December 10: No Joshua-Klitschko, no Golovkin-Jacobs

[BennyBlanco]

Klitschko and K2 have managed to snatch defeat out of boxing fans' jaws of victory...Wladimir is walking away from a done deal to fight Joshua for big $$$ and will instead fight 37-year-old Lucas Browne (who turned pro at age 30) for the WBA title. Thanks for nothing, Wlad.

No Golovkin-Jacobs on December 10 either. No big surprise here though...HBO was the one pushing for an unrealistically early December 10 date for Golovkin-Jacobs.

Now that Klitschko has set December 10 as the firm date for his next fight, it would have been extremely unlikely that GGG would have fought on the same date; K2 and Loeffler can't be in two places at once. GGG is now targeting first quarter of 2017 for the Jacobs fight.

Until then, we have Luis Ortiz-Malik Scott and BHop-Smith to hold us over...

[Rudiamonds]

If this is true K2 really just dropped the ball

[Grimmer]

Wlad wants to pick up an easy belt against Lucas Browne or Fred Oquendo and hold defend it against tomato cans in Germany until he retires.

[KillaCamNZ]

I've gotta side with Wlad on this until proven otherwise - Eddie Hearn has come out with 147 different versions of this story, and I don't believe 147 of them.

AJ is going to have to wait a little bit longer to have an opponent above club level on his resume.

[PK3434]

If this is true K2 really just dropped the ball

For what its worth, I am pretty sure that Golovkin and Klitschko have seperate representation for their fights. K2-East or K2-Ukraine (whatever its called) operates separately from the US wing which Tom Loefler runs. For example, Klitschko and his team don't really represent or negotiate on behalf GGG and I don't believe Loefler has had any involvement with guys like Usyk (until he were to fight in the US).

[TheCell8]

Money is not an issue for Klitschko.

The belts matter to him because he loses bargaining power without them.

With two belts he can dictate terms to other fighters, and champions, instead of just taking 50/50 splits with other champions like he did with David Haye back in 2011. As it stands, without the belt he's the B-Side to Joshua.

As for Jacobs. Haymon could still put up a massive bid.

[Ray*]

Really hope Team Wlad is better than that, if this is true then what's the point? Unless fans in Germany are happy to see Wlad walking down the tunnel in his shoulder pad knocking low/over matched out.

[Ray*]

Money is not an issue for Klitschko.

The belts matter to him because he loses bargaining power without them.

With two belts he can dictate terms to other fighters, and champions, instead of just taking 50/50 splits with other champions like he did with David Haye back in 2011. As it stands, without the belt he's the B-Side to Joshua.

As for Jacobs. Haymon could still put up a massive bid.

Wlad is b side to Joshua? Really? So Wlad is nothing without a belt? Hope that isn't the case.

[TheCell8]

Really hope Team Wlad is better than that, if this is true then what's the point? Unless fans in Germany are happy to see Wlad walking down the tunnel in his shoulder pad knocking low/over matched out.

Well if he picks up another belt, he can reenter negotiations with Joshua and ask for 50/50.

As it stands he's the B-Side without the belt. With the WBA strap though, they'll have to pay him.

[TheCell8]

Wlad is b side to Joshua? Really? So Wlad is nothing without a belt? Hope that isn't the case.

Joshua is most certainly getting the bigger split based off what I read. Wlad is getting a lot, but he's not getting the Lion's share. Especially since the fight is in England and Joshua is the champion.