Season 5: #44 Julian Jackson

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The Hall of Famer from the Virgin Islands, Julian Jackson is undoubtedly one of the biggest punchers the sport has seen.

Jackson knocked out 49 of 55 opponents, creating one of the sport's great highlight reels along the way.

He was a Don King stalwart, but some of the big fights Jackson wanted, against the likes of Roy Jones and James Toney, failed to materialise, but Jackson had two violent battles with Gerald McClellan, a shootout with Mike McCallum, annihilated Buster Drayton, Dennis Milton, Terry Norris and infamously blew Herol Graham away with a shocking knockout when behind on the cards and blinded in one eye.

Jackson talks about his journey, which was shaped by an alcoholic mother, to being a father, growing up rough, missing out on the boycotted Olympics of 1980 and his sensational ride through the sport and into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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0:29.9	I had a very low self-esteem about myself as a young man growing up here in the Virgin Islands,
0:36.1	coming from a broken home, you know, but somehow my trainer was able to instill in me a desire to do my best in boxing.
0:51.8	Who is the opponent?
0:53.0	And Dan King said, Julian Jackson.
0:56.0	And there was a pause on the phone.
1:01.0	And next thing he says, you know Dan,
1:05.0	right now I don't think we can take that fight.
1:11.0	If you meet me, you know, you would say, man, this guy is the most
1:18.8	pleasant guy that I've ever met. But yet I'm in a sport that is a contact sport, okay?
1:25.0	And I box and I punch and I hit, you know what I'm saying?
1:29.0	And, but yet it's about my heart, you know, it's about your heart.
1:36.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:39.4	What happened in the ring after
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