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By Mitch Abramson - Danny Jacobs knew he wasn’t right in the head.
He could tell he was in emotional disarray when he fought for a world title in 2010.
His grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, who helped raise him, died a week before the bout, leaving Jacobs brokenhearted, unable to concentrate on the task at hand.
The result wasn’t all that unexpected given his emotional frame of mind.
Jacobs was decked by a right hand by little known Dmitry Pirog and stopped in the fifth round, keeping the Brownsville native from picking up the vacant WBO middleweight title.
Now, Jacobs has a second chance to win a world championship, and again he finds himself coming to terms with the emotional tug of losing someone close to his heart.
When Jacobs (27-1, 24 knockouts) challenges Jarrod Fletcher (18-1, 10 knockouts) for the vacant WBA middleweight title Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Showtime as part of a triple-header, it will come less than a year since his first trainer and close friend, Victor Roundtree died from complications related to diabetes on Oct. 3. Roundtree was just 52. [Click Here To Read More]
He could tell he was in emotional disarray when he fought for a world title in 2010.
His grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, who helped raise him, died a week before the bout, leaving Jacobs brokenhearted, unable to concentrate on the task at hand.
The result wasn’t all that unexpected given his emotional frame of mind.
Jacobs was decked by a right hand by little known Dmitry Pirog and stopped in the fifth round, keeping the Brownsville native from picking up the vacant WBO middleweight title.
Now, Jacobs has a second chance to win a world championship, and again he finds himself coming to terms with the emotional tug of losing someone close to his heart.
When Jacobs (27-1, 24 knockouts) challenges Jarrod Fletcher (18-1, 10 knockouts) for the vacant WBA middleweight title Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Showtime as part of a triple-header, it will come less than a year since his first trainer and close friend, Victor Roundtree died from complications related to diabetes on Oct. 3. Roundtree was just 52. [Click Here To Read More]
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