Comments Thread For: Road to Jacobs/Derevyanchenko Will Debut on HBO, Oct. 13

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HBO Boxing presents "Road to Jacobs/Derevyanchenko," an invigorating special examining the highly anticipated 160-pound title showdown between Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko set for Saturday, Oct. 27 at Hulu Theater from Madison Square Garden in New York. The encounter will be televised live on HBO(r).
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[Cigar]

Intriguing fight but 24/7?? Peter Nelson is a joke.

[Mammoth]

Intriguing fight but 24/7?? Peter Nelson is a joke.

I wonder if they have left over money in their boxing budget to burn

[Squ□redCircle34]

Should’ve used that for the SuperFly fighters, would love to see how **** make SSR punch so hard and also how Estrada once survived a shoot out as a bystander!

Wouldn’t mind seeing Chocolatito’s training regimens on how he has that monster stamina,
The subtitles wouldn’t bother me one bit!

Shame

[Bronx2245]

July 13, 2018:

Some chatter has touched on the fact that this event is made a bit curious since Jacobs and Derevyanchenko are trained by the same man, Andre Rozier. That sticky situation will be smoothed out by the decision made by Rozier to stay in the corner of his guy Jacobs, and have Gary Stark Sr., his tutorial partner, corner the Russian Derevyanchenko in camp and on fight night. Another talking point, moreso in the deep insider realm, has to do with the fact that Keith Connolly, a New York-based finance guy, advises both Jacobs and Derevyanchenko.

We reached out to Connolly to get a better sense if that set-up made life more difficult for him...

There’s been some controversy about them fighting each other but this is too good an opportunity for each man, and they’re fighting for a title, for them to pass up.” Connolly said he explicitly asked each if he’d like to pass, if they’d like him to steer away from this intra-familial scrum. No, both told him. We are ready to rumble; they each stated...

Connolly said hammering out particulars for the fight, and that mainly means purse numbers, was made less complicated by the fact that Jacobs’ HBO deal has a mandated purse price. So that meant Connolly needed to find a sweet spot for the Russian, financially, and that occurred. The adviser laid out Plans B and C to both boxers, other potential options at 160, in case they didn’t want to go this route...

In my view, the sport is a small fraternity, so occasionally situations will see “teammates” facing off, or promoters putting together fights that feature two people under their umbrella. Ideally one wants to see fewer rather than more of these deals probably because no one wants even the appearance of conflicts...

https://www.******.com/539456-despit...moves-forward/

[pillowfists98]

Nice, this is one of the best match-ups of the year and deserves a lot of attention.

[Shadoww702]

Dont know why but my $$$$ is on Sergiy. Just have a gut feeling.

[sammybee]

they have each others number.

[MasterPlan]

they have each others number.

Literally, as they train together.

[sammybee]

Literally, as they train together.

exactly... I expect a close decision winner