The 39-year-old from Stockholm took home the WBC super middleweight title in 2015 and two years later he won the WBA light heavyweight title.
Now he also struck with the WBC cruiserweight title in Riyadh.
— I stood there far too long. I want to go ahead and fight, but he’s a really good boxer. He is my African brother and we used to train together, says Badou Jack in the interview on Aftonbladet’s television broadcast.
Badou Jack was escorted into the ring by the legendary Mike Tyson and in front of soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo as one of the spectators.
Ilunga Makabu, Congo-Kinshasa, would try to defend his cruiserweight title for the third time. But the Swede effectively put an end to that.
He knocked Makabu to the floor twice, in the fourth and eleventh rounds.
When, after 54 seconds in the twelfth round, Badou Jack landed a powerful punch line, the referee stepped in and broke the match.