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.
By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated super middleweight Daniel Jacobs (11-0, 10 KOs) made short work of his opponent Tyrone Watson on Saturday night, stopping him in the 1st round of a scheduled six-round bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For Jacobs, it was his eighth first round knockout and 1th overall for the former 2004 and 2005 National Golden Gloves winner. Jacobs, 21, traded shots with Watson early in the first round, getting hit with a few right hands and jabs, but returning fire with blistering combinations to the head and body. 
By David Lar: Making his first defense of his WBC welterweight title, undefeated Andre Berto (23-0, 19 KOs) pounded out an impressive 12-round unanimous decision over Steve Forbes (33-7, 9 KOs) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Berto, 25, rose to the occasion against arguably his best opponent of his career in the 31 year-old Forbes, a former IBF super featherweight champion and a former contestant on the reality television series The Contender. Forbes looked good initially, matching Berto’s hand speed with blazing speed of his own, and landing well in the first two rounds. Indeed, Forbes appeared to win both the first and second rounds with his fast left hooks which he landed often against Berto during this time of the fight. 
By Chris Williams: Unbeaten light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (22-0-1, 17 KOs) looked good in defeating an over-matched Roberto David Arrieta (30-14-4, 13 KOs) in a 5th round stoppage to win the vacant WBO NABO light welterweight title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ortiz, 21, knocked Arrieta, an Argentinean, down three times in the fight – once in the 2nd, 4th and 5th – with the third knockdown resulting in referee Jay Nady stopping the fight at 2:25 of the 5th round. Ortiz, who looked positively in his last fight against power puncher Dairo Esalas in May, fought much better against the soft-punching Arrieta. Without having to worry about getting hit with any kind of power shots like the ones that Esalas was tagging Ortiz with in his last fight, Ortiz looked good and dominated Arrieta from start to finish. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Though his name is never brought up when the top super middleweight fighters are mentioned, young 21 year-old Daniel Jacobs (8-0, 8 KOs) may already be the best of the bunch, perhaps even better than Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler – the two fighters thought by many boxing fans to be the top two super middleweights in the division by far. However, neither Kessler or Calzaghe have the crushing power that Jacobs has, nor the smooth moves on the inside. Indeed, Jacobs, a former PAL national championship and a National Golden Gloves welterweight championship winner, looks to be the successor of those two fighters. 
By Chris Williams: Super middleweight prospect Daniel Jacobs (8-0, 7 KOs) once again scored a 1st round TKO, this being his 6th TKO in the first round out of seven total knockouts on his record. His latest victim, Sergio Rios (18-9, 16 KOs), was dropped to the canvas late in the round after taking a four punch combination to the head. Although the last punch that hit Rios, a powerful right hand, didn’t appear to connect cleanly, but it still had the effect of knocking Rios to the canvas as if he were ran over by a truck. Referee Raul Caiz moved in immediately and halted the fight at 2:46 of the 1st round. Whether the punch landed cleanly or not, Rios was taking severe punishment in the round from Jacobs, who was making every punch he threw count. 
By Eric Thomas: Forget all about Joe Calzaghe and Mikkel Kessler, unbeaten super middleweight Daniel Jacobs (7-0, 7 KOs) is going to be better than both of them ever hoped they could be. In fact, at 21, the former 2006 United States Amateur middleweight champion, may already be better than both of. With devastating power in either hand, Jacobs continued his forward progress on Friday evening, stopping Julio Perez (5-9-2, 4 KOs) in the 1st round of scheduled four-round bout at the Dodge Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas. Jacobs, using power punches and a steady downpour of combinations, staggered Perez several times in the first round, sending him reeling from one side of the ring to the other while taking unanswered shots to the head.