Daniel Jacobs: record, next fight and profile →
Former world champion Julio César Chávez Jr. is mulling a proposal to face another former middleweight champion, Daniel Jacobs, in a contest to take place on December 14 on U.S. soil. The fight be carried on the DAZN streaming platform at a weight between 168 and 170 pounds.
Matt Korobov believes Daniel Jacobs probably will ignore his challenge. The Russian middleweight contender is very willing, however, to fight Jacobs when the former IBF 160-pound champion returns to the ring some time in November. Korobov beat Jacobs when they were amateurs and is certain he’d defeat him again if Jacobs gives him the opportunity.
Maciej Sulecki has branded Demetrius Andrade as one of the ‘weakest Middleweights’ as he plots to rip the WBO World title from him at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday June 29, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK.
Former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez is very firm on his scoring of the recent Cinco De Mayo encounter. Two weeks ago, Marquez was working ringside in Las Vegas and watched his countryman Saul "Canelo" Alvarez win a twelve round unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs to unify the WBC, WBA, IBF middleweight titles at the T-Mobile Arena.
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez continues to serve as among the most bankable boxing stars in the world—even if his latest returns pale in comparison to his own lofty standards. The reigning World middleweight champion added another belt to his collection in a 12-round win over Daniel Jacobs in their May 4 title unification headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event generated a live gate of $8,685,750 from 15,730 tickets sold, according to final receipts submitted to the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
DAZN doesn’t divulge its subscription numbers, but the emerging streaming service deemed the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs fight a success Wednesday as best it could. A press release issued Wednesday afternoon by DAZN revealed that more than 1.2 million viewers watched the Alvarez-Jacobs bout live Saturday night from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. That figure includes subscribers from the eight markets in which DAZN is available – the United States, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland.
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS has dared Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to face him at either middleweight or super-middleweight. Saunders was boosted over the weekend when it was confirmed that his showdown against German based Albanian Shefat Isufi at Stevenage FC’s Lamex Stadium on Saturday May 18 will be for the vacant WBO world super-middleweight championship, live on BT Sport.
LAS VEGAS – Weight was a divisive issue before Canelo Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs fought Saturday night. The 6-feet Jacobs came in 3½ pounds over the contracted limit of 170 at their second-day weigh-in Saturday morning. That decision is believed to have cost Jacobs $1 million from his eight-figure purse and gave him a perceived advantage over the significantly shorter Alvarez.
LAS VEGAS – Errol Spence Jr. never broke stride Saturday night, but he provided pause for thought. While leaving the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title fight at T-Mobile Arena, Spence was asked about eventually moving up to fight Alvarez. Spence, the IBF welterweight champion, didn’t flat out reject the prospect of jumping up two weight classes to battle the Mexican icon.
The man who many view as the greatest Mexican fighter in history, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., believes Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is now among the ten best Mexican fighters in boxing history. But, he feels Canelo still has a ways to go before he reaches the level of being in the top three or four on that list.