Daniel Jacobs hires Soviet sparring partners to prepare for GGG

[HeroBando]

I thought I was being right, you guys don't know how good or bad Pirog was so there's no point in praising him, Jacobs was leading on scorecards before that KO

You haven't even seen the readily available, 5 round fight, you read about it on a boxing forum lol. Gtfo lame troll

[Kigali]

The same people that constantly berate Jacobs for getting stopped by Pirog.. brush off Manny's early KO losses.

Pirog will not be in that ring with GGG.
People act like this is a tag-team match.

Golovkin/Pirog vs Daniel Jacobs.

Jacobs doesn't have a tumor growing on his spine and he's not 23 y/o this time around people.

Golovkin better be working overtime on his defense,because what he's shown so far, ain't gonna' cut it.

GGG better hire Pernell Whittaker and several relatives of Willie Pep and do it in a hurry.

[g27region]

You haven't even seen the readily available, 5 round fight, you read about it on a boxing forum lol. Gtfo lame troll

I'm not trying to troll anybody, it was you who started talking to me, I'm just saying my opinion and I don't like getting involved in discussions, proving the point in the internet is ******, and the people on this site is one of the last things in this world I care about, I wouldn't even move my finger if your lives were depending on it.

Why you even argue with me if everything I've said was right?

I've said that Pirog achieved nothing remarkable in pros, so we never had the chance to know the real value of his potential, that is true

I've said that Jacobs was winning that fight, yes and that is also true, he was leading 39-37 on all three scorecards before that KO

Tell me, which one of these things is false?

The same people that constantly berate Jacobs for getting stopped by Pirog.. brush off Manny's early KO losses.

Pirog will not be in that ring with GGG.
People act like this is a tag-team match.

Golovkin/Pirog vs Daniel Jacobs.

Jacobs doesn't have a tumor growing on his spine and he's not 23 y/o this time around people.

Golovkin better be working overtime on his defense,because what he's shown so far, ain't gonna' cut it.

GGG better hire Pernell Whittaker and several relatives of Willie Pep and do it in a hurry.

Calm down, because the same people who says that Pirog KO doesn't mean anything since "it was a long time ago and he improved", they berate Lomachenko for losing a fight with Salido, ignoring the same arguments


You might say that Lomachenko is a bum for losing to Salido, but then you have to call Danny Jacobs "Pirog's son"

Or you might defend Jacobs for losing to Pirog because he's "improved from that moment", but then you have to admit that Lomachenko loss doesn't mean nothing because he's improved as well

All other options would be double standarts

[jmrf4435]

"soviet" lol

[Dr Rumack]

Never watched that fight, on Russian boxing forum I've heard that Danny Jacobs was dominanting Pirog until that KO happened

Pirog is still a nobody in pro boxing

The ultimate shitpost from a know-nothing casual.

[g27region]

The ultimate shitpost from a know-nothing casual.

I'm proud to be casual boxing fan, I don't have much time to spend on every fight in boxing just like I'm not interested in seeing rappers fight, matchups with one of the greatest boxer ever lived against UFC fighter with boxing rules, or 60 + y.o actor beating up fans in the ring.

I try to follow the fights that I consider relevant and interesting for me, that's it

And I'm still right, Danny Jacobs was winning this fight on scorecards

[bigjavi973]

You sound like Drago's manager

[bigjavi973]

Jacobs isn't 8/1 in the bookmakers . GGG is 1/8 on, there's a massive difference. All this propaganda and saying the right things is going to make me put some money on Jacobs.

The only fighter Ive seen trybto pressure ggg was lemule. But lemule got previously outboxed by alcine i think also lemule was the hardest puncher ggg has faced so thats why they boxed more

[bigjavi973]

Well that's pointless. GGG fights nothing like a typical eastern euro.

Of course not. Did everybody forget that whole mexican style bs?

[uppercut510]

I watched that fight back today too. Pirog was superb. Such a shame he got injured.

He really didn't right like the stereotypical Soviet school fighter at all though. Great head and upper body movement like you said, bent his legs and didn't stay tall, leaned at the waist, used a lot of hooks, feinted constantly, was very fluid, and fought at a high tempo.

Golovkin doesn't fight exactly like Pirog but he is just as unconventional as him, if you're taking the stereotype of the Eastern robot as your model. He also fights at a high tempo, stays low a lot of the time, and looks to score big with hooks in a way that the stereotype Soviet school fighter doesn't.

Golovkin might be a good bit more hittable than Pirog, but if the Lemieux fight is anything to go by he's nowhere near as reckless if he respects the opponent's power.

The bigger question is what has Jacob's learned about how to deal with pressure. He did ok at times against Pirog but he always looked very uncomfortable with the rabbit role. Got caught square on several occasions. He landed some nice shots but in general it was single shots. Rarely did he score a significant combination. That probably wouldn't be enough to beat Golovkin.

he was very uncomfortable in that fight, he seemed to be getting warmed up but he got caught. good post!!!