Worst Fight Of The Year: Jacobs-Rosado
Daniel Jacobs and Gabe Rosado leading into their fight last November had the makings of long stemming rivalry. Two fighters who didn’t like each other, the classic Philadephia versus New York stuff, and one guy thinking he was better than the other.
However, what played out in the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino ring in Hollywood, Florida, was an organic remedy to cure insomnia at any level.
We’ve written on here about the best fight of the year, which was a crazy slugfest between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk. Well, this contest is the complete opposite of that.
How bad was this fight, and what gives it this distinction? It was so bad that Jacobs apologized for the fight’s performance, and he won the fight.
“I didn’t think I did the best performance. I could’ve did a little bit better,” Jacobs said in the ring post-fight. “It’s my fault. We had a great camp, and I obviously didn’t do everything I should have. I was looking for the right hand, but I guess I got right hand happy. I should’ve stuck to the game plan.
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn tweeted that the only highlight of this fight was that the ring announcer Jeremiah Gallegos was about to announce the fight’s wrong winner.
The MC mistake was the highlight of that fight..I felt neither deserved to win! #Jacobsrosado
— Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) November 28, 2020
Hearn isn’t worn about that. The reason this was a split decision and so close was because both weren’t doing anything in the ring. So much so, anyone who watched this live was getting 2019 flashbacks between Robert Easter and Rances Barthelemy. CompuBox saw Jacobs landing 78 of 339 (23%) total punches, while Rosado had just 78 of 549 (14%), Easter and Barthelemy landed 106 total in their uneventful draw.
The card as a whole was a bad one. This main event cemented it as the Worst FIght of The Year.
Honorable mention and runner up belongs to Efe Ajagba against Johnathan Rice.
The icing on the cake for #JacobsRosado ? pic.twitter.com/B4RVWi6mL9
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) November 28, 2020
Marquis Johns is a unknown humorist and avid boxing fan. His love for the sweet science goes back to when matches were 15 rounds and has been covering fights since closed-circuit pay-per-views. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth is not only a quote by Mike Tyson, it's also a pretty good reminder to keep your guard up.
