Gary "The Kid" Jacobs (born 10 December 1965) is a former professional Scottish
boxer.
Jacobs at various points in his career held the British,
Commonwealth, and
European (EBU)
welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify th ...
titles, as well as unsuccessfully challenging
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker Sr. (January 2, 1964 – July 14, 2019) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2001, and subsequently worked as a boxing trainer. He was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, ligh ...
for his
WBC crown. Jacobs wore a
Star of David on his trunks. He was inducted into the Scottish Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011.
Jacobs is now a professional boxing coach at the MTK Scotland Gym and lives in the suburbs of Glasgow with his wife and three children
See also
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List of British welterweight boxing champions
List of British welterweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British welterweight title. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of ...
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List of select Jewish boxers
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Boxers from Glasgow
Scottish male boxers
Scottish Jews
Jewish boxers
Jewish British sportspeople
Welterweight boxers
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