Daniel Jacobs: record, next fight and profile →
It might not be the biggest fight they ever air but Saturday’s main event is the sort of fight the 9-figure DAZN acquisition of Saul Alvarez’s services was all about. It’s pretty simple: a year ago, Alvarez-Jacobs is on pay-per-view for at least seventy dollars. Tomorrow, this middleweight championship contest is available for a lot less with the idea of getting subscribers to sign up for the long haul.
Fight night in Las Vegas carries a very different meaning for both Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs. The two will share a ring in Sin City on May 4, with their forthcoming middleweight title unification bout to stream live on sports streaming platform DAZN from the T-Mobile Arena, where Alvarez will headline for the fifth time since its doors opened in 2016.
LAS VEGAS – Eddie Hearn wasn’t kidding. Daniel Jacobs’ promoter suggested Wednesday that Jacobs could ignore the 170-pound limit for his second-day weigh-in the morning of his fight against Canelo Alvarez. The steep penalty – $250,000 per pound over 170 – was thought to be prohibitive, but Hearn clarified that weighing over 170 pounds Saturday morning wouldn’t cost Jacobs his IBF middleweight or prevent the fight from happening.
LAS VEGAS – Gennadiy Golovkin declined to respond Saturday to the harsh words his former trainer delivered last week. Abel Sanchez painted Golovkin as a greedy, ungrateful fighter once the former middleweight champion announced April 22 that he was parting ways with his longtime trainer. Golovkin announced during a press conference Saturday morning at MGM Grand that Johnathon Banks has replaced Sanchez.
LAS VEGAS - You can count Curtis Stevens among the interested observers of Saturday's unification clash between WBC/WBA middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez and IBF champion Danny Jacobs. The fight takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and will be streamed live on DAZN.
LAS VEGAS – If you’d like to know the weights from the second-day weigh-in for Canelo Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs, good luck. A strict confidentiality agreement among the two sides have prevented either camp from disclosing what Alvarez and Jacobs weighed on Saturday morning. The lack of disclosure doesn’t mean either fighter came in over the stipulated cap of 170 pounds, 10 pounds above the middleweight limit of 160.
Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez only has two-plus rounds of experience at super middleweight, but Callum Smith saw enough to produce a scouting report. Alvarez destroyed Rocky Fielding inside three rounds during his super middleweight debut in December at Madison Square Garden in New York. Alvarez dropped Fielding four times with devastating body punches to capture the WBA secondary title.
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs share a common opponent in Gennady Golovkin. All three bouts produced disputed decisions in the end—fittingly with both boxers landing the camp of common opinion in disagreeing with the final outcome for the other.
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez already has made hundreds of millions of dollars and won world titles in three weight classes. Still just 28, he has been involved in some of the biggest pay-per-view events in boxing history. Along the way, he has become one of the most beloved boxers in Mexico’s rich history in the sport.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs, was shocked at the behavior of WBC, WBA middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. The two boxers nearly brawled during Friday's official weigh-in.