Get to Know Super Middleweight World Champion Badou Jack

(Photo Credit: Amanda Westcott/SHOWTIME)
Jack Meets James DeGale in Super Middleweight World Title Unification Sabado, Enero 14 gikan sa Barclays Center sa Brooklyn & Pagkinabuhi sa Showtime
BROOKLYN (Disyembre 20, 2016) – Super middleweight world champion Badou Jackhas endured a long road on the way to his highly anticipated super middleweight world championship unification showdown against Santiago DeGale nga dapit Sabado, Enero 14 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn and live on SHOWTIME.
Jack comes from a unique background for a boxer but has persevered through the same struggles that professional fighters face every day. He’s faced obstacles that few are able to overcome and now, with a huge SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING main event looming, Jack is on the cusp of stardom.
Ang mga tiket alang sa live event, which is promoted by Mayweather Promotions and DiBella Entertainment, magsugod sa $25. Tickets are available now and can be purchased online by visiting www.ticketmaster.com, www.barclayscenter.com o pinaagi sa pagtawag 1-800-745-3000. Tiket anaa usab sa sa American Express Box Office sa Barclays Center. Group diskwento anaa pinaagi sa pagtawag sa 844-BKLYN-GP.
Take a look below at some interesting facts that have led Jack to his Enero 14showdown:

1. Jack was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Gambian father. Siya adunay

six siblingstwo older sisters, two younger sisters and two younger brothers.

2. He started boxing on his own curiosity and has already gotten some of his

younger siblings interested in training. Professional boxing was banned in Sweden from 1969 pinaagi sa 2007

3. Began boxing in 2000 and took quickly to the sport before starting his

international amateur career.

4. Qualified for the 2008 Olympics for Gambia. He remains the only boxer to

ever represent the country in the Olympics and was the flag-bearer and one of three athletes to represent Gambia at the Beijing games.

5. Jack is the first Swedish-born man to hold a boxing world title since

Armand Krajnc held a middleweight title in 2001. The only other Swedish-born world champion was Ingemar Johansson, who famously won the heavyweight world title by knocking Floyd Patterson down seven times in one round on his way to a stoppage in 1959.

6. Came to the U.S. to pursue boxing after the Olympics and first began

pagbansay-bansay sa Gleason personal nga ni Gym sa Brooklyn.

7. Was discovered by former heavyweight world champion Shannon Briggs

ug he temporarily moved to Miami to work with Briggs. He maintains a close relationship with Briggs today.

8. After moving to Las Vegas, Jack met Floyd Mayweather in 2012 samtang

sparring Andre Dirrell and eventually signed with Mayweather Promotions.

9. After winning his world title in 2015, he was a finalist for the Swedish

Athlete of the Year.

10. He traveled to Gambia earlier this year and last year, along with Ishe Smith,

to deliver training equipment and other donations to the country.

(Photo Credit: Instagram.com/BadouJack)
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Ang Showtime kampyonato sa boxing nga® doubleheader begins at 9:30 sa gabii. UG/6:30 sa gabii. PT with junior lightweight world champion Jose Pedraza taking on undefeated contender Gervonta Davis.
Additional action is featured on Showtime hilabihang®and headlined by junior featherweight world champion and Brooklyn-native Amanda Serrano battling former two-division world champion Yazmin Rivas. Ang telecast magsugod sa 7 sa gabii. UG/PT and features Ievgen Khytrov nakigbatok sa Emmanuel Aleem in a 10-round matchup of undefeated rising contenders.
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