Round-by-Round: Daniel Jacobs vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. - December 20, 2019

[Perseus]

Lol

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

Lucky danny jacobs... jr was just getting going

[RonnyJ]

What an awful end. Abraham lost 1 gallon of blood with a total broken jaw. Jr has a bit of nose bleeding and says no mass. Retire.

[Ricky]

Well this has escalated quickly

[Ricky]

Lucky danny jacobs... jr was just getting going

[skanksta]

Weight bully gives up as soon as someone stands up to him.
He's got to retire.

[Ricky]

Well another nice win on the KO. Chavez is a joke. Didn't boyher to make weight, got exhausted throwing some bombs that Jacobs shook off. so just quit in his stool, home for a nice warm bath and a cold beer.


Senior face palming in his seat was his hilarious.

[Perseus]

Sounds like Sergio is getting angry ringside.

It can only get worse Sergio, stay calm.

[squiggy]

Jacobs always seems to catch a raw deal.

[skanksta]

His start doesnt' seem so impressive now does it ?

The tosser decided to come in overweight and give it a go for a few rounds and quit it didn't work. Massive tosser.

[margaret thatcher]

Jesus f@cking christ Chavez must've been around 200 in there

[margaret thatcher]

Jacobs always seems to catch a raw deal.

Well, he had it pretty good here, an extra million on top of an already big payday for an easy fight where he took little damage. Plus he got off work early,

[lazboy]

Here’s my assessment: Chavez tried his best and expended all his energy, strength and peds over 6 rounds. Even though he wasn’t setting a blistering pace that was Chavez in maximum overdrive/Roid rage. Following that he got hit towards the end of the round, realised the miracle man wasn’t going anywhere and decided to go elsewhere himself.

[margaret thatcher]

I mean, why fight another 7 rounds when you can go do some cocaine and get robbed by hookers instead?

[lazboy]

I mean, why fight another 7 rounds when you can go do some cocaine and get robbed by hookers instead?

Spot on and exactly what a fighter should be doing - A lot of casual fans don’t understand this.

[RonnyJ]

Here’s my assessment: Chavez tried his best and expended all his energy, strength and peds over 6 rounds. Even though he wasn’t setting a blistering pace that was Chavez in maximum overdrive/Roid rage. Following that he got hit towards the end of the round, realised the miracle man wasn’t going anywhere and decided to go elsewhere himself.

This is exactly what happened

[Ruthless-RKO]

Former two-time middleweight world titlist Daniel Jacobs made a successful debut in the super middleweight division Friday night as he made the overweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. quit after the fifth round at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix.

When the fight ended abruptly with Chavez, the favorite of the largely Mexican and Mexican-American crowd, refusing to go on, spectators rained boos on him and pelted the ring with debris. When Chavez left the ring, people in the crowd of about 10,000 continued to throw things at him in an ugly scene.

Chavez said he quit because he had a broken nose. His lawyer, Miguel Leff, told ESPN's Salvador Rodriguez that Chavez will have reconstructive surgery and will be hospitalized at least 24 hours. Regardless, Jacobs had begun to take it to Chavez, who also quit after nine rounds in a 2015 fight with Andrzej Fonfara.

"They won't let me enjoy my victory," Jacobs said as he was being protected from objects flying into the ring. "I never ran and I never will, but I will duck these beer cans."

Jacobs returned to the win column after losing a competitive decision to Canelo Alvarez in a 160-pound title unification bout in May. Jacobs had been having trouble making weight in recent fights, so he moved up to the 168-pound division to face Chavez, also a former middleweight titlist.

But instead of facing a man his size, Jacobs was in the ring with a much bigger man who had failed to make weight Thursday and probably was close to being a cruiserweight on fight night.

Whether Chavez would even make it to the ring was riddled with uncertainty. He had to obtain a temporary restraining order from a Nevada court on Tuesday that forced the Nevada State Athletic Commission to lift his suspension for refusing a Voluntary Anti-Doping Association random drug test on Oct. 24 that left the fight in limbo and led Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn to move the bout from Las Vegas to Phoenix. The situation also forced Hearn to sign former two-time middleweight world title challenger Gabriel Rosado to fight on the undercard knowing he would be on standby to face Jacobs in case Chavez was not allowed to fight.

Even after Chavez's suspension was lifted, the fight was again in limbo Thursday when Chavez was 172.7 pounds at the weigh-in, a whopping 4.7 pounds over the 168-pound super middleweight limit. He had to give up $1 million of his purse to Jacobs so that Jacobs would fight him. Jacobs could have invoked his contractual right to fight Rosado instead because of how far overweight Chavez -- who has had weight issues for several bouts -- was.

"To me it wasn't my debut at super middleweight because to me he was a cruiserweight," Jacobs said. "Even his jab was heavy. Physically, he was a bigger man, so I tried my best to be elusive and box, but he was heavy. I did my best to counter him and slowly but surely I got my counterpunches in there and he quit."

Chavez made plenty of excuses following the fight, including accusing Jacobs of fouls that did not occur, and even had the audacity to call for a rematch.

"I was getting close but got head-butted above the left eye," Chavez said. "Then I had problems because of all the blood. I came over to the corner and couldn't breathe. He elbowed me and head-butted me. Very tough fight. I felt I couldn't go because I couldn't breathe properly. The ref wasn't calling anything.

"I apologize to the fans. I'd love to have a rematch. I got head-butted. He fought a dirty fight and [the referee] didn't even take a point away. He would have been able to continue doing the dirty work."

Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. backed up his son.

"With all due respect to the fans of Phoenix, Arizona, I disagree with you. My son was making a competitive fight and he was winning," Chavez Sr. wrote on social media. "Unfortunately, he was head-butted and elbowed. He has a broken nose and will undergo surgery now."

Chavez was very aggressive at the outset. He punched to the body and used his massive size advantage to push Jacobs around in the first two rounds. Jacobs, who was with a new head trainer in Fareed Samad for the first time after splitting with longtime cornerman Andre Rozier due to a financial dispute, got his jab going in the third round and appeared to get into a rhythm.

As Jacobs (36-3, 30 KOs), 32, of Brooklyn, New York, let his punches flow to the head and body in the fourth round, Chavez began to slow noticeably.

Chavez (51-4-1, 33 KOs), 33, of Mexico, had some success in the middle of the fifth round, but it was short-lived, and overall it was another good round for Jacobs, who cut Chavez over the left eye and gave him a bloody nose. After the round, Chavez returned to his corner but did not sit on his stool. As Chavez's team worked on his cut and nose, he did not seem to want to continue.

Finally, referee Wes Melton walked to his corner and Chavez indicated that he did not want to go on. As Melton waved the fight over, the boos cascaded throughout the arena and fans threw liquids and debris into the ring, some of which hit members of the DAZN broadcast team at ringside.

According to CompuBox, Jacobs landed 61 of 223 punches (27%), and Chavez landed 35 of 116 (30%).

Friday night marked just the second fight for Chavez in more than two years.

After losing by shutout decision to Alvarez in May 2017 in a fight in which Chavez did not appear to even try, Chavez had beaten only journeyman Evert Bravo by first-round knockout in a light heavyweight fight on Aug. 10 in Mexico.

By quitting the way he did, it is hard to envision Chavez back in a major fight. Jacobs, however, is in line for another big one, possibly a title shot at super middleweight against either Callum Smith or Billy Joe Saunders. All three of them are promoted by Hearn and fight on DAZN, which means they would not be complicated bouts to make.

More serious discussion of those fights will come in the future, but on Friday, Jacobs wanted to try to enjoy his win.

"I am comfortable with the victory. Obviously, they won't let me enjoy it," Jacobs said of the crowd. "I know they're not mad at me. They're mad at Chavez, but I did my part."


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[turn2stone]

Nice uppercut did the damage.

[Ruthless-RKO]

[Ruthless-RKO]

[jamesmcdonnell]

What a fornicating disgrace to the sport chavez Jr is.

Cheating, lazy, gutless no mark trading off his illustrious father's name.

[Paci]

What a fornicating disgrace to the sport chavez Jr is.

Cheating, lazy, gutless no mark trading off his illustrious father's name.

Going in the footsteps of The great Julio Ceásar Chavez ain't easy. And he didn't need to. He does also lacks the heart for real hardwork.

[Onetimeonly]

Chavez sr was shameful in the Randall rematch.

[DrDuke]

Chavez was having not the worst fight, but just desided to quit after taking the damage.

[Cent0089]

Chavez looked roided af. Danny handled the fight well. Can he Beat Jermall Charlo ?