French former boxing world title holder Thierry Jacob has died on the age of 59, the mayor of his dwelling metropolis Calais introduced on Friday.
Jacob took the WBC tremendous bantamweight title in 1992, defeating Mexico’s Daniel Zaragoza in entrance of his native followers in Calais.
“We start this present day with unhappy information. Thierry Jacob died in a single day, so younger,” Natacha Bouchart, mayor of the northern port metropolis, introduced on Fb.
Jacob turned skilled in 1984, retiring a decade later with a 39-6 report, dropping his WBC title at his first defence towards American Tracy Harris Patterson in New York.
One in every of his sons, Romain Jacob, adopted him into the ring, claiming the European tremendous featherweight belt in 2014.
