Jermell Charlo

On June 8, 2013, Charlo fought former light welterweight contender Demetrius Hopkins (33-2-1, 13 KOs).

In a close back and forth affair were Charlo controlled the action in the early rounds with his aggression and power shots, he defeated Hopkins by unanimous decision.

All three judges scored it 115-113.

The crowd seemed to be displeased with the performances.

on March 28 against former world title challenger Vanes Martirosyan (35-1-1, 25 KOs).

Jermell DeAvante Charlo (born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer.

Jermell graduated to the elite level on the amateur boxing scene after two years, winning a bronze medal at the 2005 Junior Olympics at age fifteen.

He ended his amateur career with a record of 56 wins and 8 losses.

He began his professional career at the age of 17 on December 8, 2007, with a four-round decision win over Corey Sommerville.

On April 19, 2008, he stopped Jesus Villareal in three rounds and after scoring an impressive first-round TKO over Dwayne Jones in June, Charlo added the names Rodrigo Villareal (TKO4) and Deon Nash (W6) to his victims list before the year was out.

Chatman's only previous loss was a six-round decision to 2008 U.S. Olympian Demetrius Andrade in 2009, but he was no match for Charlo, who controlled his awkward opponent for most of the fight.

In the third round, he landed a flush straight right hand to Chatman's chin and knocked him out at 1 minute, 22 seconds.

With this win, at the age of 22, Charlo had a record of 17 wins, with no losses with 8 wins inside the distance.

In 2009, he scored a shutout four-round decision over Juan Serrano on February 28, got a decision win over Carlos Garcia over six rounds on April 4, TKO'd Federico Flores Jr. in the eighth round on June 26, defeated Vardan Gasparyan in six, and then finished up the year with a second-round knockout of unbeaten prospect Abdon Lozano.

Charlo scored a sensational one-punch knockout of Chicago's Chris Chatman in the third round.

In November 2013, it was reported that Charlo would step up and fight Philadelphia veteran boxer and former world title challenger Gabriel Rosado (21-7, 13 KOs) on January 25, 2014, at D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C., on Showtime.

Prior to the fight, Rosado was 0-2-1 in his last three fights.

He was also moving back down to light middleweight after having little success at middleweight and claimed he would be Charlo's toughest fight.

Charlo passed the biggest test of his career and looked good doing so as he easily out boxed Rosado to win a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision.

The judges scored the fight 100-90, 99-91 and 97-93 all in Charlo's favor.

Charlo landed 50% of his punches thrown compared to Rosado's 18%.

The fight averaged 472,000 viewers on Showtime.

On May 24, 2014, Charlo defeated Charlie Ota at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec.

Charlo was dropped in round 3 but he still won a unanimous decision after twelve rounds, with the scorecards reading 118-109 twice and 115-111.

Charlo was scheduled to fight Demetrius Andrade (21-0, 14 KOs) at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino on December 13, 2014, for WBO light middleweight title but on November 16 was cancelled due to purse issues.

Andrade was reportedly offered $250,000, but later increased to what would be a career high $300,000 purse.

Following the cancellation of the Andrade fight, Charlo fought in December 2014 against Mario Alberto Lozano on the undercard of Amir Khan vs. Devon Alexander at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

Charlo won a clear 100-90 on all three scorecards of the 10 round fight.

In January 2015, Banner Promotions who promote Andrade stated the fight was back on and likely to take place in the Spring of 2015.

The following month, Star Boxing and Banner Promotions announced a deal was being worked out, however a fight did not materialise.

On February 17, 2015, Showtime announced that Charlo would appear on a doubleheader at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

Charlo next fought in October against 34 year old Jose Angel Rodriguez (17-2-1, 2 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight at the BB&t Center in Sunrise, Florida.

Charlo won the fight in the last round via TKO.

He has held the Ring magazine junior middleweight title since 2020, and previously the undisputed championship in that weight class from 2022 to 2023.

His identical twin brother, Jermall Charlo, is also a professional boxer and a world champion.

As of May 2022, Jermell is ranked as the world's tenth best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring and the TBRB.

He is also ranked as the world's best active junior middleweight by the TBRB, BoxRec, The Ring and ESPN.

Jermell is younger than his identical twin Jermall by one minute.

Both brothers are graduates of Alief Hastings High School in Houston, Texas.

They began boxing when they started following their father, a former boxer, into the gym.