Comments Thread For: Golovkin Drops, Decisions Jacobs in Toughest Career Fight

[TheUptownKid]

then you're a ****in ******. GGG won

Good come back sir. Your commentary is always top notch.

[bojangles1987]

Is it safe on NSB yet?

That was a good fight. Jacobs had a good plan and good discipline and it carried him far. Dude gave GGG a run for his money. I thought it was a fairly clear squeaker for Golovkin though. At worst he won 6 rounds and has the KD to seal it.

[Boxing Goat]

We knew before the fight that Jacobs was faster, longer and significantly bigger than Golovkin. The faulty assumption that most people had was that Jacobs didn't have the fortitude and the chin to withstand GGG. I never thought that way and I said so in many posts on NSB.

I agree that a seek and destroy fighter will age much quicker than a safety first fighter and I think Golovkin has been declining a little in his last few fights but Danny Jacobs at his best would likely always be a challenging match for Golovkin even if GGG was prime. The size disparity between the two also played a factor but I think we're not giving Jacobs enough credit.

Golovkin won the fight but Jacobs was smart with the way he tried to slow the pace down and stifle GGG's attack. He kept changing up his tactics so that Golovkin couldn't get a consistent rhythm going. But GGG was really accurate with his jab and that seemed to be something that Jacobs couldn't avoid for much of the fight. I was surprised by that,,,and yet I wasn't surprised by that. That was one of my biggest question marks before the fight.....Could Golovkin be effective with the jab like he was in the Lemieux fight. Well, he wasn't AS effective but he was still very effective which just goes to show how good of a jab he has. To be able to out jab the taller, longer, faster man is impressive.

I wouldn't be too hard on Jacobs for his comments after the fight. Even though he didn't win, he still felt like he got the moral victory just by surviving the full 12 rounds, putting on a respectable showing and not getting caught with too many big punches. He seemed pretty happy despite walking away with the loss. I think he's a pretty good dude normally, it's just the situation got him all fired up.

Fair points, Good post

[ADP02]

i think he respected danny's power valot, that's why he didn't aim his body, danny would caught his face 1st before he do that

Yes, I agree,.....I stated that he respected Jacob's punches a lot .... Jacobs did the same

but when he did throw one, GGG missed a lot of his punches. Reason was that he was head hunting too much. If he aimed lower (body), he would have caught Jacob's more often then on some of those he could have followed up with a head shot.

That would have been a much more effective game plan. If you noticed, Jacobs ducked down or kept on moving his head just enough for GGG to miss his shots. If GGG mixed his punches better, Jacobs would have had a harder time picking up (reading)where GGG was going to throw his next shot at (head/body).




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[Boxing Goat]

Blacks don't make up the majority of anything in America and never have other than being the majority of the
labor force for 400 years. And if blacks are so biased why are you the only person on the forum who is saying that GGG won the fight clearly? Do you think everyone on the forum is black but you? The fact that you think black Americans are the majority of fight fans and that blacks are biased are biases in and of themselves.

I'm sorry I had to lol @ that one

[vaynardevil]

Yes, I agree,.....I stated that he respected Jacob's punches a lot .... Jacobs did the same

but when he did throw one, GGG missed a lot of his punches. Reason was that he was head hunting too much. If he aimed lower (body), he would have caught Jacob's more often then on some of those he could have followed up with a head shot.

That would have been a much more effective game plan. If you noticed, Jacobs ducked down or kept on moving his head just enough for GGG to miss his shots. If GGG mixed his punches better, Jacobs would have had a harder time picking up (reading)where GGG was going to throw his next shot at (head/body).




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that's why my theory about why he didn't aim jacobs's body is because by the time he aim the body, it'll open his face that could give jacobs opportunity to counter punch quickly, im not sure thou, maybe he realized jacobs is too fast for him idk
i want to know expert analysis or explanation from both sides

[Combat Talk Radio]

Neither fighter did anything those first two rounds. And they didn't all go to GGG on all three cards.

Jacobs' jab was there in 2 of the three rounds. There's no way G won more than one of them.

[coltsforlife]

could have went either way , no robbery but i had jacobs winning by 1 or 2 points but i am not mad at decision

[Someone88]

Wow! That was an excellent fight.It was very close. Jacobs could have won, great win for Golovkin!

[Slick_Rick]

Are people actually calling robbery?

It was a close fight and Jacobs did better then people were expecting and are jumping that claiming GGG was gifted.

You could argue Jacobs probably won 6 rounds but GGG had the KD, which was decisive for me. Very close fight but absolute no robbery. There should be a rematch but let GGG fight Canelo first.