Former well performed amateur Middle 27yr old Jarrod Fletcher has chalked up 5 stoppage wins in his short pro career against fairly tame opposition. This trend looks set to continue against his next 2 opponents. 4/2/11 V Aswin Cabuy in Sydney. 18/2/11 V Tevita Vakalalabure in Melbourne. The 40yr old Fijian has had 1 fight in the last 9 years. In 1993 he was stopped by Jeff Malcolm in 3 rds. It's good to get some wins on the board early in a career, but isn't this becoming a little overpadded ?
Fletch is good to watch, was a top amature back in the day! But surly they could step him up a littler earlier? I mean his no Rigo but still?
he had a bad shoulder injury. he is just building a record now. look to see him fight some hard fights by the end of the year
I could be a contender: Jarrod Fletcher waits for his big break by Mike Colman - Courier Mail - 4th Feb 2011 This content is protected IT'S a funny game, boxing. One day you're a nobody, the next your gloved fist connects with the right chin at the right time and you're a somebody. A somebody who everyone wants to knock unconscious. Take Garth Wood for instance. Just over a year ago no one knew him from a bar of soap. Not in a boxing sense anyway. Any recognition he had was due to a short and relatively undistinguished rugby league career. After 25 games for the Rabbitohs and Tigers over eight years, Wood turned to boxing but in his early 30s and with all the finesse of a claw hammer wrapped in electrical tape, he was at long odds to make his mark there either. Getting a late call-up to The Contender television show changed all that. After brawling his way to the final, he outmuscled Kariz Kariuki to win a car, $250,000 and, most valuable of all, a fight with Anthony "The Man" Mundine. If anyone ever needs a lesson on how the fight game works, just get a copy of Mundine's record. Like Wood, Mundine was an ex-rugby league player but unlike Wood, everyone knew his name. When Mundine put down the footy and picked up a pair of gloves, boxers past, present and never was were climbing over each other to get into the ring with him. Little wonder Mundine never made good on his promise to head overseas to fight the best. He could stay in Australia and make a fortune fighting the second best. And third and fourth. Gerrard Zohs, Darmel Castillo, Crazy Kim, Lester Ellis, 37-years-old and six years between fights . . . it was a licence to print money. Until Garth Wood came along. Before he knocked Mundine out, Wood's biggest payday was under $20,000. They reckon the r-match will earn him $1 million. But that's not the end of it. All of a sudden Wood is now The Man; the one that everyone else is chasing. The one whose chin has a big target on it. Yesterday a young bloke from Brisbane caught a plane down to Sydney on the trail of Garth Wood. He reckons all he has to do is knock out about 10 other blokes before he catches him. Tonight at the Croatian Club in Punchbowl, Jarrod Fletcher, 27, will fight Indonesian journeyman Aswin Cubuy. Two weeks later he'll take on Fiji's Tevita Vakalalabure in Melbourne. And so it will continue, a schedule of 10 fights in the next six months. Fletcher is the perfect example of the vagaries of boxing. Unlike Wood or Mundine he's not new to the game. He's been fighting since he was 10 years old. He had 180 amateur fights and won the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medal in Melbourne, beating future Olympic gold medallist James Degale along the way. After representing Australia at the Beijing Games he turned pro, winning his first three fights by knockout before dislocating his shoulder 12 months ago. He's had two more fights following reconstructive surgery and won both of them by KO as well. And by his own admission, he's a nobody. "That's what gets me about Garth Wood," he says. "He's a footy player who was in the right place at the right time. I've been a boxer all my life, done everything the right way, knocked out everyone I've fought, and no one knows who I am. "I'm not knocking Garth. He's a rough, tough boy who's taken his chances and good luck to him, but I'd fight him and Mundine tomorrow if they'd be in it and I reckon I'd beat them both." The operative words there are "if they'd be in it". Mundine has spent the past decade avoiding fighters who could knock him off his perch and now that Wood is on the gravy train he'll want to stay there as long as he possibly can. And should he come up against Fletcher that might not be too long. Good judges say he is the real deal. He's athletic and strongly built for a middleweight. His record speaks for his punching power. The key to the door, like it was for Wood, is getting a shot and making the most of it. "It's all about having some luck," he says. "Garth Wood wasn't the best boxer on The Contender but he took his chance. Same when he fought Mundine. Mundine should have given him a boxing lesson but he let his guard down. "That's all I need, an opportunity. The plan is I keep knocking blokes out until they have to notice me, and I'll do the rest." This content is protected
Looking forward to seeing this kid fight , beating Chunky De Gale is not to be sniffed at . Good luck Jarrod and i hope you stay injury free .
The kid is going to have a hard time getting opponents Down Under. Can't see too many wanting to face him. Good luck...
Jarrod to keep knocking 'em out from Fraser Coast Chronicle - 7th Feb 2011 HERVEY Bay boxer Jarrod Fletcher was at his destructive best in New South Wales on Friday night. This content is protected Fletcher registered the sixth KO of his six-bout professional career after hammering Indonesian-born southpaw Aswin Cabuy into submission at the Croatian Club in Sydney. Fletcher went on the attack from the opening bell and he didn't let up. By the end of the fourth round, Cabuy had taken enough punishment and failed to come out of his corner for the fifth. The 27-year-old Fletcher, the Pan Asian Boxing Association middleweight champion, said he was pleased with the win. “Cabuy was a very awkward opponent but I got the job done quite easily,” Fletcher, who turned joined the fight for pay ranks after representing Australia at the Beijing Olympic Games, said. “He likes to dominate from the start – I didn't let him. “I hit him with some really good head shots in the first round and that put him on the back foot. “After that, I moved downstairs and hit him with some big body blows. “I felt good and I was moving well, so it was another good result.” The bout was Fletcher's third since he had reconstructive surgery on his right shoulder after he pulled a piece of bone off it during a sparring session in Brisbane 12 months ago. It was the same shoulder the Melbourne Commonwealth Games champion had already undergone two lots of reconstructive surgery on. Fletcher said he had come through the fight well. “I pulled up sweet and I am ready to go again in two weeks,” Fletcher said. Fletcher will be in action next when he takes on Fiji's Tevita Vakalalabure live on ONE HD in Melbourne. Vakalalabure has won 14 of his 25 bouts, 11 by KO. It's a bout Fletcher said he was looking forward to. “He's a big, strong bloke and he can hit,” Fletcher said. “It will be tough, but my plan will be the same for him. “I'll be doing my best to knock him out – just like I've done to all the others before him.”
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