Comments Thread For: Daniel Jacobs: People Saying I'm Scared of Golovkin Ticked Me Off

[greglory]

The evidence for Jacobs not wanting this fight was the route he took to get here. The only chance he has to win this bout is to land a hard right and end it like he did Quillen. Everyone knows this and so does GGG. Not gonna happen this time, Jacobs.

Dumb. You're what's wrong with the Internet. Obtuse and illogical reasoning.

[greglory]

Wow, I can see that most of you have never negotiated anything. Probably didn't know you could negotiate your hourly wage lol. You just took that $15 and hour and said...I'm not scared! LOL GTFOH. I read these comments and my faith in humanity continues to crumble.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

..because he was.

Why is it so hard to believe that a guy that just fought a WW.....and stayed in the amateurs until he was dragged-away kicking and scream...would delay a fight?

This is GGG's Waterloo.

Are you serious? Do you really not know why he turned pro later than some if do you just like talking out of your azz?

Yes, a fair payday. Before the fight was mandated Loeffler said he thinks the fight will be bigger than Lemieux-GGG. After the fight was made they released the tickets and they're double the price o GGG's most expensive tickets (Lemieux-GGG). So K2 was going to double their profits but pay Jacobs only 200k more than Lemieux? Besides Canelo, who else is GGG selling $1000 tickets against? Jacobs is a strong B-side and the ticket prices prove it.

Ever think maybe the tickets are more expensive because they had to pay Jacobs more?

Of course not.

Jacobs hadn't sold out one fight. All ticket prices reflect is they need a way to make sure they cover the extra money Jacobs wanted.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Are you serious? Do you really not know why he turned pro later than some if do you just like talking out of your azz?



Ever think maybe the tickets are more expensive because they had to pay Jacobs more?

Of course not.

Jacobs hadn't sold out one fight. All ticket prices reflect is they need a way to make sure they cover the extra money Jacobs wanted.

Of course that's why they're more expensive but if they didn't think they could sell $1000 tickets they wouldn't have given Jacobs what they gave him. Imma ask you what I've asked other posters, besides Canelo, who else is GGG gonna sell $1000 tickets for? BJS? So when the fight sells out at that price point you still won't admit Jacobs was worth what he got? This is simple math. GGG is making more than he's ever made. Jacobs is making more than he's ever made. This will be GGG's highest gate. This isn't complicated

[JayCho]

Wow, I can see that most of you have never negotiated anything. Probably didn't know you could negotiate your hourly wage lol. You just took that $15 and hour and said...I'm not scared! LOL GTFOH. I read these comments and my faith in humanity continues to crumble.

Hit the nail on the head!

[mathed]

Or maybe, stick with me here cuz this might sound crazy, HE'S TRYING TO PROMOTE THE FIGHT!!!! Sounds crazy huh?

Nah, he pretty much admitted in an article like yesterday I think, that he spends a great deal of time reading what people write about him. I'm sure he comes on here more than a few times a week to read what "the fans" are saying.

[mathed]

Hell......ya'll ate all the AIDS infested monkeys in the ******pines.


Dogs....monkeys....Tourist d*cks..

3 favorite Pinoy delicacies.

You seem to have a problem with Filipinos. Saying some pretty racist stuff.

Not cool.

[Sledgeweather17]

Mayweather didn't fight Pacquiao until he was old, so all the doubters were right about Mayweather. They said he would either duck Pacquiao completely, or wait until he got old to fight him. They were absolutely right about Floyd. Like Floyd even admitted later on, he fights for business, "not legacy," and that's why he ducked Pacquiao until Pacman got old.

As for Ward, he only just came back after the long layoff with the promotional issues, and already he's talking about retiring after facing the first and only A-level opponent of his entire career. So yeah some people doubted he would face Kovalev at all, and he proved them wrong about that, but otherwise the doubters seem to have basically been correct about Ward, too. Retirement? You jab and grab your way to a hometown decision, basically steal a man's belts, then talk retirement? Really?

As for Jacobs, Jacobs himself said in an interview two years ago he wasn't ready for GGG yet. It's good he was honest but when he then even came out this year with an interview about waiting to fight GGG until 2017, and wanting to "build his brand" first, the writing was on the wall. It's wack for Jacobs to wonder why people thought he was scared of GGG when so many fighters have ducked GGG and his interviews sounded the same as theirs did before they all ducked him. Were we wrong for assuming the worst again?

Jacobs even talked about how getting a 3 mil check to fight GGG still might not be enough, because he could just fight "two Quillins" and make that much instead, so why fight GGG, who he called the greatest of his generation I believe, once, when you can fight Quillin twice for the same money?

I mean hell, when the biggest accomplishment of your career is beating Quillin, because Quillin is supposed to be really dangerous, but then you suggest in an interview that fighting Quillin TWICE would be less risky than fighting GGG just ONCE, that is another red flag that makes it seem to fans like you might be ducking. That's all. How is that an unreasonable conclusion? I mean Jacobs got 1.5 mil to fight Quillin, couldn't even sell out their hometown venue, but then 3 mil wouldn't be enough to fight GGG? When he hinted at that in that interview he did, of COURSE it seemed like he was trying to duck.

And when they called out the December date because Jacobs said he needed an extra special long camp to fight GGG, while GGG was fine to fight Jacobs on a normal camp, that was yet another sign that Jacobs was delaying or looking to avoid the fight. So really how can Jacobs blame us for noticing those worrisome trends at the time?

And how can you blame people for doubting Floyd about Pacquiao, or doubting Ward, or any of these guys, like Gary Russell Jr. and Deontay Wilder when they were fighting TBDs, or doubting Al Haymon himself, when those doubters have basically been proven right about every single one of these guys they doubted on about 90% of the issues they doubted them about?

So you blame Floyd even though Pacquiao's coach himself admitted that it was their fault that the fight didn't get made earlier?

And Lmao at Floyd waiting for someone who is two years younger than him to get old. This has just gotta be the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

I bet if Floyd comes out of retirement to rematch Pac, you'll claim that he was waiting for Pac to get even older, despite Floyd being an older, inactive fighter.

[Reloaded]

This is why when fighters seem scared to fight the best, it pays off to tell them that's what it looks like, so they have that knowledge with them when deciding whether to prove they aren't scared to fight the best, or if they still want to keep on ducking the best even with everyone saying that. But at least people telling them that's what it looks like to the outside can give them the knowledge to decide they want to make the fight the fans want, and prove they'll fight the best.

Good for Jacobs. Respect for making the fight. Took his time though.

He comes across as a genuine classy guy, he needs to remember that the people talking the worst of him are very immature teenagers, its easy to get caught up in the words because that is all he can see.

If he were standing in front of these people and seen some pimple laden kid hat on backwards with a head wobble or a nerdy looking tool thats never seen the light of day he would get a laugh out of the insults, he would bust a gut the moment he laid eyes them.

Guys like Jacobs use the insults to motivate themselves he just needs to remind himself sometimes that he is the successful WC boxer they are the nobody's behind a keyboard .

Good luck Danny, come into the fight the best you can be and just fight the fight, win lose or draw be true to yourself and give it all you got .

[Combat Talk Radio]

Mayweather didn't fight Pacquiao until he was old, so all the doubters were right about Mayweather. They said he would either duck Pacquiao completely, or wait until he got old to fight him. They were absolutely right about Floyd. Like Floyd even admitted later on, he fights for business, "not legacy," and that's why he ducked Pacquiao until Pacman got old.

Serious question.

Did Ellerbe skip Vaseline with you? Because that's a lot you just pulled out of your ass en route to your butthurtness.

There's no way you're seriously using age as an excuse when Floyd is two years older than Manny.