Comments Thread For: DiBella: Network Issues Linger For Golovkin-Jacobs

[West Coast Bias]

If Lee beats Saunders then Jacobs/Lee is next and hopefully Canelo/GGG gets made. Winners fight each other for middleweight supremacy. Now that Nelson is in charge over at HBO, maybe we get Jacobs vs Canelo/GGG on HBO.

[DreamerUSA]

This interview was post fight and before the WBA said they would consider a calling a mandatory. This is why I hope the WBA calls for a mandatory. Jacobs can fight the winner of Saunders/Lee. GGG can fight Johnson and then Jacobs while he waits on Canelo in September. But of course this makes to much sense for boxing.

Actually the winner of the eliminator between Eubanks/Sullivan is Jacobs mandatory. In all likelyhood that is Jacobs next opponent unless he vacates, and I don't see him vacating unless he gets the Lee fight. And like I said in my previous post, I just don't see why Andy would take that fight given what he has said in recent interviews.

[OnePunch]

Lee is different then Jacobs he is not a Haymon signed fighter. Lee can fight anyone on any network. If he chooses to fight Jacobs it will be because HBO isn't trying to make that fight with GGG/Canelo or because he doesn't think Lee can win the fight. But it won't be because Haymon says no. Lou has no say in what Jacobs or any of the Haymon fighters do despite him being the flunky promoter for those fights. He is Haymon's lap dog nothing more.

Dont forget Lee is promoted by Dibella, so odds are Lee is going to fight whoever Lou's boss tells him to fight......

[OnePunch]

This interview was post fight and before the WBA said they would consider a calling a mandatory. This is why I hope the WBA calls for a mandatory. Jacobs can fight the winner of Saunders/Lee. GGG can fight Johnson and then Jacobs while he waits on Canelo in September. But of course this makes to much sense for boxing.

if the WBA calls for mandos, then Jacobs will have his own issues with having to fight Blanco

[Eastcoast]

First off, if Jacobs fights for the WBO title, he has to give up the WBA title. We've already seen that scenario a few times with the WBO not allowing anything less than the WBA super champion unify with their title.


Second, I don't see Peter Nelson allowing Golovkin to be stripped of any of his titles. Listening to an hour long podcast interview with Nelson, he's very committed to Golovkin establishing a Hopkins/Hagler type legacy. It looks like Golovkin's last contractual fight with HBO is his next in February/March vs Johnson. After that I imagine they'll adjust so that if Golovkin loses a purse bid, Haymon can pay him to destroy Jacobs on one of his networks.

[Eastcoast]

Dont forget Lee is promoted by Dibella, so odds are Lee is going to fight whoever Lou's boss tells him to fight......

Idk. DiBella was the one who actually setup the HBO deal to show Lee/Saunders. It was Warren who stepped in and blocked, claiming he owned the tv rights. Warren also stated before that Lee/Golovkin were already in negotiations. I'm just wondering if the WBO would allow Golovkin to unify b/c he's holding the WBC interim title?

[OnePunch]

Idk. DiBella was the one who actually setup the HBO deal to show Lee/Saunders. It was Warren who stepped in and blocked, claiming he owned the tv rights. Warren also stated before that Lee/Golovkin were already in negotiations. I'm just wondering if the WBO would allow Golovkin to unify b/c he's holding the WBC interim title?

good point. I forgot about that

[Bronx2245]

Fighters know that when they sign contracts with certain networks, or sign with certain promoters, that it is highly unlikely that they will fight certain fighters. I hate when fighters sign with promoter A, or network A, then call out fighters on other networks, or worse, call them cowards! They knew when they signed what was going happen, so stop tripping! IT IS WHAT IT IS!

[Eastcoast]

Fighters know that when they sign contracts with certain networks, or sign with certain promoters, that it is highly unlikely that they will fight certain fighters. I hate when fighters sign with promoter A, or network A, then call out fighters on other networks, or worse, call them cowards! They knew when they signed what was going happen, so stop tripping! IT IS WHAT IT IS!

In Jacobs' case, he's not signed to a network or a promoter.

[about.thousands]

Actually the winner of the eliminator between Eubanks/Sullivan is Jacobs mandatory. In all likelyhood that is Jacobs next opponent unless he vacates, and I don't see him vacating unless he gets the Lee fight. And like I said in my previous post, I just don't see why Andy would take that fight given what he has said in recent interviews.

In exceptional circu

if the WBA calls for mandos, then Jacobs will have his own issues with having to fight Blanco

In exceptional circumstances, the Championships
Committee and the President may designate a Champion (other than an Interim Champion) as a
Super Champion. The President and Committee may establish criteria for a Super
Championship. In such a designation, the Committee President may determine conditions and
requirements of defenses and retention of such a title, including, but not limited to, the following:
a. Mandatory defense period;

http://www.wbanews.com/wp-content/up...ia-6-11-15.pdf

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