Jacobs the best North American Middleweight?

Jacobs the best North American Middleweight?

By M.DeTyrone

Is Daniel Jacobs 31-1 (28KO) the best North American middleweight, in my opinion, yes, he’s the best North American middleweight champion. On Saturday 5, December 2016 he proved that he’s proved it. The boxing media and boxing fans named the Jacobs vs. Quillin event “The Battle for Brooklyn” no the boxing media was mistaken. A good amount of boxing fans witness what was the battle for the best North American middleweight, fought in Brooklyn by two boxers that are from Brooklyn, NYC.

Peter Quillin 32-1-1 (23KO) the former WBO middleweight champion came into the fight with a 68%KO and an KO average .139 meanwhile the WBA world middleweight champion Jacobs 31-1 (28KO) had a KO average of .267 slightly above the KO artists Sergey Kovalev and David Lemieux. In addition, Jacobs being one of the deadliest first round KO artists in boxing took out Quillin in the first round not to my surprise. There has been a doubt about Jacobs’ chin since his fifth round, TKO defeat vs. Dmitry Pirog in 2010 and recently dropped by Sergio Mora, however, he has bounced back strongly and at this moment, he’s the best North American middleweight.

What’s next for Jacobs? Possibly a rematch vs. Quillin due to the fact that some can’t accept the stoppage in which Quillin did obviously looked as a dead man walking. Then there are possible fights vs. Ireland’s Andy Lee 34-2-1 (24KO) the WBO world middleweight champion or his challenger UK’s Billy Joe Saunders 22-0-0 (12KO). There’s also Erislandy Lara the current WBA world super welterweight champion if he decides to move up to the middleweight division., or  boxing fans can witness a Jacobs vs. the over hyped UK’s Chris Eubanks Jr. Don’t expect a GGG or “Canelo” vs. Jacobs due to the politics and business interest in boxing.

One of the many things that we know are that Jacobs after defeating Quillin at the Barclays Center, which is slowly becoming the new Mecca of boxing. Jacobs has solidified his status as the best North American middleweight in boxing in an historic fight city as NYC, in the borough of Brooklyn. Let’s if the USA boxing fans and the boxing media supports Jacobs as they do Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.