By Jim Dower: The best super middleweight on the Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr. card on Saturday night may have not been Joe Calzaghe, but rather the young, 21 year-old unbeaten Daniel Jacobs (12-0, 11 KOs) who destroyed Jimmy Campbell (11-3, 8 KOs) in the 3rd round of a scheduled six-round bout at the Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York. Jacobs, a former U.S amateur star, dropped Campbell with a hard right hand in the 3rd round.
He made it up badly hurt, and was met with a blistering flurry of shots from Jacobs, ending with the referee stepping in and halting the bout at 2:59 of the 3rd round. For Jacobs, it was his 11th knockout in 12 fights, with 10 of them coming in three rounds or less. Jacobs, a United States Amateur middleweight champion, is the real deal, with explosive power in either hand and who punches with as much power to the body as he does to the head.
At this point, he’s still working his way up against relatively soft opposition but his power is very real, and will make him an immediate threat to all of the top super middleweights once his management team is ready to put him in with better fighters.