The Super Bowl of fights already took place on Sept. 14 when Floyd Mayweather Jr. out-pointed Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas in the biggest fight of the year.
But there’s another fight that could potentially happen on Super Bowl weekend in Brooklyn, New York, sharing some of the attention of the NFL’s title game and cultural happening at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, told a small group of reporters on Wednesday he’s working on making a fight between WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin and the cancer-survivor Danny Jacobs of Brooklyn for February 1, the day before Super Bowl XLVIII in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, provided that Quillin wins on Saturday night in his title fight with Philly’s Gabe Rosado in Atlantic City. Quillin did his part, stopping Rosado in the tenth round on cuts, making the fight closer to becoming a reality. [Click Here To Read More]
But there’s another fight that could potentially happen on Super Bowl weekend in Brooklyn, New York, sharing some of the attention of the NFL’s title game and cultural happening at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, told a small group of reporters on Wednesday he’s working on making a fight between WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin and the cancer-survivor Danny Jacobs of Brooklyn for February 1, the day before Super Bowl XLVIII in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, provided that Quillin wins on Saturday night in his title fight with Philly’s Gabe Rosado in Atlantic City. Quillin did his part, stopping Rosado in the tenth round on cuts, making the fight closer to becoming a reality. [Click Here To Read More]
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