By Jeff Aranow: WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack says he’s going to break IBF champion James DeGale down with pressure on Saturday night to take his title on January 14 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight is on Showtime.
This is a match that has slowly been build up over a year now, and it’s finally about to take place. Jack (20-1-2, 12 KOs) has studied DeGale’s fighting style, and he believes he can defeat him by walking him down and hitting him hard to the head and body. Badou’s pressure style of fighting has worked for him in two out of his last three fights in wins over Anthony Dirrell and George Groves. Where it failed Jack was in his last fight against Lucian Bute last April.