Former EBU welter champ “Sugar” Jackson Osei Bonsu, 34-5, will continue his career despite the loss to Karlo Tabaghua last time out but will move up to jr middle.
The 30-year old Jackson, from Belgium by way of Ghana, feels that making welter have weakend him and was a key factor in the loss to Tabaghua, where he suffered three knockdowns en route to a points loss after eight rounds.
Bonsu was stopped by Randall Bailey in very first round of a IBF eliminator in March of 2010 and many observers feels it´s not the problem with making the weight that caused the setbacks but that Jackson, who never had the strongest of chins, simply don´t have punch resistance anymore.
That might be a good point: Jackson fought a tremendous war with WBC eternal mandatory challenger Selcuk Aydin in the summer of 2009 and was stopped in nine and it seems a fact that neither winner nor loser have looked the same since then.
Jackson´s debut at jr middle is scheduled for June 24 in Deurne, Belgium. “Sugar” is trained by Renald De Vulder and promoted by the Antwerp Boxing Academy.
06.05 Jackson moving up to jr middle
