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Undefeated Middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs takes on Jarrod Fletcher for the WBA Middleweight Title on Showtime Boxing
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00:00To be continued...
00:30he's rapidly scaled to the peak of his division but last time out he nearly stumbled
00:37now danny garcia looks to settle any doubt he's still the man on top in his way stands
00:45the resilient lightning rod salka who has fought with honor for his country serving a
00:50decade in the u.s military now as he enters the fight of his boxing career will lightning
00:55strike in the form of an unlikely upset victory or will the champ remain undefeated and reassert
01:02his dominance plus lamont peterson's had exhilarating wins and excruciating losses and through it
01:09all he's managed to capture and keep a share of the junior welterweight crown but is he
01:14overlooked by the press and public when debating the elite fighters he hopes another superb
01:19performance will solidify him as one of the best at 140 pounds and he's called the miracle
01:26man for a reason at death's door less than three years ago daniel jacobs engaged in the fight for
01:32his life and won now he tries to become the first cancer survivor ever to win a world title will his
01:39inspiring story have a fairy tale ending tonight brings together title holders and true men of
01:46character who have overcome adversity both in and out of the ring on showtime championship boxing
01:52all right fans here we go it's time for the bout you've all been waiting for
02:05this crowd going wild
02:08he is in trouble look at his legs
02:12the crowd is electric
02:14it's a gorgeous
02:44summer night here in new york city we are here in the borough of brooklyn
02:48as we get set for a triple header the junior welterweight champion of the world
02:52returns to new york in this latest edition of showtime championship boxing
02:57we do come to you tonight from brooklyn back in the barclays center great pace for a fight
03:03knowledgeable fans they want action they will boo when things slow down but they will get loud when
03:09guys throw their hands and that is what we expect tonight
03:12and hi everybody i'm brian kenny welcome to brooklyn and showtime championship boxing tonight's card one unified world champ and two on the cusp of challenging the best in the world leading the way Danny Garcia the world champ at 140 pounds
03:28Garcia though comes in with a little something to prove after a razor close win over mauricio
03:32another close win over mauricio herrera now we just saw herrera a month ago on the canelo alvarez pay-per-view undercard herrera looked terrific again pointing out that Garcia maybe didn't have an off night but that herrera will make trouble for anyone tonight Garcia takes on another unheralded opponent in rod salka it's an over the weight bout and will be ten rounds as none of the trinkets are at stake but of course everything is at stake to remain viable as a ring magazine champ
04:02against lamont peterson or maybe in the future move up to welterweight maybe challenge floyd mayweather he must win tonight let's bring in the team al bernstein mario rinaldo and paulie malignaggi al we've seen this hundreds of times you figure a fight's going to go a certain way and we do figure it's going to go a certain way tonight but frequently the opponent quote unquote does not get the script yeah we have seen that this year chris al jerry the upset over ruslan provodnikoff in a fight many didn't think he was going to win and fighters that had came came in and did very well
04:32even though they didn't win the fight like kamagai against robert guerrero and of course mauricio herrera against danny garcia now in the case of danny garcia he doesn't want even a close fight he and his father have made it very clear that they think tonight against rod salka who is not a top 10 140 pounder that they need to win and win by knockout and be impressive and they said that the burden is on them to do that so garcia in the main event lamont peterson right there in the co-main
05:02we figure they're getting matched up here paulie what are they up until against tonight well you know both salka and santana are not very well known but here's the thing styles make fights salka is a good boxer he likes to use the ring and garcia has shown a little bit of trouble against guys who use the ring and know how to be slick and box and around the ring and move around the ring so you know it'll be interesting to see if garcia can make those adjustments against a guy like salka with santana it's a bit different you see lamont peterson we saw had trouble with the big punching power of uh lucas matisse then again who wouldn't
05:32at the same time i guess santana can bring a little bit of punching power to the table but he's also a guy who when you box him can sometimes uh have lapses and and not get off as much as he'd like to i used to spar santana very heavy hands when i boxed him it would a lot of times it would limit his punch output but at the same time a lapsing concentration and one time i i got knocked down in a sparring session against santana so so he's got his strengths and weaknesses it's up to peterson and it'll be up to garcia to make those adjustments to his opponents i thought you guys never said that outside of the ring you're not supposed to admit that on either side
06:02it's whatever to me he's in a suit i can admit it he's a star look at the haircut on the guy everything's good i box good too
06:10moro uh this we hope is the start of some real high level collisions at 140 and 160 yeah no doubt about it all of us wanted to see lamont peterson face danny garcia tonight in a title unification fight the mercurial boxing gods had other plans now should they prevail tonight and they are the prohibitive favorites it hopefully sets up a showdown later in the year or an early
06:322015 as for our opener at 160 pounds it really features one of the most inspirational the best
06:40feel-good story to come around in boxing in a long time in daniel jacobs a brooklyn-born fighter who tonight
06:47hopes to become the first cancer survivor and the first native of brooklyn to win a version of a title
06:53here in this borough of new york he faces in jared fletcher a guy who's ranked higher than he is
06:59and the guy who has come all the way from australia not to be a part of the feel-good story
07:04he respects daniel jacobs but he wants to become champion and take the belt down under
07:09and he also wants to end the losing streak of the australians of the past few weeks in the sweet science
07:13so it's a very interesting matchup and it's going to be interesting to see if daniel jacobs
07:19is able to culminate again the improbable comeback and i'm not going to go down that road of what belt is
07:24what will you go out of your minds with what belt is at stake however the middleweight champion is
07:28now miguel cotto uh golovkin is there too he's a killer sergio martinez has not retired he's the
07:34former champion just a throne kid chocolate is there too so for daniel jacobs to step up into that
07:39territory there are some fascinating fights possible yeah daniel jacobs has some great things in his
07:44favor uh he is a a great offensive fighter he has a big base in new york city his story is a remarkable
07:51one and so when you in a division that at one point looked very thin not so anymore the middle
07:58weights are getting a lot of attention and just below them the daniel gills and people people like
08:02that who also are good fighters so yes uh the winner of this fight fletcher or jacobs they have some
08:08options all right again i'm going to get started for the triple header right now we invite you to
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08:42we come to you tonight from the barclays center here in brooklyn new york here's the lineup for
08:50tonight's edition of showtime championship boxing our main event danny garcia versus rob salka again
08:55that's 10 rounds over 140 so it's a non-title bout co-feature lamont peterson edgar santana and we
09:02open up the triple header with middleweights one of the many wba belts in this weight class that is seems
09:07to be up for grabs i mean tonight alone daniel jacobs taking on jared fletcher morrow aikid aikid morrow
09:14ranallo albertstein and paul amandashi take it away all right bk we are getting started with this 160
09:21pound matchup there is 30 year old australian jared fletcher he was the captain of the australian boxing
09:27team of the 2008 beijing olympics making his american and showtime debut and despite being ranked higher
09:33than his opponent he's taking a big step up in class he's the first of three big underdogs on the
09:38card who hope tonight is their day he wasn't favored to win his last fight either but he went to monaco
09:43in february and upset ukraine's maxim bersak in a foul-filled affair
09:48and in the ring now sporting the number 42 on his road paying tribute to the legendary jackie
09:59robinson and daniel jacobs feels he has a lot in common with jackie robinson robinson went on
10:05through lots of adversity to break the color barrier in major league baseball played at ebbets field in
10:10brooklyn the well-documented recovery of daniel jacobs who just three years ago was on his deathbed
10:16suffering from a rare form of bone cancer osteosarcoma he is back and tonight wants to
10:23make history this could prove to be a very emotional night for the 27 year old from brooklyn new york
10:31now let's go to the tail of the tape
10:36when you look at these numbers one is very very important and that is the reach advantage that
10:41daniel jacobs has why because fletcher needs to use his jab and be effective from the outside and
10:48if jacobs can use his reach advantage to negate that it will certainly be a tougher night for jared
10:52fletcher and here are the rules for tonight's fights there is no standing egg count no three
10:57knockdown rule the referee or doctor can stop the fight a fighter cannot be saved by the bell in
11:03any round if an accidental foul or headbutt causes a fight to end before the end of the fourth round
11:08it's a no decision after four rounds they go to the scorecards for a technical decision and the
11:13next voice you will hear is ring announcer jimmy lennon jr
11:22ladies and gentlemen a very good evening to you and welcome to barclays center here in brooklyn new
11:29york as we have a big night of action coming your way and it's all brought to you by oscar de la
11:34hoya's golden boy promotions and showtime sponsored by corona la cerveza masfina and
11:41at&t mobilizing your world this bout coming away is our first world title attraction of the evening
11:49and it is presented in conjunction with greg cohen promotions and is sanctioned by the wba
11:55president hereto mendoza supervisor renzo banario introducing our three judges scoring this bout for
12:02great side from las vegas nevada adelaide bird from avon connecticut glenn feldman and from san juan
12:10puerto rico nelson vasquez a referee in charge he'll be giving instructions after the introductions
12:19michael griffin all right fans here we go 12 rounds of boxing for the vacant wba middleweight
12:29championship of the world introducing you first on my left fighting out of the red corner wearing
12:38black trunks with gold trim joining us from brisbane queensland australia he weighed in at already 159 and
12:47one quarter pounds his record stands at 18 wins one loss with 10 wins coming by way of knockout tonight
12:55making his first attempt at a world title ladies and gentlemen here is the wba international middleweight
13:00champion ranked the wba number two world contender introducing jared
13:15and his opponent across the ring on my right fighting out of the blue corner wearing navy blue
13:22chunks with gray trunks with gray trim fighting out of and representing his hometown of right here in
13:28brooklyn new york he weighed in at 159 and one half pounds his record stands at 27 wins one loss with 24
13:39wins coming by way of knockout tonight making his second attempt at a world title ladies and gentlemen
13:45here is the wba number three right middleweight contender introducing daniel the miracle man
14:03what's got a referee in charge now to give instructions michael griffin
14:09all right both you men receive my instructions in the dressing room
14:12i want you to obey my commands remember to protect yourselves at all times we're going to touch
14:19gloves now you're boxing at the bell god bless you both referee michael griffin giving the final
14:28instructions we are set for 12 rounds or less in the 160 pound division here at the barclays center in brooklyn
14:38the bell at round number one jacobs in the navy blue and gray the colors of the brooklyn dodgers again paying
14:49homage to the legendary jackie robinson while jared fletcher sports black with gold and immediately
14:56jacobs looking to establish the jab fletcher able to slip the jab through the guard
15:02it's interesting that we're just moments into this fight but it's fletcher attacking
15:10daniel jacobs and i really thought fletcher would try and make him come to him we'll see how that plays
15:14out as long as fletcher would attack behind the jab like he said he wanted to fight behind that jab a
15:20lot you know maybe he'll just trying to pick up the momentum right away and take the crowd out of it
15:26big supportive crowd here for daniel jacobs in brooklyn fletcher has won six in a row he said he didn't
15:31travel all the way here and spend months in the gym just to get a paycheck he's not just an opponent
15:36he says he came here to take that title back to his fans in australia he hopes to become the 14th
15:41fighter from down under to win a version of the championship now garcia or make that jacobs and that
15:49won't be the first time tonight i'm sure i confused the two daniels for danis as jacobs now going on the
15:55attack jacobs landed a nice left hook a moment ago that could be a difficult punch for fletcher to
16:01um defend oh that left hook to the head of fletcher and down goes fletcher
16:10the other toughest opponent he faced fletcher was billy jo saunders and saunders exhausted him in two
16:32rounds this is a similar start to the saunders fight in it i just said it before it happened the left hook
16:38is the big punch fletcher has to defend he couldn't do it there and danny very effective with
16:44these catch and shoots a lot of times uh fletcher will start throwing some combinations to the head
16:48but danny keeping his gloves up and answering right back in the catch and shoot defensive defense to
16:53offense fashion final 45 seconds of the opening round left hook to the body left hook upstairs a
17:01combination by jacobs fletcher almost went down again as his glove almost touched the canvas
17:08a fantastic start for the brooklyn native teeing off on fletcher working the body going upstairs final 30
17:15seconds
17:21nice punch selection by jacobs going upstairs and downstairs mixing the uppercuts with hooks and
17:25fletcher's hurt jacobs has 13 first round knockouts including in his last fight against milton nunez in march
17:3310 seconds left there's a right hand left to the body terrific start for brooklyn's daniel jacobs
17:56bucket and water come on
18:03good good good
18:05hey tie him up if he gets like that again don't just stand there like that tie him up okay
18:11you have to pick your hands up and go in on it how many fingers
18:15we're just putting out that the left hook was the punch jacobs could land and wanted to look for
18:21and here he comes with it a good short left hook nice punch and that was what sent
18:28fletcher down but then later in the round using the jab beautifully as the rangefinders
18:35as paulie pointed out a good selection of punches by daniel jacobs it wasn't a one-dimensional attack
18:41and fletcher really didn't know how to cover up or defend he didn't and punch will come in from all
18:46angles all over the place and uh jacobs landed some beautiful combinations that round round number
18:51two underway fletcher's been in new york the past two weeks getting acclimated to the time difference
18:56brisbane 14 hours ahead of the big apple we still don't know if he's going to completely get acclimated
19:01to the power of daniel jacobs fletcher really needs to make some adjustments here he's got to
19:06make danny he's got to make daniel at least second guess himself with the punches he's throwing right
19:12now daniel not paying for any offense that he's throwing and it's coming fletcher's way and without
19:17causing that doubt fletcher's gonna have a lot of problems dealing with the confidence
19:20and the speed and power of jacobs both were amateur standouts
19:25fletcher winning the 2006 commonwealth games in his native australia beating the likes of light
19:35heavyweight champion adonis stevenson along the route jacobs turning southpaw now
19:44that's interesting given the success he's had as a righty and daniel does fight southpaw he
19:49you rarely see it but i remember i've seen entire sparring sessions with daniel's
19:53uh done it at the southpaw and done it very well
19:58haven't seen it in a long time yeah because i don't remember seeing it in a fight yeah interesting
20:02left hand to the body by jacobs there is the jab there's the rangefinder from fletcher jacobs moving
20:13goes to the body again with a straight left to the breadbasket counter shot by jacobs he's very reactive
20:20very alert daniel very sharp tonight
20:26now there's some of the combination punching when fletcher's at his best
20:30he can throw some pretty nice combinations and that's going to be imperative if he's going to
20:35stay in this fight fletcher started boxing at the age of 10 at the age of 17 earned a scholarship at the
20:41australian institute of sport in the high performance program spent seven years honing his skills in the
20:47sweet science and he said this trip to new york he drafted it when he was 10 years old to fight for
20:53a world title and it didn't go well in the first round but here you see the right right hand through
20:58the high guard by fletcher now has jacobs on the ropes momentarily jacobs started boxing at the age of
21:0415 at the sterrett city gym here in brooklyn the same gym where former two-time heavyweight champion
21:10current vladimir klitschko stalker shannon briggs trained under 30 seconds left in the second plenty
21:18of action here between fletcher and jacobs
21:28this is the kind of movement we expected from fletcher it's got to be effective movement right
21:32now it looks like daniel's more so making him panic than anything else jab through the high guard by
21:39jacobs as we head to round number three and now have we seen any of your keys to victory thus far
21:47well we sure have for daniel jacobs uh important to cut off the ring he's done that very effectively
21:53did use his jab and we saw it in the replays too to set up punches and landing the left hook you bet
21:59that's what sent fletcher down in round number one okay what i want you to do as for jared fletcher
22:04every round that you are actually entering the jab important he's not really gotten it off well he
22:11has not lunged in which he sometimes does we did see him land a very nice right hand toward the end
22:17of the last round we'll see if that's a harbinger of things to come for him
22:30and he threw under damage of all right everybody out come on come on come on
22:42round number three underway united states has been hostile territory for australian fighters in
22:49recent weeks a couple of weeks ago gannetti golovkin who was the active number one man in the 160
22:55pound division especially under the wba umbrella defeated daniel gill a couple of weeks back last
23:02weekend sergey kabalev vanquished blake caporello and so far fletcher in tough against daniel jacobs
23:09yeah it has not been a good week for fighters down under here in the united states now one good
23:14thing for jared fletcher uh he has gotten himself at least somewhat righted after that horrendous first
23:20round you see he's trying to apply the pressure here and he's gotta be gotta be a bit more effective
23:27and again it it's imperative that he causes doubt in in daniel jacobs offense if you gotta land some
23:32kind of sharp counter and make daniel pay for something that he's throwing fletcher getting
23:36aggressive but part of the solving the problem of this equation will be to cause doubt in jacobs
23:44since experiencing his lone loss at his first in his first crack at one of the sanctioning bodies
23:49bobbles against three to one underdog dimitri pirok via a third a thunderous right hand jacobs has
23:55reeled off seven consecutive victories none of which have required the services of the
24:00judges and not to make any excuses for his performance against pirog the woman who helped
24:04raise him his grandmother cordelia jacobs passed away the week of the fight the funeral was the day
24:09after the fight and really in hindsight jacobs said he should have never been in the squared circle that
24:15night nice nice one two through the guard by jacobs
24:34jacobs through his uh going through his cancer journey became a very uh spiritual guy oh and what
24:42deepak chopra is a big influence on me reads his books and he believes that it's helped him in
24:47terms of self-confidence and centering himself yeah chopra in my uh former home of toronto this weekend
24:53uh setting a record for global meditation the world's biggest meditation wow yeah okay i did not know you
25:00you could use some meditation i could you're a pop culture whiz there's a stiff jab executed by jacobs
25:07so the output of jacobs this round has really gone down and flesher have done a good job of getting
25:14aggressive and putting jacobs on his back foot this is the first round in fact in which flesher has
25:29thrown almost as many punches as jacob just four less in the running total
25:43well cancer survivor daniel jacobs started the get of the ring foundation and along with the ronald
25:48mcdonald house new york they've launched the miracle fight night fan experience where a patient battling
25:53pediatric cancer in new york city is getting to sit ringside as jacobs special guest tonight and
25:59here he is cody burns with a terrific opportunity to take in the fights tonight and we wish cody and
26:06his family and all of the youngsters at ronald mcdonald house godspeed and their battle against the big
26:12c it's so inspiring to see jacobs ko cancer and i know almost all of us have been affected by cancer
26:19in one form or another and it would be so great to see that insidious disease finally vanquished
26:29this is round of four between daniel jacobs from brooklyn new york
26:54jared fletcher now living in brisbane australia fletcher coming forward
27:02double jab delivers the right behind it
27:07so fletcher busy now has jacobs along the ropes jacobs able to pivot back to the center of the ring
27:13and daniel just not entering the same way it makes you wonder if something's wrong with his hand or
27:17something i mean not saying that it is but yeah the output has really dropped from jacobs and almost
27:21inexplicably oh but he tagged him with that left on the jaw another left hook by jacobs
27:29the hook is the answer for jacobs in this fight sweeping right hand to the rib cage by jacobs has
27:35fletcher longer rubs fletcher trying to bob and weave but is getting tagged some of the punches bouncing off
27:40his arms wild right hand by daniel jacobs and just as you mentioned it probably the output increases yeah
27:47oh i was just about to say oh three punch combination on the face of fletcher but you know fletcher's
27:53taking these punches better than he did in round one and they're a touch rider for daniel jacobs right now
27:59the edge and power punch is a big one for jacobs of course he has thrown many and landed many
28:18fletcher's game plan you know is to take jacobs into the later rounds jacobs only been 10 rounds one
28:33time and not many times past five and even daniel told us in the meeting he said you know i have never
28:38if you've never been there you don't know exactly how it's going to be i'm confident in my training but
28:42you know you don't know until you get there yeah he has not gone longer than five rounds in five
28:48years in his five rounds since returning from cancer he has fought a total of 14 rounds while now added to
28:54the three and four that we see here tonight exactly there's a left hand to the upper torso of fletcher
29:00another stiff left hand to the midsection by jacobs targeting the body fletcher with the jab
29:12jab through the guard by fletcher now fletcher walking down jacobs
29:26fletcher ducks underneath that right hand misses with a right of his own coming up on the final
29:3110 seconds of the fourth frame here at barclays center in brooklyn new york straight right hand down
29:37the middle by jacobs first 12 minutes are in the books
29:49all right hey bimble yeah good good starting to get in there just don't go get caught up on that rope
29:55with him all right you can't enjoy him okay when you get in there and he's starting to get away from
30:02all right
30:06daniel jacobs has used the left hook to great effect the knock down in the first round and then here
30:12you'll see him come come up with that left hook now it's a pretty wide punch it did land well on the jaw
30:18but it wasn't as short and compact as the first left hook that we saw in this fight that knocked fletcher
30:23down and there you can see again a left hand that but fletcher you see taking these punches a little bit
30:29better now and uh has gotten himself right it kudos to fletcher for getting through that first round
30:38check it out let's go wait for the bell wait for the bell
30:43fifth round begins one of the problems plaguing the sport of boxing the number of champions in each
30:49division we talked about these two vying for a vacant title in the wba middleweight division triple g
30:56the man to beat at 160 and it brings back the memories of what ray boom boom mancini once said
31:01about the proliferation of titles how many worlds are there exactly you don't need to be neil degrasse
31:05tyson to know the answer very good another pop culture reference you're on fire tonight
31:1230 seconds god in the fifth
31:15and fletcher now looking to go upstairs through the guard
31:18hit him up okay there's a stiff jab by jacobs but fletcher again coming forward any tendencies
31:28you're beginning to notice here polly as we are into the first minute of the fifth round
31:34not so much tendencies but you know we've seen fletcher try to pick up the pace and pick up the
31:38aggressiveness uh in the last few rounds uh after the early beating he caught but the the problem is
31:43when daniel decides to turn it on anytime he does decide to turn it on he's able to get the better
31:48of fletcher he's able to put flesh on his heels and so it's it's almost a matter of they're so
31:53different oh there's some shots for fletcher fletcher with his best combination of the fight
31:58finish your thought polly the the talent gap is it's pretty wide that when daniel decides he wants to
32:02win the round it's almost he just has to put the effort in but right now he's going back into this
32:06wall and fletcher's able to jump on top of him yeah the best sustained sequence for jared fletcher
32:12thus far in the fight a minute and a half gone in the fifth steps back and we get back to that
32:20issue of longevity in fights for jacobs we're about to head into a round soon that he hasn't seen since
32:26he's come back to the sport and that's the only real reason i can think of where daniel will go into
32:30these walls is because he hasn't been all these rounds uh and maybe he's leery of the fact that it
32:34might go 12. fletcher has thrown 43 points in this round and jacobs only 18. and yet there's a right cross
32:41by jacobs that may have been the best punch of the round final 60 seconds of the fifth so an uptick in
32:48the output for fletcher fletcher attacking the body with a left hook that was on the belt yeah i agree with
33:00fletcher i don't think that was low he wasn't you know sometimes a fighter will prevent you from
33:14getting your punches off and the laws are because of what the other fighter is doing but a lot of
33:17times it just seems like daniel just goes with these laws on his own oh sharp right hand and that put
33:23fletcher on inline skates momentarily now jacobs sweeping right hand fletcher though trying to
33:29fight back he's still on spaghetti legs 10 seconds left in the round fletcher corraled in the corner
33:37and down he goes for the second time of the fight
33:48and daniel jacobs with just two seconds left in the fifth round
33:53has made history and again we understand that it's just a version of the title al but that does not
33:59take away from what this man has been through not at all and for him to share this remarkable moment
34:05and you can feel the love in this building for him a long journey long road daniel's mental
34:10daniel jacobs who went through 25 rounds of radiation treatment in order to beat cancer can
34:16lay claim to a spot on the crowded throne in the wba middleweight division with the 25th
34:23knockout win of his career how apropos is that
34:41tremendous sportsmanship you wouldn't expect anything less from these two valiant warriors
34:46as we look at the final show stats yeah the power punching when you land at 55 percent in your
34:54power punches that is remarkable and uh and that's what daniel jacobs did in this fight and for fletcher
35:01a big issue was he was not effective with this jab he needed to be in this fight
35:05and there is daniel jacobs son nathaniel who is a huge paulie malignaggi fan by the way and what a
35:18moment this is for both father and son and what a moment it is for cody burns
35:25here from the ronald mcdonald house new york who is battling
35:29his own form of cancer with a smile on his face
35:39in this last round fletcher as the round was winding down and as fletcher was actually doing
35:46well in the round right his best round in the fight and a right hand got in there by daniel jacobs
35:51and that was the punch that started up the problems for fletcher and we'll take one more look at it
35:56polly and it had been the left hook that was bedeviling him before this time it's the right
35:59hand well that's the thing daniel kept switching stances so he's able to hook from the opposite
36:03stance and that's basically what he does right there he throws a right hook from the south post
36:06stance and hurts him yeah fletcher was a little bit surprised by that and then uh toward the as we
36:12get farther into toward the end of the round this is where jacobs would really put it on and ultimately
36:19send him to the canvas and again it's like i said earlier anytime daniel really wanted to turn it on
36:24it was like he could get the better of the action whenever he just chose to turn it on
36:27and that's why at times it was weird to see him just take those loans and yet again we take a look
36:33at it when this fight would end and jacobs again here switched to lefty then switched to righty so
36:41he did show him different looks and it was an issue for jared fletcher and whether he was tiring or
36:47not tiring it didn't matter because daniel jacobs got the job done in that round
36:50the miracle man daniel jacobs in his hometown of brooklyn captures a version of the wba middleweight
37:01title there's his significant other natalie has been through him throughout his entire ordeal let's
37:05go to jimmy lenny jr to make it official ladies and gentlemen with the time of two minutes 58 seconds in
37:15round round number five a referee in charge michael griffin stops the contest he is the winner by way
37:23of technical knockout he is now the wba middleweight champion of the world daniel the miracle man
37:33all right let's go to jim grave for what promises to be an emotional interview
37:49all right mo thank you very much miracle man would you truly describe from where you were to where you
37:55are just three years ago as a miracle it's a true it's a miracle but first off i want to give one
38:01glory to the man above um but this journey has definitely been a long one and i'm truly blessed
38:07to have an opportunity to perform in front of these amazing brooklyn knights yes sir brooklyn we did it
38:15and to have this moment here at home briefly when you were on your deathbed yeah were you even
38:25thinking about boxing let alone being a champion well my family my son right here my baby boy was my
38:30first priority and then uh coming back to the ring was one of my second biggest motivations and
38:36it pushed me through i looked at cancer and i looked at being paralyzed as just another opponent and what
38:41boxing has taught me is just that mental strength of any any opponent that you have just to overcome
38:46and that's what i did and to all those people at home who don't have hope who are suffering from
38:50cancer what's your message now that you've accomplished this i hope that i can be just
38:55that much of a hope and inspiration to you that no matter what you go through no matter what your
38:58position is even if you can't beat it just be happy and grateful that we have life every day god is
39:04good god is amazing trust me when i tell you
39:07let's talk about the fight and take a look now in the first round and tell us it almost went
39:14really really quickly with that big left hook you through yeah um i knew the guy was a tough customer
39:19so when i heard him and he didn't go out immediately i wanted to pace myself i didn't want to get tired
39:25trying to knock him out but he was he was he had a good jab like i expected he held his own but i just
39:30didn't you know i trained so well for this fight i couldn't see a way where he could defeat me tonight
39:35and now we take a look at the end of the fight here your second knockdown as we jump ahead you
39:39got back on track yeah we got back to crack um i seen i caught i think it was the left hook that i
39:43might have caught it with and we worked so hard with throwing punches and bunches but sitting down
39:48on our punches not just throwing i missed the shot right there but hey we came back with a good one but
39:53you know it was a tough customer man and i'm i hope he's okay and all we can do is just pray for the
39:57best a lot of great fighters at 160 pounds cotto glovekin quillen what would you like to do now
40:05i want to fight peter quillen into brooklyn in brooklyn new york here at the barclay center
40:10i believe he's here somewhere so and that's are you calling him out that's my guy i love pd but pd
40:15you know it's all about the business we seen each other the other day and it was all loves but the
40:19brooklyn fans deserve it and it's going to happen soon hopefully daniel congratulations you've been a
40:24great inspiration to a whole lot of people across the world thank you very much all right mo it doesn't
40:29get any better than this no it doesn't jim a terrific fighter an amazing human being daniel
40:36jacobs joins the likes of al bummy davis mike tyson riddick bowe shannon briggs eddie mustafa
40:42muhammad and dab judah as champions who've called the brooklyn neighborhood of brownsville home
40:48he ko cancer he ko jared fletcher tonight to win a version of the title let's go back to bk
40:53mr i think you put the belt thing in the proper perspective but it is a long way back for daniel
40:59jacobs if you recall before he became the miracle man he was known as the golden child because of an
41:03impressive amateur career won four golden glove titles here in new york city it was derailed by
41:09the loss to dimitri pirog almost ended of course his life almost ended by the cancer and the tumors in
41:14his back but now back in the world-class mix as jim gray just pointed out you got the champ in koto you've
41:20got kennedy golovkin and then you got kid chocolate who's in the top three he wants kid
41:24chocolate next uh the politics of boxing being as it is it seems like the kid chocolate fight
41:29is something that could absolutely happen only 27 years old after all he's been through back in
41:36the mix and big things ahead for daniel jacobs congratulations to him still to come lamont peterson
41:41taking on edgar santana and later our main event danny garcia the junior welterweight champion of the
41:46world taking on rod salka looking ahead saturday september 13th we will be back in las vegas
41:53it's being billed as mayhem the rematch between floyd mayweather number one in the world pound for
41:57pound and marcos maidana once again our all-access team will be in place to document
42:02both fighters pre-fight preparations and episode one of all access mayweather maidana 2 premieres saturday
42:09august 30th here's a little bit of what you can expect this is the first time they've seen a guy
42:15give me a tough fight if he believes the first fight was rough and this fight's gonna be rough
42:21boy mayweather is a living legend chino has the heart the power to upset the world
42:35all right ladies and gentlemen are you ready for mayhem
42:38all access mayweather versus maidana 2 saturday august 30th at 9 30 only on showtime
42:45just a little over a month away we know we're in the heat of summer but number one pound for
42:49pound is back in the ring friday september 12th we'll get started fight week coverage including
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42:59have a live prelim fight as part of countdown live leading up to the pay-per-view mayweather
43:04maidana 2 floyd mayweather marcos maidana rematch after their slugfest back in may floyd
43:10made to work very hard in that fight by the way new start time we're going to get you in started
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