Jermell DeAvante Charlo is an American professional boxer.
39 Facts About Jermell Charlo
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Jermell Charlo held the undisputed championship at light middleweight from 2022 to 2023 and The Ring light middleweight title from 2020 to 2024.
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Jermell Charlo's identical twin brother, Jermall Charlo, is a professional boxer and a world champion.
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Jermell Charlo graduated to the elite level on the amateur boxing scene after two years, winning a bronze medal at the 2005 Junior Olympics at age fifteen.
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Jermell Charlo ended his amateur career with a record of 56 wins and 8 losses.
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Jermell Charlo began his professional career at the age of 17 on December 8,2007, with a four-round decision win over Corey Sommerville.
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Jermell Charlo scored a sensational one-punch knockout of Chicago's Chris Chatman in the third round.
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Chatman's only previous loss was a six-round decision to 2008 US Olympian Demetrius Andrade in 2009, but he was no match for Jermell Charlo, who controlled his awkward opponent for most of the fight.
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On June 8,2013, Jermell Charlo fought former light welterweight contender Demetrius Hopkins.
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Jermell Charlo was moving back down to light middleweight after having little success at middleweight and claimed he would be Charlo's toughest fight.
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Jermell Charlo passed the biggest test of his career and looked good doing so as he easily out boxed Rosado to win a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision.
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On May 24,2014, Jermell Charlo defeated Charlie Ota at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec.
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On February 17,2015, Showtime announced that Jermell Charlo would appear on a doubleheader at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
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Martirosyan weighed 153 pounds, however Jermell Charlo stood on the scales at 154.75 pounds.
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Jermell Charlo landed the faster punches but they came with little damage, although they were point scoring shots.
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Jermell Charlo won the fight after knocking Alcine out in round 6 of their scheduled 12 round bout.
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Jermell Charlo outboxed Alcine for 5 rounds eventually dropping him in round 6 with a right hand to the head.
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Jermell Charlo followed on by landing a barrage of punches to which Alcine had no reply to causing referee Jon Schorle to stop the fight at 1 minute and 20 seconds.
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In round 8, Jermell Charlo hit Jackson with a right hand to the head followed by two lefts as Jackson turned away to adjust his mouthpiece and failed to keep his guard up.
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Jermell Charlo successfully defended his WBC title for the first time when he knocked Hatley out unconscious in round 6 after a right hook to the head.
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In front of 7,643, Jermell Charlo won the fight via first-round knockout to retain his WBC title.
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The end came in the closing stages of the round when Jermell Charlo landed a huge right hand, landing flush on Lubin, dropping him backwards onto the canvas.
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Jermell Charlo caught me with a blind shot that I didn't see.
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At a Showtime press conference on January 24,2018, it was announced that Jermell Charlo would make a third defence of his WBC title on June 9 on the undercard of Santa Cruz vs Mares II at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Jermell Charlo retained his title defeating Trout in a close bout.
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The card, which would be televised by FOX, would feature Jermell Charlo defending his WBC light middleweight title against Tony Harrison and Jermall Jermell Charlo defending his WBC interim middleweight title.
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Jermell Charlo stepped off a little in the championship rounds, which allowed Charlo to come back and take the last few rounds in his favour.
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Jermell Charlo had previously struggled with boxers who come forward with powering shots.
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Jermell Charlo pushed for it to happen, but didn't believe Charlo would have agreed to it.
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Jermell Charlo destroyed Cota with 20 seconds left in the third round with a big right to the chin.
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Jermell Charlo won via eleventh-round knockout and became a two-time world light middleweight champion.
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Jermell Charlo was aiming to finish the fight inside the distance and not wanting the judges to decide the outcome.
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Jermell Charlo would start quickly, dropping Rosario with a left hook to the top of the head in the first round.
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Jermell Charlo was then taken to hospital after feeling dizzy and nauseous.
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Jermell Charlo underwent tests including MRI and EKG and was released on Sunday morning.
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Jermell Charlo faced undefeated WBO light middleweight champion Brian Castano on July 17,2021, in San Antonio, Texas in a showdown for the undisputed light middleweight championship.
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Jermell Charlo unified the WBO belt with his WBA, WBC and IBF light middleweight belts, becoming the 7th male 4 belt undisputed champion in history.
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Jermell Charlo was scheduled to make the first defense of his undisputed WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and the Ring light middleweight titles against WBO No 1 contender Tim Tszyu on January 28,2023, but the bout was postponed twice after Jermell Charlo injured his hand while sparring.
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Jermell Charlo was ordered to defend his WBO championship against Tszyu before September 30,2023, however he instead decided to face Canelo Alvarez.