Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Coach: Danny Jacobs No Longer Calls For GGG Fight!

[Scipio2009]

What point are you trying to make here?

The Quillin-Jacobs event lost a ton of money, they sold roughly 9000 tickets and had 300k viewers... no way those numbers covered the 3 million purse, GGG is more marketable than Jacobs any day of the week. The fact that you think he needs to compromise to make the matchup is simply asinine.

All you're proving is that anyone holding a belt (except Lemieux) would rather drop it than defend it against GGG.

I'm not one of these G-tards that slurps everything he and his promoter/trainer put out there but at 160 there is no valid criticism of this man, Jacobs is very overrated in my opinion and Golovkin would make short work of him. I'm certain Jacobs knows this too otherwise he would be more vocal about the fight.

He doesn't have to call out GGG but lets not find some silly way to make this a criticism of Golovkin.

For as "high up the totem pole" folks want to argue that Golovkin is, there's more money/push backing "Miracle Man" Daniel Jacobs than there is backing Gennady Golovkin.

Even if Jacobs-Quillin only sold 9,000 tickets (though I can't find the pricing for the seats, Jacobs-Quillin started at $50, and the pricing scheme for Thurman-Porter, at the same venue with the same promoter, is basically $500/$400/$300/$250/$200/$150/$125/$100/$75/$50), the assumption that they didn't clear a good amount of money is silly.

And, TV rating aside, Showtime shelled out for the support programming for Jacobs-Quillin, the Jacobs-Quillin fight card, and a full suplementary fight card on SHO Extreme, saw the rating, and were over the moon about it (acknowledging what the rating was, but over the moon with the amount of buzz that the event picked up post-fight, especially with the replays everywhere).

Unlike with Golovkin, Showtime isn't likely to take some massive step back with Jacobs' next big headlining fight, putting more money behind their man if need be.

If Golovkin makes short work of him, then so be it; he finally beat a guy worth beating, cong****.

The more interesting point, though, is that, basically not until the WBA made it clear that Daniel Jacobs was the WBA's mandatory challenger, K2 openly tried to act as if Jacobs didn't exist either, like they've openly continued to do with Lara.

Golovkin's fans seem to have more confidence in certain outcomes than either Golovkin's trainer or promoter are.

[Scipio2009]

Twisting and turning as usual. Showtime can afford to overpay Jacobs/Quillin (neither being a main event before that fight unless you count Quillin/Zerafa, lol), b/c all the other Haymon fighters are getting hedge fund money to appear off Showtime.

Compare Jacobs/Quillin to Golovkin/Geale. Jacobs/Quillin, two Brooklyn guys, sold fewer tickets in NY than a Kazakh and Australian. Jacobs/Quillin, two US guys had less than half as many tv viewers as well.

Whine all you want about who Golovkin beat for his belts, but he had a lot of people moving out of his way. For the WBA, Golovkin won a purse bid to fight Anthony Mundine in Australia. Mundine dropped out. Khurtsidze was the first guy Golovkin contacted to fight for the vacant WBA interim title. Khurtsidze turned Golovkin down.

Unlike Jacobs, Golovkin forced the WBA to give him both the Super Champion Sturm and Interim Champion N'Dam. N'Dam vacated and Sturm paid $300k to put off the fight for over a year. Then before he was finally forced to take the fight he got the Geale unification to bypass the mandatory. Former WBA interim champion - Chudinov couldn't even get Jacobs to fight him.

Golovkin offered to fight Martinez in Argentina instead of Murray, but DiBella said "[Martinez] is not going to come off a 14-month layoff and fight this animal,". That was despite DiBella telling Golovkin that if he beat Macklin that he'd get a fight with Martinez.

http://www.boxingscene.com/golovkin-...ertised--80281

Golovkin-Geale sold how many tickets again? (Adding insult to injury, K2 also staged the venue for apparently only 9k seats, selling tickets largely for $25 and $50).

A simple Google search of "golovkin geale tickets" was all it took to undermine the point.

Mundine "dropped out" and did what exactly? Golovkin "contacted" Khurtsidze and Khurtsidze turned down what, exactly?

The digging will take some time, but it's not like either guy simply stopped taking tough fights, lol. No one has felt the urge to do said digging, which is likely a sigh of relief for K2 and the image that they're crafting.

[Contra]

I still don't understand constantly chasing guys that don't wanna fight, while shunning better fighters that do wanna fight. Guess you gotta have GGG's d1ck in your mouth to make sense of it.

At 154, 160, and 168, there is exactly one guy who seems interested. One guy.

I wouldn't mind a Lara fight, mainly because you mopes will finally shut up about it, but don't pretend it would be a challenge or some shìt. This isn't Lara vs some MW, this is Lara vs the best MW of this generation. Lara loses several rounds vs Martirosyan, and you think he stands a chance against Golovkin? He'll be lucky if he doesn't leave the ring on a stretcher.

Keep in mind, just because he's slick and defensive doesn't mean he's the better fighter.

Gennady will demolish him, and the same people calling for this fight will either:

A: disappear from BoxingScene for a month or so...

or

B: immediately discredit Lara as an opponent.


Mark my words.

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At 154, 160, and 168, there is exactly one guy who seems interested. One guy.

I wouldn't mind a Lara fight, mainly because you mopes will finally shut up about it, but don't pretend it would be a challenge or some shìt. This isn't Lara vs some MW, this is Lara vs the best MW of this generation. Lara loses several rounds vs Martirosyan, and you think he stands a chance against Golovkin? He'll be lucky if he doesn't leave the ring on a stretcher.

Keep in mind, just because he's slick and defensive doesn't mean he's the better fighter.

Gennady will demolish him, and the same people calling for this fight will either:

A: disappear from BoxingScene for a month or so...

or

B: immediately discredit Lara as an opponent.


Mark my words.

GGG will demolish Billy Joe Saunders. He will demolish Danny Jacobs. Why are his fans wanna see those fights? Against guys that really don't wanna fight him. But they don't wanna see Lara, who in a P4P sense is better than those guys. Amd more importantly wants to fight GGG. Its not about "looking for a guy to beat GGG." Most fights fans, myself included, consider Lara a huge underdog against GGG. I've just had enough of GGG using the excuse of certain guys not wanting to fight him as a reason to fight to Willie Monroes and Dominic Wades of the world.

As for your prediction of how GGG's critics will act after the fight. What you don't realize is that his critics don't "hate" him nearly as passionately as his supporters love him. Its basically the Floyd-Manny thing all over again. The Floyd folks saw the fight, habe moved on, and really don't give a **** if they ever see Floyd in a boxing ring again. The Manny folks are putting together slow motion videos. And doing more investigating than a criminal defense team in a murder trail. If GGG beats Lara, he will get the props due. I mean, we won't act like he beat Ray Robinson and the Klitschko brothers in a handicap match like your kind will. We will say its a good win against a good fighter that he was supposed to beat. And then move on to thr next.

[SOPH~ REP.]

Should've been ordered after ko of Qullin Too much time has past. Now will never happen

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Its pretty crazy how all the good fighters in the division want no part of GGG. GGG will be remembered for a long time.