Who won Jack vs Escalera?

Badou Jack beat Jason Escalera by unanimous decision in their 10 round contest on Saturday 30th August 2014 at Palms Casino and Resort, Pearl Theater in Las Vegas.

The scorecards were announced as 100-90, 100-90, 99-91 in favor of winner Badou Jack.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 10 rounds in the Super Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 168 pounds (12 stone or 76.2 KG).

Jack vs Escalera stats

Badou Jack stepped into the ring with a record of 16 wins, 1 loss and 1  draw, 11 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Jason Escalera made his way to the ring with a record of 15 wins, 2 loses and 1 draw, with 12 of those wins by knock out.

The stats suggested Escalera had advantage in power over Jack, with a 80% knock out percentage over Jack's 69%.

Badou Jack was the older man by 1 year, at 39 years old.

Jack had a height advantage of 2 inches over Escalera. Despite this, both fighters had equal reach.

Both Badou Jack & Jason Escalera fought out of an orthodox stance.

Jack's experience as a professional fighter was relatively equal to Escalera's, having had the same amount of fights, and made his debut in 2009, 1 year and 3 months later than Escalera, whose first professional fight was in 2008. He had fought 136 more professional rounds, 220 to Escalera's 84.

Jack vs Escalera form

Jack had beaten 2 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going the distance once.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had defeated Blake McKernan on 28th November 2020 by unanimous decision in their 8 round contest at Dignity Health Sports Park, California, United States.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Jean Pascal on 28th December 2019 by split decision in their WBA World Light Heavyweight championship fight at State Farm Arena, Georgia.

Going into that contest, he had lost to Marcus Browne on 19th January 2019 by unanimous decision in their WBA Interim World Light heavyweight championship fight at MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

Before that, he had drawn with Adonis Stevenson on 19th May 2018 by majority draw in their WBC World Light heavyweight championship fight at Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada.

He had defeated Nathan Cleverly on 26th August 2017 by technical knockout in the 5th round in their WBA World Light Heavyweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, United States.

Activity check

Jack's last 5 fights had come over a period of 5 years, 7 months and 4 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 1 month and 12 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 49 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 9.8 rounds on average.

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