Badou Jack ... what a career

Basically just the knockdowns.

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Badou Jack has always had very good technique. It's what kept him in this fight. Makabu was much stronger. But Jack kept jabbing, throwing combinations to the body and throwing straight rights with his guard up high. He'd move to the left out of punching range and fire that right hook. Jack did the same thing to Adonis Stevenson. It looked a little smoother then, of course, because that was five years, 15 pounds and a number of punishing fights ago.

All things considered, it was really an excellent win. If any of us had our heads split open and had been beaten up like Jack was a few years ago by Browne, followed by the Pascal fight, I doubt we'd be able to drive a car and keep it in the proper lane.

Jack is a true warrior. You can see in the clip Makabu was still unsteady when he was trying to congratulate the other team. Both guys took punishment in every round. It was a hard-fought win. I'm very happy for him.

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If ... as you are throwing a punch ... your opponent moves out of position ... and as you turn to reset yourself you get hit in the mouth ... and that happens about a hundred times ... you tend to lose your balance.

It's disorienting to get punched in the mouth as you're in the process of resetting yourself. He turned Makabu, and turned him, and turned him, as he punched him in the mouth, all night.

Larry Holmes used to call it making an opponent "dizzy."

Makabu's "balance" had a lot to do with Jack's movement, and hitting Makabu in the mouth every time he tried to reset.

When Jack was stationary, Makabu knocked him around pretty good and didn't look off-balance.

 

In another thread, you said you thought Jim Corbett was underrated and would give Joe Louis a tough fight.
Go watch Corbett-Courtney again and get back to us.

Jack-Makabu was a very good fight.