Jacobin Yoma boxer

Jacobin Yoma boxer
bouts
54
won
40
lost
11
draw
3
Status
inactive
Division
super featherweight
Debut
1989-10-10
Height
5′ 5½″/166cm
Reach
-
Age
-
Born
1966-09-17
Death
-
Nationality
France

Jacobin Yoma (born 6 October 1966) is a French Guianan former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1999, and held the European super-featherweight title from 1993 to 1995.He was nicknamed l'Ouragan de Cayenne (The Cayenne Hurricane) for the impressive speed of his hands.Yoma was born on 6 October 1966 in Maripasoula, French Guiana, as a member of the Aluku tribe, but settled in the capital city of Cayenne at a young age. At the age of 13 he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and began boxing when he was advised to pick up a sport. He became French amateur champion in 1989 under coach Jacques Chinon and decided to go pro later that year.Yoma made his professional debut on 6 October 1989, defeating Brazilian opponent Geraldo Leite by points in Cayenne. In his fifth bout, he traveled to the United States and fought Regilio Tuur to a majority draw – the first blemish on his record and the first matchup in their trilogy. In the next year, he picked up both the French and WBC FECARBOX super-featherweight titles as he continued to rack up wins. On 14 June 1991 he faced a 37-year-old Daniel Londas for his European super-featherweight title in Reims, and suffered his first career defeat by decisive unanimous decision (UD). Yoma again captured the French and FECARBOX titles before he received another shot at the European crown in Rotterdam on 3 December 1992, falling to Regilio Tuur by way of points in front of a crowd of 7,000 that included John de Wolf and Jules Deelder. Four months later he lost a decision to Guyanese prospect Joseph Murray in Georgetown for the vacant FECARBOX title – his third defeat.He finally defeated Tuur on 11 June 1993 by split decision in his hometown of Cayenne to become European super-featherweight champion. Over the next two years he successfully defended the European belt on four occasions, with the first three taking place in the hot humidity of Cayenne. His last successful defense was a UD victory over former world champion Jimmi Bredahl in Copenhagen on 7 October 1994. He lost the title on 4 July 1995, suffering a UD defeat in the Paris suburb of Thiais to Russian future world champion Anatoly Alexandrov. Yoma captured the French title once more the following year before retiring in 1999 with a record of 40–11–3.Yoma is a member of the Aluku tribe, descendants of the Maroon slaves who fled from the plantations of Dutch Guiana in the eighteenth century.

Date Opponent Last Opponents' Results Place Result
1999-06-26 Didier Tual DLLDLL Reims LOST
Points
1999-05-28 Franck Requier WWLLDL Saint-Lô WIN
Points
1999-03-06 Adrian Parlogea WLLLLL Saint-Quentin LOST
Points
1999-01-09 Lennox Jones L Ducos WIN
Points
1998-03-28 Affif Djelti LWWWLW Cayenne LOST
Points
1997-06-07 Affif Djelti WWWLWW Le Havre LOST
Points
1997-03-01 Hocine Hassani LWLDDL Cayenne WIN
Points
1996-12-10 Dramane Nabaloum WWWWWW Ouagadougou LOST
Points
1996-11-09 Victor Torres WLLDWL Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1996-06-29 Affif Djelti WLWWWW Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni WIN
Technical knockout
1996-04-12 Radames Bido LLLLLL Cayenne WIN
Technical knockout
1995-12-15 Affif Djelti WWLWLW Rouen LOST
Technical knockout
1995-11-10 Luiz Antonio Da Silva Ferreira WWLLWW Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1995-07-04 Anatoly Alexandrov WWWWWW Thiais LOST
Unanimous decision
1995-02-14 Joey Negron WWLWLW Thiais WIN
Points
1994-12-04 Hocine Hassani LLLLWL Palais Omnisports de Thiais, Thiais WIN
Points
1994-10-07 Jimmi Bredahl WWWWWL K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen WIN
Points
1994-06-11 Alric Johnson WLLWWW Pointe-à-Pitre LOST
Points
1994-06-03 Dramane Nabaloum WWWWWW Abidjan DRAW
Points
1994-05-14 Neil Haddock WWWWWL Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1994-04-08 Victor Laureano WDLLLL Cayenne WIN
Points
1994-01-28 Rimvydas Bilius WLWWWW Cayenne WIN
Technical knockout
1993-11-05 Arao Macedo WWWWLW Cayenne WIN
Points
1993-10-02 Areski Bakir LWLWWW Cayenne WIN
Technical knockout
1993-06-11 Regilio Tuur WLWWWW Cayenne WIN
Points
1993-04-18 Joseph Murray WWWWWW Georgetown LOST
Points
1993-02-06 Kamel Bou-Ali WWWLWW Cirque d'Hiver, Paris DRAW
Points
1992-12-03 Regilio Tuur WWWLWW Sportpaleis Ahoy', Rotterdam LOST
Points
1992-10-30 Danilo Cabrera LLLLLL Cayenne WIN
KO
1992-07-04 Hector Padilla LL Lamentin WIN
Technical knockout
1992-06-12 Hocine Hassani WLLWLW Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1992-05-15 Jean Pierre Dibateza WLLWWW Cayenne WIN
Points
1992-04-03 Alain Pernice WWWLLW Clermont-Ferrand WIN
Points
1992-02-27 Bobby Brewer LLWLLW Paris WIN
Points
1992-01-30 Moussa Sangare WDLWWW Paris WIN
Majority decision
1992-01-17 Wilson Fontalvo LLLWLL Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1991-11-30 Ed Pollard LLWLWL Pointe-à-Pitre WIN
Technical knockout
1991-10-25 Alain Simoes WWWLLL Cayenne WIN
Points
1991-06-14 Daniel Londas WWWWWW Reims LOST
Unanimous decision
1991-05-04 Rodolfo Chirino LLLL Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1991-03-27 Junior Drakes WL Cayenne WIN
Technical knockout
1991-02-23 Luis Rodriguez LLLLL Stade du Futbol, Pointe-à-Pitre WIN
KO
1991-01-18 Christino Suero LLL National Hall of Sports, Cayenne WIN
KO
1990-12-07 Jesse Torres WWWWWD Sports Hall, Cayenne WIN
Points
1990-11-03 Curtis Strong WLWWDW Deauville WIN
Points
1990-10-12 Richie Foster WWWWLW Cayenne WIN
KO
1990-05-18 Mohammed Bennama WWWWWW Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1990-04-06 Pierre Lorcy WWWWWW Cayenne WIN
Points
1990-03-16 Lloyd Ratalsky WWLL Sports Hall, Cayenne WIN
KO
1990-02-12 Regilio Tuur WWWWWL Westchester County Center, White Plains DRAW
Points
1990-01-19 Belaid Khaldi WWLLWW Cayenne WIN
Technical knockout
1989-12-08 Jose Gonzales LLLLLL Sports Hall, Cayenne WIN
Corner retirement
1989-11-10 Silverio Flores WWW Cayenne WIN
Points
1989-10-10 Geraldo Leite debut Cayenne WIN
Points