Between them, boxing greats Mike McCallum and Julian Jackson scored a variety of memorable KO’s. And as we all know, each males received, between them, a handful of world titles. But it’s usually forgotten how KO monster Jackson, referred to as “The Hawk,” was taken out in simply two rounds when he met “Bodysnatcher” McCallum in August of 1986.
And it wasn’t simply the Jamaican’s feared physique pictures that took out the deadly banger from The Virgin Islands.
The 2 met, as unbeatens, on August twenty third, the battle happening on the Conference Middle in Miami Beech. McCallum, good at 26-0, was making the third defence of his WBA 154 pound belt. Jackson was additionally spotless at 29-0, and he was making his first assault on a world title.
In a brief however candy battle, Jackson got here out blazing, his punches visibly troubling, certainly shaking McCallum – Jackson’s bomb of a left hook scoring and doing noticeable hurt. However McCallum was fabricated from super-stern stuff, and he managed to stay cool, calm and picked up because the fireworks exploded. And, in spherical two, McCallum, by much more seasoned and skilled operator of the 2, went to work, on each the top and physique of his challenger.
And McCallum’s precision punching despatched Jackson to the canvas, on one knee. Jackson obtained up, however he was quickly rammed into the ropes, this from a few of the finest combos ever let unfastened by the most effective mixture punchers within the enterprise. Jackson, beneath hearth, was seeking to land a fight-equaliser of a counter, however McCallum as an alternative closed the present along with his blistering pictures to move and physique. After a nasty, however on the identical time, fairly stunning to look at sequence of punches that had Jackson’s head rolling round, the referee had seen sufficient and he dived in. The battle, between two real greats, was throughout after lower than six minutes.
McCallum would rating a famously celebrated, one-punch KO over Don Curry in 1987, whereas Jackson would go on to attain a complete bunch of spotlight reel KO’s over the approaching years. However on the night of August 23 in 1986, McCallum’s educated blows received the day, this as he handled a savage puncher who was taken out mere seconds after he had proven simply how harmful he was.
For the document, McCallum was by no means as soon as stopped in a battle, whereas Jackson was stopped in every of his six losses.
