Comments Thread For: HBO Sports Officially Announces Golovkin-Jacobs for 3/18 at MSG

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NEW YORK CITY (December 21, 2016) - "The Mecca of Boxing" and "The World's Most Famous Arena," Madison Square Garden will host unified middleweight world Champion, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) as he defends his titles (WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO) against WBA world middleweight champion and mandatory challenger, Brooklyn's Daniel "Miracle Man" Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) on Saturday, March 18, 2017. The championship event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
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[PoserExposer]

Middleweight Madness? How about PPV Madness? Great fight and I like both fighters but neither command that kind of PPV viewership.

[Ham Porter]

Where was this "huge Brooklyn fan base" when he fought Quillin?

[taes]

"You have the two best middleweights in the world going head to head for the majority of the belts". What belt does Jacobs have!! Every GGG fight is for the majority of the belts. Good fight but enough with the hype ****. Around about now, Saunders is due to fire in with some comment like "....unless you have faced me you haven't faced one of the best". Strip that f***ker's belt. Even his trainer has now had enough of him and left because he won't waste his time on a great, fat, waste of space.

[brettWall]

Come on, Chollo Vista, stop lurking and make your presence known. You don't have to hide.

[boxingitis]

Cant wait. 2017 is looking great.

[GaryMSchneider]

All ten of the GGG trolls and haters will try to say that the Jacobs fight is a nothing fight just to support their claim that GGG has still fought nobody. Well to you ten trolls I say Lol. ''GGG is one of the greatest middleweights ever.'' as Roy Jones said the other day. GGG has fought the best that would fight him. Miguel Cotto ducked GGG. Sergio Martinez ducked GGG. Canelo ducked GGG. Andre Ward wanted a tuneup fight. Canelo Alvarez says he's not yet a middleweight. Miguel Cotto had zero interest. Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he's way too big for his son. Carl Froch is retiring. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is imploding. He'd be widely acclaimed as one of the world's great fighters, except it's kind of hard to judge him because he's never stood across the ring from another A-level opponent.

He'd get that with Ward. Or Alvarez. Or Cotto. Or one of any of a handful of fighters, none of whom seems too interested in getting into the ring with him.
And merrily, Gennady Golovkin just fights on, scoring brutal knockouts each time out and adding fans by the day. Ward talked a good game but he wanted nothing to do with GGG. Carl Froch turned down big money to fight GGG. While the Mayweather sycophants would undoubtedly say that Golovkin has never seen anyone like Mayweather, the reverse is also true: Mayweather has never faced an opponent as dangerous, and with as many tools, as Golovkin. So that fight will never happen even though GGG would fight at 154 for that fight. GGG would walk right through anything Mayweather threw and beat him down. Mayweather is 49-0 and still a marvel inside the ring, but his once-impregnable defense has been broken down by Maidana. He'd have great difficulty at 38 years old standing up to the punishing onslaught Golovkin would bring. Rest assured, though, that fight will never occur, and not just because of Mayweather's ties to Showtime and Golovkin's to HBO. Mayweather has one of boxing's most astute minds and he knows a Golovkin fight would be extraordinarily difficult for him. The two men are polar opposites of each other in many ways. Mayweather was a master defender, while Golovkin is a crushing puncher who may be the finest offensive machine in boxing since a prime Marvelous Marvin Hagler more than a quarter of a century ago.

[Bronx2245]

Thurman vs. Garcia and GGG vs. Jacobs. MARCH MADNESS!!! Good thing only one fight is a PPV! Not sure if i'll pay, but i'll wait to see what the GGG vs. Jacobs undercard looks like! In a perfect world, BJ Saunders would face Khurtsidze on the undercard!

[The Big Dunn]

HBO had the press announcement ready and the tickets priced and ready very quickly. I read from this that they had to give Jacobs what he wanted or all of the pre announcement groundwork they laid would have been wasted.

[boliodogs]

All ten of the GGG trolls and haters will try to say that the Jacobs fight is a nothing fight just to support their claim that GGG has still fought nobody. Well to you ten trolls I say Lol. ''GGG is one of the greatest middleweights ever.'' as Roy Jones said the other day. GGG has fought the best that would fight him. Miguel Cotto ducked GGG. Sergio Martinez ducked GGG. Canelo ducked GGG. Andre Ward wanted a tuneup fight. Canelo Alvarez says he's not yet a middleweight. Miguel Cotto had zero interest. Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he's way too big for his son. Carl Froch is retiring. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is imploding. He'd be widely acclaimed as one of the world's great fighters, except it's kind of hard to judge him because he's never stood across the ring from another A-level opponent.

He'd get that with Ward. Or Alvarez. Or Cotto. Or one of any of a handful of fighters, none of whom seems too interested in getting into the ring with him.
And merrily, Gennady Golovkin just fights on, scoring brutal knockouts each time out and adding fans by the day. Ward talked a good game but he wanted nothing to do with GGG. Carl Froch turned down big money to fight GGG. While the Mayweather sycophants would undoubtedly say that Golovkin has never seen anyone like Mayweather, the reverse is also true: Mayweather has never faced an opponent as dangerous, and with as many tools, as Golovkin. So that fight will never happen even though GGG would fight at 154 for that fight. GGG would walk right through anything Mayweather threw and beat him down. Mayweather is 49-0 and still a marvel inside the ring, but his once-impregnable defense has been broken down by Maidana. He'd have great difficulty at 38 years old standing up to the punishing onslaught Golovkin would bring. Rest assured, though, that fight will never occur, and not just because of Mayweather's ties to Showtime and Golovkin's to HBO. Mayweather has one of boxing's most astute minds and he knows a Golovkin fight would be extraordinarily difficult for him. The two men are polar opposites of each other in many ways. Mayweather was a master defender, while Golovkin is a crushing puncher who may be the finest offensive machine in boxing since a prime Marvelous Marvin Hagler more than a quarter of a century ago.

Swallow that, all GGG haters, because it's the truth.