Mike Jacobs (boxing)

This article is about the boxing promoter. For other people with this name, see Mike Jacobs.
Jacobs, circa 1942 ringside at the Henry Armstrong/Barney Ross bout at the Madison Square Garden Bowl, Long Island City, Queens, New York on May 31, 1938

Michael Strauss Jacobs (March 17, 1880 – January 1953) was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930s until his effective retirement in 1946.[1] He was posthumously elected to the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1982,[2] and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.[3]

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