By Jim Dower: Last Saturday’s middleweight fight between Daniel Jacobs and Maciej Sulecki brought in good ratings on HBO from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Jacobs-Sulecki averaged 811,000 viewers with a peak of 874,000 viewers on HBO, according to Dan Rafael.
By Jeff Aranow: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (21-0-1, 18 KOs) outworked former heavyweight world title challenger Johann ‘Reptile’ Duhaupas (37-5, 24 KOs) in winning a fairly one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night on HBO Boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Jeff Aranow: Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (20-0-1, 18 KOs) weighed in at the heaviest of his career at 304 ¼ pounds at Friday’s weigh-in for tonight’s 12 round match-up against France’s Johann Duhaupas (37-4, 24 KOs) for their heavyweight fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Dan Ambrose: Daniel Jacobs, Maciek Sulecki, Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller and Johann Duhuapas all weighed in on Friday for their fights this Saturday night on HBO World Championship Boxing from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has a fight with WBO champion Joseph Parker on March 31, but if he wins that fight he could be meeting Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (20-0-1, 18 KOs) in August or September in New York, says Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn. Miller has to win his next fight against Johann Duhaupas (37-4, 24 KOs) on April 28th for the Joshua-Miller contest to be a realty.
By Tim Royner: Anthony Joshua could be facing American heavyweight Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller this summer if Jarrell wins impressively in his April 28th fight against former title challenger Johann Duhaupas (37-4, 24 KOs) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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By Jim Dower: #1 WBC heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin (31-1, 23 KOs) dominated and knocked out an out of shape replacement opponent Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (34-4, 21 KOs) in stopping him in the 6th round on Saturday night at the Ekaterinburg Expo Center in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The 35-year-old Duhaupas was brought in to replace former WBC heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne, who chose not to fight tonight after learning that the World Boxing Council wouldn’t sanction the fight after Povetkin tested positive for a banned substance. The official time of the stoppage was at 2:59 of the 6th round.
Jeff Aranow: #13 WBC former world title challenger Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (34-3, 21 KOs) used a fast pace to give #12 IBF Robert Helenius (22-1, 13 KOs) his first career defeat on Saturday night in stopping him in the 6th round to capture the vacant WBC Silver heavyweight title at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland.
By Jim Dower: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) enjoyed a huge advantage in punches landed over his opponent Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) last Saturday night in their fight at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
Showing off his ability to throw a lot of punches when needed, the 6’7” Wilder connected on 326 of 587 punches for a connect percentage of 56 percent, according to CompuBox stats. That’s a very high connect percentage for a heavyweight.
By Tim Fletcher: #11 WBC Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) is unhappy that the referee Jack Reiss stopped the fight in the 11th round last night in Duhaupas’ fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
Duhaupas, 34, had taken too much punishment in the 11th round from Wilder for Reiss to let the fight continue, so he stopped the fight at 0:55 of the round rather than letting Duhaupas take further shots. Duhaupas wanted to finish the fight on his feet by going the full 12 rounds instead of being on the receiving end of a TKO defeat.