Dirrell vs Jack full fight: April 24, 2015
| Fighter Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirrell | No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available | ||||||||
| Jack | No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available |
- After a tense weigh-in, the bad blood looked like it carried over into the early going of the fight as Badou Jack wrestled Anthony Dirrell into the ropes in the second round.
- Dirrell switched southpaw in the fourth round and started to fight more aggressively, but couldn’t sustain the pace.
- Jack dictated the pace of the fight through the middle rounds to pick up the majority decision and hand Dirrell his first loss.
Coming into April 24’s fight at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, the lone blemish on Anthony Dirrell’s record was a split draw with Sakio Bika in their first meeting.
Challenger Badou Jack handed Dirrell his first full-fledged loss with a majority decision that saw the 31-year-old Swede control the fight through the middle rounds, relying on a strong jab and a confident aggression to outpoint Dirrell.
Badou Jack handed Dirrell his first full-fledged loss with a majority decision.
The bigger puncher, Dirrell couldn’t get off that one big shot to stagger Jack, instead spending the night throwing counters that, in the end, narrowly came up short.
With 22 knockouts in 28 fights, Anthony Dirrell came into Friday night’s fight with Badou Jack at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago with a well-deserved reputation for put-'em-to-sleep power. But for 12 rounds, the Sweden-born Jack was able to stymie Dirrell’s biggest asset and get out with a narrow majority decision to hand Dirrell the upset, and his first career loss.
Anthony Dirrell and Danny Jacobs aren’t bonded by blood, but they call themselves brothers just the same. They were brought together by something that threatened to tear each of them apart.
World champions Anthony Dirrell and Daniel Jacobs made weight in advance of their Friday night title defenses, as did their opponents, but not without incident.
