Biscayne Boxing instructor and University of Miami student and boxer CJ Jackson, gained fans nationwide as the winner of the National Collegiate Boxing Championship.
Boxer CJ Jackson (Courtney Jackson) had his number one Middleweight boxer advance to the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Championships hosted by The University of San Francisco this past weekend. Twenty schools were represented, including Westpoint, Michigan, UCLA, and FSU, in the first collegiate national championship held since 1960. This “club sport” tournament is designed as “the first major step” in the sports return to full varsity status (Boxing was a full NCAA sport until 1960).
University of Miami Head Coach, Mickey Demos, and Assistant Coach, Keith Jackson, reported that Cortney was the number one seed and earned a by on day one. In the semi finals courtney advanced to the Championship round with a unanimous decision against a tough boxer from USC. In the championshionship drew boxer Samuel Lazalde from CSUN who advanced to the finals with two KO victories.
“It was incredible”, Demos said. “The bout was close on the scoreboards going into the third round. I had to rely on Courtneys past military training. (Courtney is a premed student working off a Navy Scholarship).”. I told him, “Son you have to put this man down-do you understand me?” Courtney replied, “Yes Sir!”. He then went out and carried out the order with a vicious body attack. After Samuel went down the referee jumped in and stopped the contest earning UM its first national collegiate championship since UM’s win in 1955.
We hope this victory of boxer CJ Jackson will raise public awareness about boxing’s newest push to return the collegiate version of the sport to its glory days.
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