The career of Brock Jarvis has been unique, to say the least. This past Wednesday Jarvis won his 21st professional fight knocking out Marlon Paniamogan in four rounds, in Carriageworks, Eveleigh, Australia. For Jarvis, a native of Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, the win was needed as he suffered a humiliating first-round knockout at the hands of Liam Paro last October, for the first loss of his career.
What makes Jarvis interesting besides being a hall-of-fame step-on-the-scale guy at the weigh-in, as he has a model-like figure, and is sort of ‘just figuring it out’ as for right now inside the ropes, is liberal denotation to a single weight class in the sport of boxing. In his eight years as a professional boxer, Jarvis has fought at super flyweight, bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight, super lightweight, and for this bout against Panimogan Jarvis fought at a catchweight of 144 lbs, it appears given the weights. If you can’t the catchweight as a new weight class and my math is correct that is eight weight classes is roughly, eight years, and even more so, it is his sixth fight in a row in a new weight class.
Jarvis apparently per reports from FoxSports.com.au's Nick Walshaw, appeared to break his jaw in Wednesday night’s contest, as it appeared in the second round Jarvis was caught with a damaging blow he had to fight through until getting the knockout. The Jeff Fenech prodigy still is showing the grit of a prizefighter but is leaving a lot of open-ended questions about his future.
“He caught me with a good shot and went for it,” said Jarvis about the punch that landed in the second round. “I knew he had power and that I had to be careful.”
We know that Jarvis looks the part, has a famous as well as notable team, now he has to prove that he exists at the world level of the sport, or deal with the fact he might be a local market attraction in Australia. Though Jarvis is saying all the things you want to hear from a fighter, which aims to go to the next level. Though Jarvis is a young fighter, his career is at a crossroads as he needs to pick a weight class in the near future, which is the first issue burdening him.
“Still, it’s just great to be back in the ring,” said Jarvis about his performance.“We worked on a few changes and I just want to go again as soon as I can”.
