Jackson Asiku
Jackson Asiku
Saw the article on him in boxing news today, shame he might have to go up in weight to fight as none of our feathers dont seem to want to go near him. Says in boxing news that he could face Alex Arthur later this year, doubt that will happen! Respect to Callaghan who went up in weight to take him on and to McKeever to challenge him after obviously Knowing his credability. In it Asiku says he is confident of beating Scott Harrison around the 6th and beating Nicky Cook in the 1st and doesnt think 2 division world title challenger Nedal Hussain punches that hard! he still considers himself unbeaten as of his 3 loses all was debatable hometown decisions & that was a split decision to future IBF superfeather champ Gairy St Clair, Thailands Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym(43-3) in Bangkok who has challenged twice for world titles againts Pacquaio & Pereira, & the one to Hussain who he dropped. And remember these fights took place when he was still rather inexperienced. I believe Asiku would be to much for & and well beat Harrison (obviously now) and our next best feather on paper Cook. Give this man a chance at his own weight instead of him having to go up weights to find anyone with balls to fight him. If the Arthur fight does happen I believe Asiku beats him too
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hitman_hatton1
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Jackson is a class fighter and he proved it while raw versus former IBF challenger Hussein and future IBF 130 champ St Clair. Officially both are losses but I had him losing to Hussein and beating St Clair. Really good fighter to watch & I'm disgusted that British feathers are too shit scared to face him.
Apart from a handful of fighters, most of our domestic boys have TOTALLY UNREALISTIC world title dreams. Look at Hunter. First clean punch he took from a rusty Molitor and he was through. Even gave up in the end.
Right now the leading Brit for a world title shot is Alex Arthur. And all he talksh about ish "getting the weakesht of the world championsh".
Apart from a handful of fighters, most of our domestic boys have TOTALLY UNREALISTIC world title dreams. Look at Hunter. First clean punch he took from a rusty Molitor and he was through. Even gave up in the end.
Right now the leading Brit for a world title shot is Alex Arthur. And all he talksh about ish "getting the weakesht of the world championsh".
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hitman_hatton1
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Well, he told me he'd fight anyone and would love to fight Barrera particularly. But how likely is it that he can get a shot at the best at his weight?viciousmaussa wrote:Jackson is a class fighter and he proved it while raw versus former IBF challenger Hussein and future IBF 130 champ St Clair. Officially both are losses but I had him losing to Hussein and beating St Clair. Really good fighter to watch & I'm disgusted that British feathers are too shit scared to face him.
Apart from a handful of fighters, most of our domestic boys have TOTALLY UNREALISTIC world title dreams. Look at Hunter. First clean punch he took from a rusty Molitor and he was through. Even gave up in the end.
Right now the leading Brit for a world title shot is Alex Arthur. And all he talksh about ish "getting the weakesht of the world championsh".
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Max Molyneux
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Max Molyneux
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Some of the comments on here insult the intelligence. Asiku is clearly the avoided man, along with light-heavyweight Peter Oboh, of the current domestic scene. He made a huge impression in this country when he crushed Barking's Marc Callaghan in the first round in Dagenham in November 2005 to win the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title, a title he defended with another chilling first-round dismissal of Liverpool's former British champion Jamie McKeever in Liverpool last June.
Both local favourites were coolly and precisely taken apart.
Since then, work has dried up here for the 28-year-old who left his previous fight base of Australia for similar reasons - he is too good for his own good. In 23 fights, the aggressive, dangerous Asiku has lost only to world class Aussies Gairy St Clair and Nedal Hussein, and world class Thai Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym - all on disputed decisions.
Asiku had Hussein out on his feet in the seventh of a thrilling 10-rounder in Sydney in October 2002, and chased him throughout, only for the hard-hitting local man to get it (closely) on all three cards. "Skinny" Hussein went on to challenge Oscar Larios and Scott Harrison for major world titles. He gave Filipino great Manny Pacquiao one of his toughest fights.
Asiku again forced the action in a cracking eight-rounder with "Superman" St Clair in 2003, and threw much the more punches, but St Clair scored cleverly in spurts to get home narrowly but unanimously.
St Clair went on to win the IBF super-featherweight title with a dazzling points win over South Africa's Cassius Baloyi.
Asiku really wobbled Rakkiatgym in the ninth of another action-packed affair in 2004 - and busted him up - but southpaw Rakkiatgym, who has challenged for the IBF titles at super-bantamweight and featherweight, survived to pick up a unanimous 12-round decision in Bangkok.
Is it any wonder Asiku considers himself unbeaten as a professional? Or can't get any fights?
A 2000 Sydney Olympian (and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist at flyweight in 1998), Asiku stayed on in Oz after the Games and took all of four pro fights to hammer Dublin star Paul Griffin - 17-1 going in - in five stunningly one-sided rounds.
Southpaw Griffin, a former European amateur champion, was based Down Under at the time.
In his sixth fight, "Action" Jackson won the Australian featherweight title with an upset decision over world rated Arnel Barotillo, a title he vacated and later secured a second time with a five-knockdown, six-round destruction of good southpaw Frankie De Milo.
De Milo went the full 12 with Hartlepool's Michael Hunter here.
Asiku went 12 rounds himself in just his eighth fight with a unanimous decision over battle-hardened Kazakhstani Serikzhan Yeshmagambetov. A fight later, he took on the 26-1 Hussein and pushed him those 10 hard rounds. Hussein's only loss had come to that man Pacquiao, whom he had on the floor.
Asiku's competition got no easier when he he tackled the rugged Rakkiatgym, loser of just four of his 55 fights, or the silky-skilled St Clair, loser only to Diego Corrales, Vivian Harris and Leonard Dorin (all major world champions and all on points) going in.
By this time, Asiku was already looking elsewhere for fights and stopped off in his native Kampala in Uganda in June 2005 to flatten Zambian Saulus Kaunda in three rounds for the African featherweight crown. He relocated to England later in the year, and won three out of three in 16 long months since.
Jackson has class and power in abundance. Nobody is queuing up to fight him.
Both local favourites were coolly and precisely taken apart.
Since then, work has dried up here for the 28-year-old who left his previous fight base of Australia for similar reasons - he is too good for his own good. In 23 fights, the aggressive, dangerous Asiku has lost only to world class Aussies Gairy St Clair and Nedal Hussein, and world class Thai Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym - all on disputed decisions.
Asiku had Hussein out on his feet in the seventh of a thrilling 10-rounder in Sydney in October 2002, and chased him throughout, only for the hard-hitting local man to get it (closely) on all three cards. "Skinny" Hussein went on to challenge Oscar Larios and Scott Harrison for major world titles. He gave Filipino great Manny Pacquiao one of his toughest fights.
Asiku again forced the action in a cracking eight-rounder with "Superman" St Clair in 2003, and threw much the more punches, but St Clair scored cleverly in spurts to get home narrowly but unanimously.
St Clair went on to win the IBF super-featherweight title with a dazzling points win over South Africa's Cassius Baloyi.
Asiku really wobbled Rakkiatgym in the ninth of another action-packed affair in 2004 - and busted him up - but southpaw Rakkiatgym, who has challenged for the IBF titles at super-bantamweight and featherweight, survived to pick up a unanimous 12-round decision in Bangkok.
Is it any wonder Asiku considers himself unbeaten as a professional? Or can't get any fights?
A 2000 Sydney Olympian (and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist at flyweight in 1998), Asiku stayed on in Oz after the Games and took all of four pro fights to hammer Dublin star Paul Griffin - 17-1 going in - in five stunningly one-sided rounds.
Southpaw Griffin, a former European amateur champion, was based Down Under at the time.
In his sixth fight, "Action" Jackson won the Australian featherweight title with an upset decision over world rated Arnel Barotillo, a title he vacated and later secured a second time with a five-knockdown, six-round destruction of good southpaw Frankie De Milo.
De Milo went the full 12 with Hartlepool's Michael Hunter here.
Asiku went 12 rounds himself in just his eighth fight with a unanimous decision over battle-hardened Kazakhstani Serikzhan Yeshmagambetov. A fight later, he took on the 26-1 Hussein and pushed him those 10 hard rounds. Hussein's only loss had come to that man Pacquiao, whom he had on the floor.
Asiku's competition got no easier when he he tackled the rugged Rakkiatgym, loser of just four of his 55 fights, or the silky-skilled St Clair, loser only to Diego Corrales, Vivian Harris and Leonard Dorin (all major world champions and all on points) going in.
By this time, Asiku was already looking elsewhere for fights and stopped off in his native Kampala in Uganda in June 2005 to flatten Zambian Saulus Kaunda in three rounds for the African featherweight crown. He relocated to England later in the year, and won three out of three in 16 long months since.
Jackson has class and power in abundance. Nobody is queuing up to fight him.
How can Oboh be avoided, he has been injured for over a year, thats why he has not fought. There has just been an eliminator for a title fight vs him, Brian Magee moved up in weight to challenge for the belt, so he has hardly been avoided. (IMO)bennie wrote:Some of the comments on here insult the intelligence. Asiku is clearly the avoided man, along with light-heavyweight Peter Oboh, of the current domestic scene.
The Brit LHW scene is quite weak, and its not Obohs fault there is a lack of quality to face him, but at the same time, he will have to go to Commonwealth level to get quality opposition
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Max Molyneux
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I don't Insult nothing, I just ask for evidence that Asiku has been ducked and not queuing up to face Is hardly evidence.bennie wrote:Some of the comments on here insult the intelligence. Asiku is clearly the avoided man, along with light-heavyweight Peter Oboh, of the current domestic scene. He made a huge impression in this country when he crushed Barking's Marc Callaghan in the first round in Dagenham in November 2005 to win the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title, a title he defended with another chilling first-round dismissal of Liverpool's former British champion Jamie McKeever in Liverpool last June.
Both local favourites were coolly and precisely taken apart.
Since then, work has dried up here for the 28-year-old who left his previous fight base of Australia for similar reasons - he is too good for his own good. In 23 fights, the aggressive, dangerous Asiku has lost only to world class Aussies Gairy St Clair and Nedal Hussein, and world class Thai Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym - all on disputed decisions.
Asiku had Hussein out on his feet in the seventh of a thrilling 10-rounder in Sydney in October 2002, and chased him throughout, only for the hard-hitting local man to get it (closely) on all three cards. "Skinny" Hussein went on to challenge Oscar Larios and Scott Harrison for major world titles. He gave Filipino great Manny Pacquiao one of his toughest fights.
Asiku again forced the action in a cracking eight-rounder with "Superman" St Clair in 2003, and threw much the more punches, but St Clair scored cleverly in spurts to get home narrowly but unanimously.
St Clair went on to win the IBF super-featherweight title with a dazzling points win over South Africa's Cassius Baloyi.
Asiku really wobbled Rakkiatgym in the ninth of another action-packed affair in 2004 - and busted him up - but southpaw Rakkiatgym, who has challenged for the IBF titles at super-bantamweight and featherweight, survived to pick up a unanimous 12-round decision in Bangkok.
Is it any wonder Asiku considers himself unbeaten as a professional? Or can't get any fights?
A 2000 Sydney Olympian (and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist at flyweight in 1998), Asiku stayed on in Oz after the Games and took all of four pro fights to hammer Dublin star Paul Griffin - 17-1 going in - in five stunningly one-sided rounds.
Southpaw Griffin, a former European amateur champion, was based Down Under at the time.
In his sixth fight, "Action" Jackson won the Australian featherweight title with an upset decision over world rated Arnel Barotillo, a title he vacated and later secured a second time with a five-knockdown, six-round destruction of good southpaw Frankie De Milo.
De Milo went the full 12 with Hartlepool's Michael Hunter here.
Asiku went 12 rounds himself in just his eighth fight with a unanimous decision over battle-hardened Kazakhstani Serikzhan Yeshmagambetov. A fight later, he took on the 26-1 Hussein and pushed him those 10 hard rounds. Hussein's only loss had come to that man Pacquiao, whom he had on the floor.
Asiku's competition got no easier when he he tackled the rugged Rakkiatgym, loser of just four of his 55 fights, or the silky-skilled St Clair, loser only to Diego Corrales, Vivian Harris and Leonard Dorin (all major world champions and all on points) going in.
By this time, Asiku was already looking elsewhere for fights and stopped off in his native Kampala in Uganda in June 2005 to flatten Zambian Saulus Kaunda in three rounds for the African featherweight crown. He relocated to England later in the year, and won three out of three in 16 long months since.
Jackson has class and power in abundance. Nobody is queuing up to fight him.
Mentioning who he faced Is hardly evidence either.
McKeever's from Birkenhead by the way, thats the Wirrial not Liverpool. They stole our accent though.
Lets get it right, callaghan is a super bantam for a start & if cook is a big step up from mckeever I think Asiku has proved his worth againts boxers who are an awfully bigger step than cook anywayhitman_hatton1 wrote:mckeever and callaghan are barely area level fighters.
asiku has fallen short before.
we need to see him against better opposition before we get too excited.
someone like nicky cook is an awfully big step up compared to mckeever and callaghan.