Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions. Known as "The Hawk", Jackson is considered to be one of the hardest pound-for-pound punchers in history, and is ranked #25 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 Greatest Punchers Of All-Time.
The Hall Of Famer Jackson now living in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. He continued his involvement in the local boxing field as a trainer and coach. He has two sons who are also boxers and have been doing well lately at the local level but on Friday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas the son John Jackson undefeated knockout artist (12-0, 11 KOs) scored a sixth round TKO over previously undefeated Keandre Leatherwood (9-1, 6 KOs) in a fight for the vacant WBC Youth light middleweight title. The bout was waved off by referee Robert Byrd with Leatherwood taking heavy fire time was 1:31 and Jackson also trained unbeaten jr middleweights, Samuel Rogers (11-0, 6 KOs) scored a tenth round TKO over Jamar Freeman (9-1-2, 5 KOs) to claim the vacant WBC FECARBOX belt. Time was 2:10.
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