I think we can not not like Rene Jacquot boxer, a "small" that was not afraid of the great.
Terry Norris came to confront France, and he knew that this boxer is ready to "die in the ring." Coming from such a champion, it is a tribute

NB: Hi Rene! You have just turned 50 on July 28, what do you do today?
RJ: It's going very well for me! I do a fascinating job, I care to give a taste of life to people who have not had much luck. Clearly, I am doing the work of fitness for the disabled or ill people to live. My work is always realized through the sport through workshops or work of physio. The goal is to improve their motor skills while exchanging words on the simple life. To give you a concrete example, I spent last week in "exchange" with a person who tried to commit suicide.

NB: So you're now a complete break with the Boxing ...
RJ: Yes (laughs Rene Jacquot). Indeed, it is journalists like you who I occasionally reminisce my past World Champion. To be honest, in my everyday work, this information is completely zapped ... Now I'm someone else, I am another professional.

NB: Even so, it still retains, 22 years later you won on points against Donald Curry for the belt World Champion WBC super-welterweight! And you, what is your view on this duel with hindsight?
RJ: I remember a wonderful career that was formed by the courage and selflessness. I started from nothing, I was shooting poorly, it had become necessary to make a challenge. And then people like Jacques Dufreney, Marc Gerard Teysseron Braillon or were able to give me my chance while offering me the means to achieve the title. In this I thank them! Thanks to the Echirolles, I became gradually another boxer. But for that, it took a lot of work. And then there was this fight against Curry I became World Champion! Then it was the culmination of a lot of work done by an individual who has a big support group.

NB: You must put this in context, this rather unexpected victory has promoted a new era of French champions after your title, 30 years after Alfonso Halimi. At the time, you were well received personally by François Mitterrand ...
RJ: Oh yes! At that time we were all televised. My title was a full-page newspaper, I was all over the media ... But I was not alone, Tafer, Boudouani or Benichou also took advantage of the media interest in boxing. I think at that time, boxing was still dreaming. Our stories aroused the dream. After my title, I was often made comparisons with "Rocky", I also called the "Rocky White." But now there is nothing! It is now the absolute nothingness!

NB: What explains this gap media in your opinion?
RJ: We have not taken advantage of this positive momentum for boxing. The Federation and the actors did not know boxing surfing exploits French in the World Championship. The problem is that our Federation does not know how to listen to his professional boxers. From there, the body can not understand boxing. The Federation does not interact with pro boxers, she is isolated in his convictions. I feel that it persists in thinking politics when the urgency is felt in sports. I said already 20 years ago, then today ... I have tried to talk, discuss creating a union of professional boxers, but we quickly understand that it was useless. It's still crazy that it has come here ...

NB: What are your proposals to improve the situation?
RJ: He already knows that the Federation should listen and interact with alumni and professional boxers. Other sports have very well understood even remember the old football from 98 to restart the machine. We in boxing, there is a sense that it is always the same people who talk to each other to better retain their positions for life. I believe that our discipline is essentially based on the values ​​of struggle and work, it is therefore necessary that the former can pass the baton to professional boxers to become aware of the values ​​to be respected in order to become better. And do not forget that boxing should give the dream! We in our time, it was Hagler, Hearms, Leonard, Norris ... In short, there were posters, entertainment and dreams. We got up late at night to watch Tyson! Today was what? The level became extremely low! Right now I know one name of world champion: Klitschko. It is too little! And if I have to get up early in the morning, it is not to watch boxing, but to watch a rugby match. Today, I consult the Boxing exclusively on the Internet. We are in a situation where we need to rethink professional boxing, you need a project! The difficulty is that this project must preserve the identity of our sport. The WSB is good, but honestly does it still exist in 3 or 4 years? Honestly? Is the window of our sport should look like the WSB? Does the WSB dream? We must restore the dream through stories and real exploits.






NB: you listen, you feel that you are ultimately still intellectually engaged in the noble art?
RJ: I think I'm mostly a nostalgic atmosphere unique to boxing, my boxing. Previously, there was an atmosphere at ringside, even in the amateur fights where premiums were shouted by the speaker in combat. Boxers gave themselves fully and without calculating the whole world ended around a good meal.

NB: You kept in touch with personalities like boxing or boxers Boudouani?
RJ: No, almost no (note: while I note the proximity of the dwelling place of Rene Jacquot in La Brasserie with Laurent Boudouani).
(One time)
You tell me that Laurent Boudouani Brewery is located in the center of Sallanches? I should perhaps make a small tour ...

NB: To return to yourself and your history of World Champion, you still regret your first title defense against John Mugabi who had cut short in less than a round, the fault of your ankle and rain who hounded Park Mirapol?
RJ: No, there is no frustration over what "combat". That's life for an athlete to meet a situation of injury.

NB: Rene, I have a favor to ask. It appears that you have met again Mugabi 10 years after the first battle for revenge "anonymous", away from the cameras?
RJ: (laughs, then a time)
How do you know this? I will not talk about it. It's fun! I prefer to keep secret the rumor (laughs).

NB: Thanks René for this interview. See you soon, perhaps over a drink in a brewery on Sallanches ... Who knows?
RJ: A final word to again thank everyone who took me under their cups Echirolles. Thanks to them I became World Champion. I remember that I build with them!
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le Lorrain René Jacquot, ex-champion frappe droit au cœur
Vingt ans plus tard, l’ex-champion du monde se consacre aux handicapés. Nostalgie : la photo du boxeur juste après sa victoire en février 1989, sur notre site !

René Jacquot vit désormais en Isère, à quelques kilomètres de Grenoble. Photo PQR/Le Dauphiné Libéré


Nancy. « Je suis comme ça, je n’ai pas envie de m’emmerder dans la vie ! Une fois que j’ai fait le tour de la question, je me barre. Et jamais en colère », résume en mode « direct » René Jacquot, quand on lui demande d’évoquer une trajectoire guidée par les coups de cœur, autant que par les coups de poings !
Patron de bar quelques années à Meylan puis à Voreppe (38), dans la région de Grenoble, avant de remettre les gants durant un an… dans le « bâtiment » (1), entre autre par goût pour le « grand air », le Toulois — aujourd’hui âgé de 50 ans — continue à vivre comme il a boxé. Sans calcul, avec une immense générosité. Et surtout sans aucun regret…
« Les regrets, c’est pour les cons. Ceux qui ne se sont pas donné les moyens d’y arriver », assure celui qui, il y aura 23 ans le 11 février prochain, s’est justement donné les moyens, avec son cœur immense, de décrocher la ceinture mondiale WBC des super-welters.
Cette soirée d’hiver 1989, 14.000 personnes s’étaient massées dans le Palais des Sports de Grenoble pour voir le moustachu lorrain déjouer tous les pronostics, et terrasser le « Cobra » Don Curry.
Le combat de toute une carrière (2) ! Mais pas celui d’une vie, dans laquelle René Jacquot, le ‘’tombeur’’ de Curry, s’attelle désormais à remettre debout les accidentés de la vie.
Aide médico-psychologique au sein de l’association Aappui, basée à Corenc, dans la banlieue nord de Grenoble, l’ex-champion du monde met ainsi à profit depuis un an et demi, son tempérament forgé dans un moule d’optimisme et d’abnégation, au service des autres…
« Des personnes pour la plupart handicapées à la suite d’un AVC, d’un accident de voiture ou de montagne. Il est surtout question d’exercices de motricité. Cette relation fait ressortir le côté fabuleux de l’être humain. c’est vraiment un métier fantastique ! », s’enthousiasme René Jacquot, éternellement rattrapé par sa soif irrépressible d’expériences nouvelles…
« Je fais parallèlement du coaching pour des chefs d’entreprises, tôt le matin. Et je travaille actuellement sur la création d’une ligne de vêtements. C’est bien parti », assure l’ancien champion qui, en revanche, a pris certaines distances avec le sport qui l’a révélé…
Encore capable de vibrer pour une Anne-Sophie Mathis qu’il aimerait voir « davantage mise en valeur par les médias nationaux ». Mais aussi amer, et sévère, lorsqu’il juge la politique fédérale actuelle.
« Pour que la boxe soit tombée si bas… »
« Vibrer ? Pour qui, pour quoi ? Il n’y a plus aujourd’hui de grands combats. Pour que la boxe soit tombée si bas, il y a des responsables. Et il faudra bien les mettre un jour au pilori ! Les promoteurs ont peut-être des torts. Mais il ne faut pas tout leur mettre sur le dos. La fédération n’a jamais écouté les anciens professionnels. Cherchez bien les anciens champions qui s’investissent aujourd’hui en son sein ! Prenez un garçon comme David Guérault. N’avait-il pas les qualités pour donner son petit avis de champion d’Europe sur la boxe Lorraine ! On aurait pu le consulter », lâche d’un air écœuré René le passionné, refermant une petite parenthèse pugilistique pour se replonger dans une de ses « journées de… 9 ou 10 heures ». Avant quelques congés.
« Je vais en profiter pour rentrer dans la région avec ma compagne. Nous allons visiter les cristalleries de Baccarat. Je suis resté un amoureux de la Lorraine », sourit l’Isérois d’adoption.
Car finalement tel est René Jacquot ! Capable de se démultiplier. Mais sûrement pas d’aimer à moitié !
François VADOT
(1) Il est plâtrier de formation.
(2) Il faut remonter 30 ans en arrière pour trouver trace d’un autre Français champion du monde : en l’occurrence Alphonse Halimi, en 1959.

Rene Jacquot was a very good boxer and often forgotten. He had a good win over a handy Don Curry-shame many remember him for the Mugabi and Rosi losses. The Mugabi loss was strange-the twisted ankle.

sprained knee ligament

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