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Local boxer Jake Daoust drops opponent in second-round for third pro win

March 24, 2022   ·   0 Comments

By Brian Lockhart

Orangeville boxer, Jake Daoust, won his third professional bout after dropping his opponent with a second-round knock-out at the Hamilton Convention Centre on Saturday (Mar. 19) night.

Doust had a lot of time to prepare for his pro career. As an amateur he had 90 fights, taking him all around the world.

“I planned on having 100 fights, but when the time comes, you just know,” Daoust said of his amateur career. “I had enough experience and I thought I’d just go for it. I had 90 amateur fights, four Canadian titles, fought around the world representing Team Canada, and I was ready to go.”

He debuted as a pro in February of 2020 and won that fight with a unanimous decision.

His second pro fight in April 2021, resulted in a TKO in the first round.

The boxing world stalled during the pandemic and a couple of Daoust’s scheduled fights were cancelled, but Daoust continued to train and keep active.

“I’ve had my heart broken a couple of times where we had a fight date line up and we went through a whole training camp, and ten days before the fight the pandemic shut us down,” Daoust said. “But I just kept going. I’m with a new trainer now – I train out of TNT in Guelph, me and my new coach Steven Bailey are planning on going far together – my confidence is up.”

His middleweight bout on Saturday had him up against Mikhail Miller out of Toronto. Miller is an experienced fighter who came to the ring with a 3-5-1 record.

The bout was scheduled for six rounds.

After feeling each other out in the first round, Daoust ended the fight late in the second round with a devastating overhand right that dropped Miller for the count.

“I knew he was tough, I knew he had never been stopped before, so it was my goal to do that – stop him,” Daoust said. “The first round went as planned, I went in there calm and started slow. I tried to get a feel for him in the first round and was really trying to find my distance and range and my timing. I started to pick things up in the second round. I was landing the right hand to the body, then started upstairs and knocked him out.”

The win brings his pro career to 3-0.

Daoust’s camp is already planning for the next match-up, although details of the next fight have not yet been officially announced.

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