Comments Thread For: Jacobs: Heading To HBO Was Best Thing I Could Do For Career

[daggum]

yes its better for your career since pbc has no money. def better to get paid in money as opposed to i owe yous

[maguirre]

What would be his other choices? It's becoming harder and harder to make top fighters fight each other in the PBC camp. Garcia is fighting Rios, instead of Porter, who in turn is facing Granados. Lara is fighting Gausha, instead of Andrade or Charlo. Thurman hasn't surfaced yet as if he's waiting for Spence to take another fight before he does.

Charlo 2 is available for Jacobs. Yet for some inexplicable reason that fight is not considered a big fight.

[Scipio2009]

I know what you mean but Oscar has the final say so not HBO or Canelo.

HBO could simply say "we love Canelo, but the only fight that's there that'd make business sense for everyone is to fight Daniel Jacobs".

Alvarez is a budding star, but he's not a "fight anyone and still do monster business" type of star just yet.

Alvarez has Golovkin, Saunders (play up the unification bit to have folks care), and maybe Lemieux as viable ppv fights ahead of Jacobs.

If Eddie Hearn does his job, you could literally have Jacobs as the sole viable ppv option before the end of the year.

[BigStomps]

HBO could simply say "we love Canelo, but the only fight that's there that'd make business sense for everyone is to fight Daniel Jacobs".

Alvarez is a budding star, but he's not a "fight anyone and still do monster business" type of star just yet.

Alvarez has Golovkin, Saunders (play up the unification bit to have folks care), and maybe Lemieux as viable ppv fights ahead of Jacobs.

If Eddie Hearn does his job, you could literally have Jacobs as the sole viable ppv option before the end of the year.

I'll have to disagree with you on that. Canelo can pretty much fight anyone and HBO would pretty much get huge ratings. I'm not saying they necessarily have to go ppv everytime but if they go regular HBO I guarantee they get huge ratings.
Look how long Oscar made Triple g wait. I'm sure HBO would of loved to have Canelo fight Triple g right after the Cotto fight but that wasn't the case. I'm not saying it won't happen. I hope you're right cause I would love to see Canelo fight Jacobs if he wins the rematch with Triple g but IDK if Oscar would let that happen without him getting something in return.
Same thing with Linares. He's not gonna let mikey Garcia anywhere near Linares without him getting something in return. So IDK...

[Scipio2009]

I'll have to disagree with you on that. Canelo can pretty much fight anyone and HBO would pretty much get huge ratings. I'm not saying they necessarily have to go ppv everytime but if they go regular HBO I guarantee they get huge ratings.
Look how long Oscar made Triple g wait. I'm sure HBO would of loved to have Canelo fight Triple g right after the Cotto fight but that wasn't the case. I'm not saying it won't happen. I hope you're right cause I would love to see Canelo fight Jacobs if he wins the rematch with Triple g but IDK if Oscar would let that happen without him getting something in return.
Same thing with Linares. He's not gonna let mikey Garcia anywhere near Linares without him getting something in return. So IDK...

Linares will give up the WBC belt, and still stay in TV purgatory, as I doubt that HBO's low interest in him moves anywhere without the specter of the Mikey Garcia fight.

Alvarez is on the cusp of never being able to, money wise, ever fight on regular HBO again; his last first-run fight on HBO saw him getting something like $3m for the US rights.

If the plan really is to have Alvarez fight solely on the May and September PPV dates going forward, the calculus changes.

[BigStomps]

Linares will give up the WBC belt, and still stay in TV purgatory, as I doubt that HBO's low interest in him moves anywhere without the specter of the Mikey Garcia fight.

Alvarez is on the cusp of never being able to, money wise, ever fight on regular HBO again; his last first-run fight on HBO saw him getting something like $3m for the US rights.

If the plan really is to have Alvarez fight solely on the May and September PPV dates going forward, the calculus changes.

Well hope your right. Guess we just gotta wait and see what happens

[landotter]

Jacobs is motivated to get his career in high gear. Feel bad for Luis Arias. Gonna be a long night for him.


Or a quick one.

[filup79]

Yeah. And the same way golden boy has been trying to get GR Jr for JoJo Diaz.
Both Khan and Chavez are both way more marketable than Jacobs.
So it'll be hard to get Oscar to agree to Canelo-Jacobs without him getting something in return.
Make sense??

What exactly did he get in return for those two fights I'm curious?

[Ray*]

If he wants the Canelo payday, he needs to start eliminating the opposition. I know it takes two to tango but if he can get the guys that canelo wants to fight first then Canelo would have nowhere to turn.

[Steven Mccowan]

Danny Jacobs should fight Lemieux or Charlo

yeah i would like see lemieux vs jacobs. And maybe charlo too after he fight a non cripple at mw and shows he can truly compete there