Daniel Jacobs: record, next fight and profile →
Daniel Jacobs has altered his rankings of super middleweight champions. After more consideration, the former IBF/WBA middleweight champ has listed WBO title-holder Billy Joe Saunders last among boxing’s four super middleweight champions. Jacobs initially called Caleb Plant the most beatable of those four champions during an Instagram Live interview with promoter Eddie Hearn late in March.
John Ryder says a win over former IBF Middleweight ruler Danny Jacobs in New York would fire him back in line for another shot at WBA Super-Middleweight World Champion Callum Smith as he spoke to Chris Lloyd in the latest episode of Matchroom Boxing’s podcast ‘The Lockdown Tapes’.
Demetrius Andrade hopes to finally get to face bitter rival Billy Joe Saunders when boxing returns – and told Matchroom Boxing’s Podcast ‘The Lockdown Tapes’ that he would ‘bust up’ the Brit if they clashed.
Daniel Jacobs is targeting Super-Middleweight champions Callum Smith and Billy Joe Saunders as he told the latest episode of Matchroom Boxing’s Podcast ‘The Lockdown Tapes’ the steps he needs to take to reach the hall of fame.
By Dan Rafael - Talk to any boxing promoter, manager or television executive with an involvement in the sport and they will all tell you that when fights do resume they will take place in controlled environments without spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic. While that scenario will mean cards will generate less revenue due to not having any ticket-buying...
By Dan Rafael - If things were normal in boxing, former middleweight world titlist Daniel Jacobs would be a few weeks into training camp for his next bout, his second since moving up to the super middleweight division. But these are not normal times. Jacobs’ next fight, the third of his deal with DAZN, was tentatively scheduled for June 13 – site and opponent...
Callum Smith wants super middleweight title unification fights. If the unbeaten Brit can’t secure such challenges against Billy Joe Saunders, David Benavidez or Caleb Plant, Daniel Jacobs is the challenger that interests Smith most. Smith, the WBA 168-pound champion, assessed potentially opposing Jacobs on Friday as part of an Instagram Live interview with Eddie Hearn, whose company promotes Smith and Jacobs.
Gabe Rosado trained for his last fight as if he, not Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., would actually battle Daniel Jacobs. Predictably, Chavez came in nearly five pounds overweight for that December 20 bout in Phoenix. Jacobs boxed Chavez anyway, which left Rosado, a contracted backup for Chavez, to out-point Mexican veteran Humberto Gutierrez Ochoa following the main event, in an essentially empty Talking Stick Resort Arena.
The super middleweight championship match seemingly most makeable for Daniel Jacobs would be a shot at Callum’s Smith’s WBA 168-pound title. Brooklyn’s Jacobs and England’s Smith both are promoted by Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing. And now that Smith knows he won’t get a lucrative showdown with Canelo Alvarez at any point in the foreseeable future, a well-known opponent Alvarez has beaten is interested in facing the Liverpool native
Daniel Jacobs came closer to beating Gennadiy Golovkin than he did winning his fight against Canelo Alvarez. The former IBF and WBA middleweight champion still considers the Golovkin fight to have been a more challenging assignment than his loss to Mexico’s Alvarez. Jacobs compared those two 12-round, unanimous-decision defeats during an Instagram Live interview with promoter Eddie Hearn on Monday.