Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Friday December 20, 2024 at 8:49 p.m.
Thierry Jacob died during the night from Thursday to Friday following a long illness. The northern boxer, WBC super bantamweight world champion in 1992, was 59 years old.
French boxing mourns Thierry Jacob this Friday. The Northerner died on the night of Thursday to Friday at the age of 59 following a long illness. Son of Jacques, former professional turned trainer, and brothers of Jacky, Bruno and Hervé, respectively European lightweight champion and French super-welterweight champion, the Calaisian, also launched into boxing by his father, had known his hour of glory in March 1992 by seizing the WBC world super bantamweight belt on home soil (in Calais) by winning on points against the Mexican Daniel Zaragoza. The adventure unfortunately did not last very long, since Jacob, also EBU European champion twice during his career (in 1990 and 1991), lost in his first defense. Opposed the following June in the State of New York to the American Tracy Harris Patterson, the Northerner had abandoned his world title by a referee's stoppage in the second round, just three months after this victory against Zaragoza which had given him allowed Jacob to temporarily be number 1 in the category.
A tribute will be paid to him at the start of the year
Jacob, a personality much appreciated by all Calais residents, had boxed professionally for ten years, with an impressive record of 39 victories and only six defeats. Tributes quickly poured in after the death of the former world champion. The mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart, deploring the departure of this “so young” man, notably announced that a tribute would be paid at the start of the year to Thierry Jacob in her city. “He was an immense champion. He was in fusion with a city, a region. He marked the magnificent hours of boxing in France. He was world champion in super bantamweight, European champion… He was super talented at the end of the 80s and in the 90s”, recalled Jean-Philippe Lustyk on Friday during the Super Moscato Show on RMC.
