How come the WBA suddenly turned quiet about the plans to order GGG vs Jacobs?

[Jubei]

Exactly 2 months ago WBA president Gilberto Mendoza made some noise that he would oder Danny Jacobs to fight GGG to get rid of that fake WBA belt and have a real WBA champion as soon it is clear GGG will not fight Canelo this fall.

You can read about it here:

http://www.boxingscene.com/wba-if-no-golovkin-canelo-we-order-ggg-danny-jacobs--103815

"He is the mandatory for Golovkin," said Gilberto Mendoza Jr. the head of the WBA, who was at the Golovkin card this weekend. "The thing we're trying to work out is I don't want any controversy with the WBC regarding the 'Canelo' (Saul Alvarez) situation.

So we're trying to sit down with Mauricio (Sulaiman) and work it out."

Whenever the WBC situation is cleared up, it's at that point the WBA will react accordingly. "We used to work with rotations,"said Mendoza of unified champions and their mandatory obligations."It's supposed to be our turn, right now."

Canelo made it clear two weeks that he is moving down in weight fighting for a 154lb title against Liam Smith and the GGG negotiations are on hold until late 2017.

Now the WBA / Mendoza suddenly turned quiet.

Jacobs recently stated that GGG is the "best of his generation", and to fight him he would have to get a very generous amount of money, not "chump change" ($1.5 million) what he got against Quillin. Jacobs vs Quillin had very bad ratings and sold few tickets, but Jacobs thinks he is worth $3-4 million, basically pricing himself out and rather having a rematch against Sergio Mora.

Is Haymon involved with all this? Did Haymon pay off Mendoza so Jacobs can keep his fake belt and doesn't have to fight GGG?

A similar scenario occured many years ago when Felix Sturm bought his "Super Champion Belt" from the WBA to avoid facing his mandatory GGG.

[Clegg]

I don't think Haymon bribed anyone, I don't think the WBA needs bribes really, they are happy to have as many belts and sanctioning fees as possible and any public talk of reducing the belts is just BS.

[Jubei]

I don't think Haymon bribed anyone, I don't think the WBA needs bribes really, they are happy to have as many belts and sanctioning fees as possible and any public talk of reducing the belts is just BS.

Then they wouldnt have made a huge noise about it 2 months ago.

If they intended to keep the many belts why would they brag about reducing the belts and order GGG vs Jacobs as soon the Canelo situation is cleared?

Something is clearly fishy there, if Jacobs wanted that fight to happen you can bet on it, the WBA would have ordered it already. Haymon doesn't want it, Jacobs doesn't want it so they rather pay the WBA some bucks to shut up and Jacobs can keep his fake belt.

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[boliodogs]

If Jacobs is like 98% of the middleweights he doesn't want to fight GGG and would not ask anyone to make that fight. Haymon tends to protect his fighters and that means keeping them out of the ring with GGG. I don't know why the WBA wouldn't want Jacobs to fight GGG unless they prefer having 2 champions to having 1 champion.

[PK3434]

Both guys are fighting in September. If they don't order it after that, it is most likely a Haymon thing.

[Clegg]

Then they wouldnt have made a huge noise about it 2 months ago.

If they intended to keep the many belts why would they brag about reducing the belts and order GGG vs Jacobs as soon the Canelo situation is cleared?

Something is clearly fishy there, if Jacobs wanted that fight to happen you can bet on it, the WBA would have ordered it already. Haymon doesn't want it, Jacobs doesn't want it so they rather pay the WBA some bucks to shut up and Jacobs can keep his fake belt.

How did they make a huge noise about it? He was asked a direct question and used the excuse that he was standing back to let the WBC do their thing. Now the WBC situation is cleared up the WBA aren't doing anything because they never intended to in the first place. There is no change in stance really, they weren't ordering the fight last week, last month or last year and they aren't doing it now.

Jacobs isn't pushing the WBA for the fight, GGG isn't pushing the WBA for the fight, the WBA want those sanctioning fees so they do nothing. It was the same with the Fortuna/Uchiyama situation. The WBA were supposed to be ordering it but neither side seemed keen so they just let them fight different people.

[BoxingFan85]

I think WBA also issued a statement sometime last month that both fighters can also have an interim fight before the mandatory fight.. & the interim fight for Danny is Mora..

[jqSide]

WBA doesn't have to do anything. If Jacobs want it, he could easily make Haymon start the negotiating wheel rolling.

[Rip Chudd]

I thought Haymon was broke, now all of a sudden he has money to pay organizations off? This site man, I swear