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

[SteveM]

Damn I am kind of overwhelmed by the number of biased people in one thread. GGG clearly won that but one thing is clear: black Americans still make up the majority of boxing fans in the U.S., and a significant percentage of them are extremely biased along racial lines. GGG won this fight clearly.

The first 50 posts or so were just 1 line posts by people coming on shouting robbery. Thing is, In 2 years I have never seen most of these posters before. They obviously don't know what a robbery is. Neither this fight nor the Ward fight was a robbery.
I don't agree that he clearly won. He won a very close competitive fight, and seeing how subjective judges score fights he could easily have seen a draw or a split for Jacobs too.
Regards black americans and bias. My take on it is that many black Americans still are, and still feel, racially oppressed. They see the system as against them and think that black fighters don't get a fair shake of the dice >>> this is ludicrous really when you look back at the history of the sport and see all the great American champs. It will not change so you can engage with the bias or ignore it.

[King_]

that was one soft knockdown. ''technically'' a kd but we all know it was more of an off balance thing.

it was a very close fight.

Hm. I think you should rewatch and mute the commentary...

If you rewatch the KD in slow-mo, you can clearly see Jacobs gets caught with two shots. It was a legit KD, he was a little off balance afterward but there's nothing to suggest he wasn't crashing to the canvas regardless after those two punches

[Elroy The Great]

Hm. I think you should rewatch and mute the commentary...

If you rewatch the KD in slow-mo, you can clearly see Jacobs gets caught with two shots. It was a legit KD, he was a little off balance afterward but there's nothing to suggest he wasn't crashing to the canvas regardless after those two punches

all i said was it was more of an off balance thing. def legit. never close it happening again.

[Ce1ska]

Canelo would break him down to the body and time him with a huge right hand and he will win by easy KO

Canelo can't cut off the ring and Jacobs isn't one of his typical small opponents.

[SteveM]

Typical case of one guy landing slightly more but many of which are grazing shots while missing many shots, while the other guy is making everything count and is the one doing real damage.

But boxing fans forget that it is scored by rounds. Boxers know that too. Trainers too. Jacobs couldn't impose his will on Golovkin and despite being told a dozen times by Rozier to win the fight round by round - he couldn't clearly win 7 rounds. You can argue that he won 7 rounds. But he didn't do that clearly and if you are going to take the belts you need to do that.

[King_]

all i said was it was more of an off balance thing. def legit. never close it happening again.

Fair enough, GGG did put some weight on him after the 2 punches.

But Golovkin briefly hurt Jacobs at the end of one of the later rounds, Jacobs was stumbling for a few seconds.

He obviously did more damage, even with landing 10-15 fewer power punches

[Elroy The Great]

Fair enough, GGG did put some weight on him after the 2 punches.

But Golovkin briefly hurt Jacobs at the end of one of the later rounds, Jacobs was stumbling for a few seconds.

He obviously did more damage, even with landing 10-15 fewer power punches

how would you have scored the fight minus the kd ?

[King_]

how would you have scored the fight minus the kd ?

I didn't keep track, but I think 7-5 is the best you could give Danny, IMO.

8-4 seems about right, but I'd have to re-watch and score.

[tommyg6]

I wouldn't say robbery or that I'm devastated by results but I had Jacobs winning

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

[Elroy The Great]

I didn't keep track, but I think 7-5 is the best you could give Danny, IMO.

8-4 seems about right, but I'd have to re-watch and score.

i had dj winning by 1 rd. not upset he lost. even w/o that kd. the better man won. they usually do.

especially when they land more punches, right compubox haters ?!?!?!?

they know who they are