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

[AneesMoha]

So almost every sports journo and the judges were on the take? Boxingscene, The Gaurdian, Bad left hook, The Bleacher report, Espn, LA Times all had Golovkin winning a close decsion. CBS and The Telegraph had it as a Draw. USA Today had it 115-113 to Jacobs and Bloody Elbow had it 114-113 Jacobs...

[soul_survivor]

GGG won clearly via 7-5, I think 2 of those scorecards were spot on. Jacobs deserves a lot of respect for actually punching with GGG at times and winning rounds...but that's all he did. He won rounds. He did not win the fight. GGG at timesl ooked too relaxed and I think he was pretty comfortable after having won the majority of the first 7 rounds (had him winning 5-2).

Solid effort by Jacobs but nothing more, hardly GGGs toughest fight considering Brook caused more damage and Lem seemed to hit harder. But Jacobs has a solid chin.

[Bronx2245]

Good fight! Jacobs didn't put enough downstairs in the early rounds! He was the fresher fighter in the championship rounds, but he didn't do enough early, and the early KD won the fight for GGG! I am convinced that Lara would school GGG! Jacobs did well in the southpaw stance, but he's not as quick as Lara! GGG vs. Lara! Make it happen!

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Most say Jacobs won. You're outnumbered bubba. Sorry, them's the breaks. The boxing people have spoken.

Hopefully we get Canelo/GGG now, then Jacobs/GGG rematch.... since GGG loses belts to Canelo no doubt.

I also had the impression that Jacobs won...

... But now I saw the CompuBox punch stats:


Punch Stats
PUNCHES GOLOVKIN JACOBS
Landed 231 175
Thrown 615 541
Percent 38% 32%
-- Courtesy of CompuBox

Yes I see that now. Have to watch it again I guess. Either way, still very impressed with Jacobs effort.

[whatismyname]

what was the punch stat? seemed like Jacobs outlanded GGG with a good margin

[whatismyname]

Quote:
Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Most say Jacobs won. You're outnumbered bubba. Sorry, them's the breaks. The boxing people have spoken.

Hopefully we get Canelo/GGG now, then Jacobs/GGG rematch.... since GGG loses belts to Canelo no doubt.



Yes I see that now. Have to watch it again I guess. Either way, still very impressed with Jacobs effort.

that is mind blowing!

[MDPopescu]

One of THE great misinterpretations of boxing is that you cannot out-box someone on the front foot. Out-boxing seems to be something that can only be done on the backfoot.

Danny's strategy was to survive and flurry. Golovkin's strategy was to control the fight. Whilst he was below-par, he still controlled the fight. His defence was on point - and he didn't even have to run or circle the ring to do it.

Right... And Jacobs also moved very well and switched -- he left the impression that he strategically controlled the fight... GGG's jab was ineffective while Jacobs was in southpaw stance... GGG looked clueless at times -- which didn't happen since he's fighting in the U.S.

[MDPopescu]

what was the punch stat? seemed like Jacobs outlanded GGG with a good margin

Punch Stats
PUNCHES
Landed GOLOVKIN 231 JACOBS 175
Thrown GOLOVKIN 615 JACOBS 541
Percent GOLOVKIN 38% JACOBS 32%
-- Courtesy of CompuBox

(Note: Gonzalez outlanded the Thay with about 200 punches)...

[angkag]

Watched the fight, thought Jacobs did fantastically well, and at the end felt there were no losers. Jacobs just fell short though, GGG edged it.

So was really surprised to see the word 'robbery' afterwards. huh ? I think the only way you can read it that way is to be biased one way or another. If you give credit for what Jacobs did and no credit for what Golovkin did, then sure, Jacobs won easily (and could also look at it the other way of course, but thats equally biased).

But Golovkin edged the fight on the criteria used to score boxing based on what they both did in there.

Hopefully it makes Saunders think he can go that extra inch and take Golovkin and we get to see that fight too.

[MDPopescu]

Quote:
Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Most say Jacobs won. You're outnumbered bubba. Sorry, them's the breaks. The boxing people have spoken.

Hopefully we get Canelo/GGG now, then Jacobs/GGG rematch.... since GGG loses belts to Canelo no doubt.



Yes I see that now. Have to watch it again I guess. Either way, still very impressed with Jacobs effort.

I was also deeply impressed by Jacobs... (people just don't know how fighting cancer affects one's life...)