Dan Rafael: On Golovkin vs Jacobs "Strong chance it will be on HBO PPV"

[Cinci Champ]

Are you sure Showtime has the budget to accommodate Jacobs' asking price without going on PPV?

and the excuse for crawford postol?

[Bullrider]

and the excuse for crawford postol?

Crawford also wanted too much money on that fight, thus it's on PPV. Otherwise, fight wouldn't have happened.

[Cinci Champ]

Crawford also wanted too much money on that fight, thus it's on PPV. Otherwise, fight wouldn't have happened.

crawford made 1.3 mil and postol 675k come one bro quit giving hbo excuses

[Bullrider]

crawford made 1.3 mil and postol 675k come one bro quit giving hbo excuses

Those are guaranteed purses. Meaning, Crawford wanted more, so doing it on PPV was a compromise. It's not like the fight was guaranteed to do huge ratings. Boxing is not charity bro.

[GMAN SUPREME]

uhhh no it wont

ggg vs lemeuix did 150k.kovalev vs wart did 160k.jacobs is more known than david is in america.it will sell more.

[Rock&Roll]

Hey, your personal msg function is turned off but just wanted to say keep up good work. You are regular poster on here and usually informative, objective posts.

[Dr Rumack]

Honestly, I don't think its greed. Its lack of funding,,, hbo and showtime aren't speniding as much money on boxing, the networks won't pay, so the only thing to fund it is PPV.. 10 years ago hbo is showing this

It's a combination of both. At this point the fighters are complicit in doing harm to the sport. And if Golovkin-Jacobs being put behind yet another paywall isn't damaging the sport, then I don't know what it.

Some fans are still so caught up in this idea of fighters being victims that they think it's ok for them to demand anything, and it's a good thing if they get it. That really isn't the case. They are strangling the sport.

[Dr Rumack]

Surely Canelo can't run from the winner of this. What else is out there for him?

[Chollo Vista]

The same people dissing Jacobs now, were the same ones who said Jacobs would be the best fight for GGG. You can't make this stuff up. Just goes to show that no matter who he fights at 160, they will be mad.

Ummmm no, the people criticizing this PPV fight are the same people that said GGG is a star, sells stadiums and got mad when Jacobs said he would fight gg for the right price.

In other words, the people criticizing this fight are Ggg fans

[MDPopescu]

... they managed to spin GGG off... The (already) old Russian fighter doesn't count much within the "scene of boxing"...