39-year-old former two-division world champion Badou Jack “The Ripper” (28-3-3, 17 KOs) outboxed, battered and dethroned WBC cruiserweight champion Junior Makabu (29-3, 25 KOs) getting a twelfth round TKO on Sunday night at the Diriyah Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Jack dropped Makabu in round four and continually beat Makabu to the punch. Jack dropped Makabu again in round eleven and finished him with a barrage of punches in round twelve. Time was :54. Jack is now a three-division world champion.
Makabu was 35 years old? Sure…
My damn site is messing up on me I couldn’t watch it
Yeah, I was having issues, too. I managed to catch the important parts, but I had to restart it a bunch of times
Easy to see why Canelo was targeting Makabu at cruiser weight.
Badou Jack. Weakest 3 division champ this side of Iran Barkley
Bonehead comment. What is your claim to fame Darin? Wait I know the answer… Arm chair 12 pack warrior…
Doesn’t matter what my claim to fame is sport. In fact I hope Badou wins the Bridgerweight title next so I can call him the weakest 4 division champion this side of Adrian Broner
regardless hes a 3 weight division World Champion theres been alot worse world champions then this guy
Not bad – A three-division world champion and maybe you can call that a hat trick.
The better boxer won.
Well done Badou Jack. Hats off!
I live in Sweden, i will let the world know, before this fight, there was not 1 line written about this match in all the national papers. 5 mins. after he won, he is now being recognized as Swedish in the Expressen.. Although he was Born and raised in Stockholm and has a Swedish mother.
Bayou Jack is Swedish? He doesn’t look it.
You should travel more 🙂
Actually, I would love to visit Sweden & Iceland in the summer!
You should, being that you call yourself Nordic….those are actually Nordic countries.
Swedish is a nationality not a race jack a_ _! What color are Americans? Riddle me that.
Unfortunately, some people have a very definite answer for that
So USS Haze Gray, if I move to China would that make me Chinese? I don’t think so & neither would the Chinese!
Never would have thought that the guy who got destroyed in one round by Derek Edwards would end up three time, three weight world champion like Jack has. A wonderful career he has had.
….anyone else constantly make the mistake of calling Badou ‘Beau Jack’ or just me?????
well thats part of the problem with todays fans and fighters just because you lose doesnt mean you cant come back and be a champion this is why todays fighters dont want to take risk because they want to protect their records
@Boxing Historian: So true. And the fans end up not seeing the good big fights.
The day is drawing near where the highest majority of pugilists called ‘multi-division world champion’ will be recognized as acronym ‘belt collectors.’ Whereupon, their feats will be as important as [ in Boxiana ] as a cassette player in vehicles today or Bernie Madoff to investment securities. Additionally, the 12Rounds era will looked upon and reminiscent of a time when Fistiana was abandoned on a mountain top [ by notable Pugilists and longstanding invested insiders ] awaiting for Gladiatorial integrity and honour ], to properly airlift Fistiana from such a nonsensical duration.
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Thought this guy was done years ago, not bad still managing to win titles at 39. Remember that forehead cut, bout as nasty as it gets
Good dude. Humanitarian
No big surprise
I’ll give Badou Jack credit, he put on a solid performance, but Makabu shouldn’t have even been champion, as Thabiso Mchunu was robbed against him last January.
I believe Jack is the only fighter to win major world titles at super middleweight, light heavyweight, and cruiserweight. That’s not a bad distinction at all.
What about James Toney?
@Thomas: Toney won middle, super middle & cruiser, but also other organizations titles as well. 90 fights, never stopped. Great boxer.
Badou Jack Still getting title shots. Good win though.
Is Badou Jack a first ballot Hall of Famer?
Makabu is a nice guy but he was the weakest Champion at Cruiserweight and a very vulnerable fighter.
So Richard Rivera (Popeye The Sailor Man) gave Badou a tougher fight than the champion, Makabu, even though Popeye had to come up from 175 to 195 for that Badou fight.
.First Muslim to be 3 weight champ. Congrats
Opetaia in 2!
James Toney won major world titles at super middleweight and cruiserweight but not at light heavyweight (unless you want to count the WBU strap he won by stopping Earl Butler).
Hi Walter – Also at middle, IBF, the big win against Michael Nunn.