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WTF are they waiting for exactly, that would be a huge fight in Brooklyn at the Barclays already so why waste time fighting Sergio Mora? Fight GGG Now FORGET Sergio Mora!
I'm hearing guys "TALK ABOUT" how they want a big match to the Boxing Media but how many are actually negotiating behind close doors?Comment
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"When the fight comes in line." What the **** does that mean? The fight is in line right now. GGG is champion. Jacobs has a fake belt too. Neither has anyone else to fight. Make the ****ing fight already. Or is Jacobs ducking like all the PBC fighters and half the HBO fighters?Comment
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is golovkin's team even talking about Jacobs? Doesn't seem so. Talking about where the buck stops, but it never seems to stop at golovkin's doorstep.Comment
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Why would politics stop fights from happening? Only reason why it's not happening is because you're making it an excuse.Comment
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Actually on September 1st, there won't be anymore boxing in the state of NY. The NYSAC passed a bill that goes into effect requiring a million dollar bond per fighter for insurance reasons, stemming from the Mago incident. Both Arum & DiBella already said unless it gets amended, they won't be doing anymore shows in NY. Barclays & MSG will go dark for boxing, and Danny Jacobs will be the face of Brooklyn who can't fight in Brooklyn.
If Golovkin/Jacobs happens in December, it'll probably be at the new MGM.
Proposed MMA clause would ‘end boxing in NY as we know it’
By George Willis May 17, 2016 | 7:16pm
Broadway Boxing has been a staple of New York’s boxing scene for 12 years, offering a grass roots platform for prospects to groom into champions. Star Boxing offers the same opportunity with club shows on Long Island. Madison Square Garden is known as the Mecca of Boxing, while Barclays Center is building its own ring tradition.
But boxing in New York could become all but extinct if a clause in the newly signed bill legalizing mixed martial arts isn’t adjusted.
Included in the bill, signed by Gov. Cuomo on April 14, is an increase in the medical insurance promoters are required to have on each fighter competing in a boxing or MMA event. The minimum requirement for basic medical insurance has been increased from $10,000 to $50,000, which isn’t a huge issue, local boxing promoters say.
What would ruin their business is a late ********* that requires promoters to provide additional insurance or a financial guarantee of $1 million on each fighter to cover medical, surgical and hospital care for the treatment of life-threatening brain injuries.
For starters, it’s doubtful an insurance company will underwrite a million-dollar policy on potential brain injuries to a boxer. Secondly, the premiums would be massive. If no insurance can be found, requiring a million-dollar bond on each fighter is more risk than most promoters or venues can take. Industry giants such as UFC, Top Rank Inc. and Golden Boy promotions might be able to absorb such costs, but smaller companies can’t.
“If that law is not repealed or changed, it would end boxing in New York as we know it,” Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment said. “It’ll be the end of boxing on a regular basis in New York.”
Joe DeGuardia, the head of Star Boxing, also expressed doom.
“That kind of insurance would be impossible to get for a local, non-HBO type show,” he said. “The amount is too high. It will make it where fighters won’t be able to fight here in New York.”
That’s not all. The increase in medical insurance also will keep smaller MMA promotional companies out of New York. Jimmy Burchfield Jr., vice-president of CES (Classic Entertainment & Sports) MMA, based in Rhode Island, had to abandon plans to hold an event in New York.
“We were in serious discussions to bring the first show to New York before the UFC or Bellator,” Burchfield said. “But that $50,000 is a huge line item. It takes us out of the ballpark. You’re probably not going to see many companies our size risk doing a show there.”
The New York State Athletic Commission does have the jurisdiction to “adjust” the insurance requirements prior to Sept. 1. David Berlin, who had served as executive director of the NYSAC for the last two years, had quieted concerns of local promoters by assuring them he favored eliminating the million-dollar requirement.
But Berlin unexpectedly was removed from his position on Monday and replaced by Eric Bentley. Berlin was offered reassignment in the commission’s legal department, but he wrote a letter of resignation to Gov. Cuomo on Monday.
“My decision was to say no to the proposition,” Berlin told The Post on Tuesday. “I saw it as their attempt to orchestrate the way that I was removed from the commission to paint a nice public image and say something like, David Berlin returned to his first love, the law, and returned to the legal department. That was a false picture and I wasn’t about to be party to that kind of orchestration.”
Berlin has no say now, but favored an adjustment to the current insurance legislation.
“Based on my research and based on speaking with insurance brokers, the million-dollar requirement is something most underwriters will not even underwrite and if they do it would be prohibitively expensive,” he said. “I don’t think anything is good that drives boxing out of New York. Certainly, no clause can be helpful to boxers which causes boxers to lose the opportunity to fight. This clause has that practical effect.”
It’s not clear where Bentley stands. He did not return a call from The Post. The Commission has expanded to five commissioners and will undoubtedly vote on a potential adjustment. Right now a bill once viewed as a means to increase combat business in the state actually will diminish it.
The bill had been approved in the State Assembly on March 23 by a vote of 113 in favor and 25 against. To satisfy lingering concerns about brain injuries, a clause was added requiring promoters to carry $1 million of insurance or a $1 million bond on each fighter in the case of traumatic brain injuries. Assembly majority leader Joseph Morelle, the lead sponsor of the bill, said the clause “would enhance the safety of all participants.”
The clause has good intentions, but only a powerful promoter like the UFC can afford the $1 million bond. Just about every other promotional company in boxing or MMA can’t. The New York State Athletic Commission has until Sept. 1 to “adjust” the minimum requirements, but it’s uncertain how and when that might happen.
“My feeling is if this becomes law, the only thing you may end up seeing in New York is four UFC shows a year,” said Randy Gordon, a former chairman of the NYSAC.
There is chatter the UFC pushed through the clause to limit rival promoters from coming into New York. At the very least, it offered no objection.
“The UFC welcomed the legislation, so I assume they had knowledge of what was going on,” said Jimmy Burchfield Jr., VP of CES MMA based in Rhode Island. “We’re at the next level, and I can’t imagine any of the companies I’m aware that can afford that line item budget. If that was the UFC’s intention, it’s certainly a way of keeping all the other competition out of the state.”Comment
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Funny cause when someone in his division has shown actual true interest in fighting him, the fight gets negotiated and signed within a week or two.. Lemieux, Eubank being the latest examples.
Guys who pop up when he's about to sign to fight someone else have no real interest in fighting him. believe what you want though.Comment
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Did you watch the videos in the link?
They even asked Jacobs, and they said K2 asked him about facing GGG and that he was offered same money as he got for Quillin ($1.5 million), he said he will not fight GGG for "chump change, bla bla GGG is the best of his generation and he wants to build the fight, collect other titles and fight him in 1.5 years when the fight makes BIG MONEY.
The question is what does Jacobs bring to the table that he thinks he is worth $3-4 million? His fight with Quillin flopped, only 8k live viewers and desastrous TV ratings. Only a worthless secondary WBA Belt and extremely inactive.
Will he get any bigger by rematching Sergio Mora? I guess the opposite happens.Comment
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Jacobs says Golovkin fight can happen in 1 1/2 years from now
By Dan Ambrose:
WBA World middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (31-1, 28 KOs) says he probably won’t be facing IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) for another 1 ½ years from now. In other words, Jacobs is using the same approach as Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to wait a year and a half before he decides to fight Golovkin.
Jacobs, 28, wants to wait until the money is right, because right now, he feels the fight isn’t offering the kind of money that he wants it to. Jacobs thinks that by waiting close to two more years, the fight will pay for itself. Jacobs didn’t come right out and say that he thinks it will be on HBO PPV, but that’s a possibility.
“Triple G is going to come at the right time,” said Jacobs to Fighthype.com. “When it does come, it’s going to be right for me on all aspects, and that’s the only reason the fight hasn’t been made. It will happen very soon. I would say in the next year and a half or something to that effect. I want to collect belts, and then go for the gusto. It’ll be worth a lot more as opposed to just doing it right now. I’ll fight anyone in the world, and I want to fight Triple G. My thing was, I wanted to get BJ Saunders or possibly Canelo, and then go for Triple G,” said Jacobs.Comment
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