Comments Thread For: Badou Jack looks to make his case for the Hall of Fame

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Badou Jack has a point to prove in the final stretch of his career as he makes his case for the Hall of Fame.
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[Spray_resistant]

Been in some good fights has a few decent wins but no.

[famicommander]

Badou Jack vs world title winning opposition:
W vs Anthony Dirrell MD 12
W vs George Groves SD 12
W vs Lucian Bute DQ 12 (originally a robbery draw, then Bute was DQ'd for PEDs)
D vs James Degale MD 12 (robbery)
W vs Nathan Cleverly TKO 5
D vs Adonis Stevenson MD 12
L vs Jean Pascal SD 12 (robbery)
W vs Ilunga Makabu TKO 12
W vs Noel Mikaelian MD 12

Titles won:
WBC 168 (3 successful defenses, robbed in his unification attempt)
WBA 175* (no defenses, vacated to challenge for the WBC/lineal title against Adonis Stevenson instead)
WBC 200 twice (0 defenses 1st reign, stripped, reinstated, 1 defense and counting 2nd reign)

I don't think he's a Hall of Fame guy at this point. If he were to beat Mikaelian again and then successfully unify at cruiserweight, then yeah.

*Technically he won the WBA secondary belt while Andre Ward had the primary; Ward then retired which elevated Jack to primary champion. He was then ordered to defend against inteirm champion Bivol, but took the Stevenson fight instead. So in the span of two days Bivol was promoted from tertiary champion to secondary champion to primary champion while Jack when from secondary to primary to stripped.

[famicommander]

Been in some good fights has a few decent wins but no.

It's rather unlikely, but if he were to beat Mikaelian again and then somehow beat Opetaia he'd be worthy of enshrinement in my opinion. But not as his record stands today.

[drablj]

one more round against degale and one more against adonis (literally one punch away, 7th or 8th round to the belly) and he would be 2 division lineal champion with 3rd title at cruiserweight. he's 2 rounds from hof. so close yet so far.

[famicommander]

one more round against degale and one more against adonis (literally one punch away, 7th or 8th round to the belly) and he would be 2 division lineal champion with 3rd title at cruiserweight. he's 2 rounds from hof. so close yet so far.

The DeGale fight was a straight up robbery, nobody can convince me James won 6 rounds in that fight. The Stevenson draw was at least a fair result.

[moochi]

He fights like once every 2 years and against an unknown.

Zero chance for hall of fame

[SteveM]

Only hardcore fans will remember Jack in 30 years time. Unlike Eubank, Benn, Nunn, Norris, - thats a good starting point - would fans reminisce over his fights and career in 30 years time - for me at least the answer is a big fat "No" (apart from the slight inconvenience of my demise)

the fighters who i currently look forward to see fighting > Bam, Inoue, Foster, Tank, Nick Ball (I'm biased as British but nobody can deny he brings it), Matias, Teofimo (more so at 135), Ortiz, Ennis, Fundora, Mbilli, Benavidez, Beterbiev, Bivol, AJ (its the vulnerability), Fury (the slugger) Usyk, Itauma

Basically with all those fighters you know something is going to happen win or lose and I predict a good percentage of them will be in HOF. Badou Jack not so much.

[VislorTurlough]

Hall of very good. Iran Barkley isn’t in. He won titles in 3 weight classes in a less fake belts era.

[TyrantT316]

Everyone who finishes their career now feels they should be in the HOF....participation trophies