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Because Jacobs and Lara are seemingly on parallel tracks at the moment (Lara, well on his way as establishing himself as the best 154 fighter on the planet, and Jacobs just emerging as a top 3 middleweight in his own right).
If Jermell(WBC 154) and Jermall(IBF 154) win their fights, and Lara(WBA super 154) wins his fight, the Plex Gym camp would be home to 3 of the 4 154 titlist at the weight; Lara still has potential fights with Andrade, JRock, and Soro before the options narrow down to guys in his own camp (Erickson Lubin likely hangs around as the next major threat for a bit).
Daniel Jacobs is basically on the cusp of fighting Golovkin next (timing on things being different now; now with 30 days after the fight instead of 15 days, Canelo can stall the vacate decision to early June, with the WBA making Jacobs their mandatory challenger by mid-June at the latest, pushing the purse bid off until early July, for a fight that would then be staged for September, if Golovkin was really serious about that "I want all of the middleweight belts" nonsense). Beyond that, if Golovkin does vacate the belt (as I'm starting to expect), Jacobs is settling into his home at Barclays Center, with a decent list of middleweight fights to work through; Quillin/Mora rematches, Andy Lee, Avtandil Khurtsidze(guy who throttled Antoine Douglas; based in Brooklyn), Billy Joe Saunders, Hassan N'Dam, Willie Monroe Jr (fight would be whatever, but Monroe is also a New York-based fighter), and Chris Eubank Jr to begin with.
Golovkin needs to fight someone worth fighting, and he needs to do so soon (if he gets thrown in with another can, especially after this push from the general audience about how good a fighter he's supposed to be, the goodwill is going to leave real quick). Fighting Lara gives Golovkin that legit guy.
If Jermell(WBC 154) and Jermall(IBF 154) win their fights, and Lara(WBA super 154) wins his fight, the Plex Gym camp would be home to 3 of the 4 154 titlist at the weight; Lara still has potential fights with Andrade, JRock, and Soro before the options narrow down to guys in his own camp (Erickson Lubin likely hangs around as the next major threat for a bit).
Daniel Jacobs is basically on the cusp of fighting Golovkin next (timing on things being different now; now with 30 days after the fight instead of 15 days, Canelo can stall the vacate decision to early June, with the WBA making Jacobs their mandatory challenger by mid-June at the latest, pushing the purse bid off until early July, for a fight that would then be staged for September, if Golovkin was really serious about that "I want all of the middleweight belts" nonsense). Beyond that, if Golovkin does vacate the belt (as I'm starting to expect), Jacobs is settling into his home at Barclays Center, with a decent list of middleweight fights to work through; Quillin/Mora rematches, Andy Lee, Avtandil Khurtsidze(guy who throttled Antoine Douglas; based in Brooklyn), Billy Joe Saunders, Hassan N'Dam, Willie Monroe Jr (fight would be whatever, but Monroe is also a New York-based fighter), and Chris Eubank Jr to begin with.
Golovkin needs to fight someone worth fighting, and he needs to do so soon (if he gets thrown in with another can, especially after this push from the general audience about how good a fighter he's supposed to be, the goodwill is going to leave real quick). Fighting Lara gives Golovkin that legit guy.
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