Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Coach Does Not View Jacobs as Chinny, No Free Shots

[steeve steel]

It will be a little different actually because Jacobs has a 3 inch longer reach than Lemieux and GGG. GGG will have to get inside more to have success. Style wise this match-up is all wrong for GGG in many ways. But, I still pick GGG because he's the best or second best fighter in the world, who has the talent to overcome even the most difficult styles.

But don't get it twisted, having a speed disadvantage AND and a reach disadvantage AND a height disadvantage ALL against someone who can use those advantages to deliver devastating POWER COMBINATIONS on your way inside is an extremely tricky situation to be in. What advantage are you supposed to use to win the fight when your opponent is taller faster longer and the only thing preventing him from being more powerful too is that you are the most powerful, otherwise he has enough power to even put power on his list of advantages against almost anyone else?

This is a guy with height, length, speed, and power ALL at the elite levels of the division, and his big chin deficiency is that he's only been knocked down 3 times his whole career, twice when he had cancer and his mother had just passed away, and once rushing in after he'd hurt his opponent, and he's NEVER been kept on the floor for more than five seconds except when the ref held him down.

So this is a good match-up. I still think Jacobs will get hurt by GGG the first time GGG lands clean, because GGG is that good, and Jacobs has an average chin not a good one, that much is true. GGG has the footwork, timing, angles, combinations, power, and chin to beat all the best guys around his division so long as he's in his prime. But Jacobs has elite athletic tools in every category, so this is an excellent challenge for GGG.

I hear what you're saying... Some of it, if not most, seems logical. And yet! I think Jacobs will come in very fearfull,... on the back foot, and that will weaken his strongest assets. Specially once he feels the power. Now i,m not saying jabobs doesn't have a chance. This is boxing and specially at this level, anything can happen. But most underestimate GGG's boxing skills, the subtle things he does. His jab, cutting the ring, ring generalship, his will, his power, his intelligence. I just think Jacobs in the end will be overwelmed by all of this. As most have been.

[steeve steel]

How can you "jab jab jab" someone that's 2 inches taller than you and has a 3 inches reach advantage?

Don't know if i should answer this. Don't want to be disrecpecful or anything but jabbing isn't all about reach. Anyways... for what it's worth, just ask Martin Murray.... who has exact same specs as Jacobs for reach.
(Now don't go saying i'm comparing Martin to Daniel... we're talking reach/jab.)

[_Maxi]

Don't know if i should answer this. Don't want to be disrecpecful or anything but jabbing isn't all about reach. Anyways... for what it's worth, just ask Martin Murray.... who has exact same specs as Jacobs for reach.
(Now don't go saying i'm comparing Martin to Daniel... we're talking reach/jab.)

I wouldn't compare Jacobs to Murray.. I think Jacobs is better in many ways except his chin.