Comments Thread For: Former super-featherweight champion Thierry Jacob dies at 59

[BoxingUpdates]

The former?WBC super-featherweight champ Thierry Jacob has died at the age of 59 after losing his battle with lung cancer
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[Tatabanya]

RIP Thierry. Just 59, one year younger than myself. It's bad.

[crisantonio917]

RIP CHAMPION, you're in the record books forever.

[1Eriugenus]

'On his fourth attempt, Thierry won the European bantamweight title by beating Duke McKenzie in 1990. He retained that title against Vincenzo Picardo and then beat Mexico's great Daniel Zaragoza to win the WBC junior featherweight title in March 1993. Just three months later, Jacob was back in the ring again, when he lost the title to Tracy Harris Patterson. Two tough losses to Wilfredo Vazquez followed; he closed out his career in 1994 with a win against Edgar Ballen. His record read 39-6'.

IDK who is reading this but there is a lot to be proud about. Beating McKenzie & Zaragoza & then narrowly losing to Patterson & Vazquez. Was he France's greatest ever at 118 or 122?

[PunchyPotorff]

Rest in peace, Champ.