, Jackson played a rematch against Gerald McClellan on May 7, 1994 in Las Vegas. This time Jackson lost after only 1:23 minutes in the first round, after he had already been counted standing badly beaten and shortly afterwards was knocked down, which caused the referee to stop the fight.

In December 1994 he defeated the Ecuadorian Luis Buitron (25-2) by knockout in the third round and on March 17, 1995 he got another chance for the WBC world championship middleweight belt against the undefeated European champion Agostino Cardamone ( 23-0). The title had become vacant after Gerald McClellan rose to super middleweight division. Jackson won the title by knockout in the second round after struggling with difficulties in Round 1.

Jackson, however, had thus reached the climax of his career; because already in the first title defense on August 19, 1995 in Las Vegas, he lost the title through a knockout defeat in round 6 to Quincy Taylor (25-3). After four wins in a row, including against North America champion Leonardo Aguilar (15-1) and the Mexican Eduardo Gutiérrez (24-4), he lost in January 1998 by knockout in the ninth round against the former WBO and later IBF world champion Verno Phillips . After another knockout defeat in May 1998 against Anthony Jones (38-8), he ended his active career.

predecessor	Office	successor
Mike McCallum	World Light Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) November 21, 1987 - November 24, 1990	Gilbert Delé

predecessor	Office	successor
Roberto Durán	World Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) November 24, 1990 - May 8, 1993	Gerald McClellan

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerald McClellan	World Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) March 17, 1995 - August 19, 1995	Quincy Taylor

Web links

• Julian Jackson in the BoxRec database