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John Jackson could have been the kid in school who told his classmates “my dad can beat up your dad,” and he would be right. But the son of former junior middleweight and middleweight world champion Julian “The Hawk” Jackson didn’t need to brag.
“Actually, people in school used to be like ‘John, you better not get in trouble because your dad’s gonna knock you out,’” laughed the 24-year-old, who nonetheless got a pretty intense introduction to the family business as a youngster.
“Growing up we used to watch our dad’s fights, and sometimes he would take us to the fights,” he recalled. “We lived in Vegas for five years and that was great. We went to some of the training camps and we met Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez. We had an amazing upbringing and childhood around boxing and we just fell in love with it. I guess it’s in the blood.”
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“Actually, people in school used to be like ‘John, you better not get in trouble because your dad’s gonna knock you out,’” laughed the 24-year-old, who nonetheless got a pretty intense introduction to the family business as a youngster.
“Growing up we used to watch our dad’s fights, and sometimes he would take us to the fights,” he recalled. “We lived in Vegas for five years and that was great. We went to some of the training camps and we met Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez. We had an amazing upbringing and childhood around boxing and we just fell in love with it. I guess it’s in the blood.”
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