Comments Thread For: Jacobs: IBF 2nd-Day Weigh-In No Problem; GGG Situation Different

[factsarenice]

Simply put, the rewards greatly outmatched the risk. A win, while hydrated and not obtaining the IBF title, would almost guarantee him a fight Vs canelo, which would've came with a huge payday. Belts don't always means bigger and higher fights and paydays.

Well said.

[FairPlay]

What a bunch of lame excuses. He saw his chance, decided to game the system and give up the IBF belt before the fight for a chance to use superior mass to get the win. That didn't work out, so now he tries to downplay his actions, while giving contradictory claims: "yeah, I could have made the weight no problem, I just like to sleep late", but at the same time he claims that it was the plan form the start to weigh more than 170. I lost a little bit of respect for Jacobs after he refused the second day weigh in, but lost a lot more respect for him after his lame excuses. He not only refused the IBF weigh in, he also refused to be weighed by the HBO, so nobody can really know how heavy he was. Maybe some people really make it sound as if he was a heavyweight, but if Jacobs carries on with this types of excuses, in couple of months' time he will claim that he entered the fight as a bantamweight.

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

I couldn't care less how much Jacobs weighed on fight night.
All that matters to me is that he made weight at the official weigh-in
held the previous day. Having two weigh-ins are bullshat.
If you feel like your opponent is too big then maybe it's YOU that is
too small for the division. Or maybe something else of yours is small.

Boxing used to be a man's sport. Now the guy who is supposed to
be the baddest man does nothing but whine about his opponents'
gloves, weight, and their imagined special treatment.
Apparently, "big drama show" means 'soap opera' in Kazakhstan.

[FairPlay]

Second day weigh in exists for a reason. For me, there is nothing "manly" about beating someone when you have a sizeable weight advantage. Also, proving your "manliness" by beating someone?
And in spite of all that Jacobs didn't beat Golovkin. And he got laid on his butt in the process of losing the fight. Golovkin has no needs to make up excuses for the Jacobs fight. He won. It is Jacobs who is making excuses.
And Canelo's special tretment is "imagined"? If you say so.

[sidefx996]

I like Danny and he has such a great comeback story, but I hope he does bigger and better things with his career because I'm kinda tired of hearing him constantly defining his career by the fact that he DIDN'T get knocked out by GGG. The way he laughs about the story of his fight-night weight growing as time goes by so does his opinion of how well he did in the fight with GGG. You did well. You lost. Stop ****ing patting yourself on the back about it.

[sidefx996]

I couldn't care less how much Jacobs weighed on fight night.
All that matters to me is that he made weight at the official weigh-in
held the previous day. Having two weigh-ins are bullshat.
If you feel like your opponent is too big then maybe it's YOU that is
too small for the division. Or maybe something else of yours is small.

Boxing used to be a man's sport. Now the guy who is supposed to
be the baddest man does nothing but whine about his opponents'
gloves, weight, and their imagined special treatment.
Apparently, "big drama show" means 'soap opera' in Kazakhstan.

But there are rules. Those are the rules. You're entitled to your opinion and I feel you have a point. However he broke the rules and would not have gotten that strap had he won the fight. Hell I'd have done the same thing. It'd be more important to me to take every advantage I could and win the fight in front of everyone. The belt would've meant less to me than winning and all the fruit that would come with that.

I personally feel the weigh-ins should be night-of, right before the fight. What the hell is the point of weighing in at 160 the day before if you're over 180 on fight night? How the hell are you a middleweight at that point?

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

But there are rules. Those are the rules. You're entitled to your opinion and I feel you have a point. However he broke the rules and would not have gotten that strap had he won the fight. Hell I'd have done the same thing. It'd be more important to me to take every advantage I could and win the fight in front of everyone. The belt would've meant less to me than winning and all the fruit that would come with that.

I personally feel the weigh-ins should be night-of, right before the fight. What the hell is the point of weighing in at 160 the day before if you're over 180 on fight night? How the hell are you a middleweight at that point?

Well, he did break the IBF rule, but they are the only ones
who have such a rule.
I just believe that after the weigh-in a fighter should be
free to eat and hydrate as he pleases, unless it involves
tainted meat or other banned substances/methods.
The issue should be when to have one official weight-in,
not how many times to weigh the fighters before the fight.
Should it be the day before, or the day of?
Doctors say it should be the day before for safety reasons.

[TonyGe]

I couldn't care less how much Jacobs weighed on fight night.
All that matters to me is that he made weight at the official weigh-in
held the previous day. Having two weigh-ins are bullshat.
If you feel like your opponent is too big then maybe it's YOU that is
too small for the division. Or maybe something else of yours is small.

Boxing used to be a man's sport. Now the guy who is supposed to
be the baddest man does nothing but whine about his opponents'
gloves, weight, and their imagined special treatment.
Apparently, "big drama show" means 'soap opera' in Kazakhstan.

I have to point out that Gennady didn't complain.

[trueblood]

u were a cruiserweight

And a CHEATER......

Thats the story. The END

[trueblood]

Play by the rules??? No you did not? How could you be that ****** tp say I play by the rules & then you don't.