Comments Thread For: Jacobs Faces $1M Penalty, 3 Pounds Overweight At 2nd Weigh-In

[kushking]

Sound outraged in the last post or at least pissed off. I take your answer as no you didn't post that Jacobs should have made the second day weigh-in for Golovkin.
These catch weights and weight restrictions are screwing up boxing IMO. For example I think Cotto once announced that he would only defend his title at a catchweight. Now that is preposterous. The rules should be set by the Commissions and superceed all contracts. If a fighter didn't make weight they were given time to sweat it off if they didn't the champion could cancelled the fight. If it went ahead the title could not change hands. There was also a portion of the failed fighters purse that went to the commission and the other fighter. Not sure if that's exactly right because these weight restrictions, catchweights etc have muddied everything up.

Heres the thing though, catchweights are part of the rules & their laid out clear as day. They allow fighters to fight that wouldn't otherwise ever fight & that's sometimes good, sometimes bad. But like everything in boxing, whatever rules are set out it will always be 1 more part of gamesmanship fighters will use to advantage. If jacobs faced trout at full 160 don't you see its just as much gamesmanship on jacobs part as it would've been for trout at a cw. Boxing is inherently unfair

[Joe Beamish]

Interesting play by Jacobs, amping up the size advantage. A premeditated game plan. He woudln't have been able to sign this fight without the rehydration clause in the contract, so he agreed to it. He knows he's got his guaranteed money coming anyway -- what's a million dollars? It will be worth it if he pulls the victory.

Which he won't. 1) He can't knock out Canelo. 2) This will go to the cards. 3) He just gave the judges extra reason to rule against him at every opportunity. He will lose every close round, absolutely guaranteed.

Canelo is 4 rounds ahead right now. Good luck with that.

[fernandtg]

No he did not cheat. The IBF scratched that morning after weigh in because it's a unification bout in which that rule does not apply. Therefore, this wasn't sanctioned by them.

This was nothing more than a futile, underhanded trick and display of gamesmanship by Oscar De La Hoya; In order to give Canelo that extra edge and advantage over Jacobs, in the hopes of weakening him in the fight.

Sarcasm, my man....

[kidbazooka]

I hope jacobs swells up to 185. ***** canelo and oscars little game

I hope he does too so when canelo ****s him up the haters won’t be able to hate

[Shadoww702]

Why should there have been a rehydration clause anyway? Canelo and Jacobs are both middleweights.

It was a bit dirty in the Golovkin situation because Golovkin had to stay within the 10lb rehydration limit to keep the IBF belt, but in this case there is no sanctioning body enforcing the rule (to my knowledge), so Jacobs should be allowed to rehydrate to whatever he likes.

I like Canelo as a fighter but don't like the preferential treatment he gets.

Typically it's done by the IBF to keep both guys honest but now they have a rule which you might as well call the "Jacobs Rule" for this. It was AGREED upon both would be men and honor it but Jacobs again tries shady sht.

[MC Hammer]

Jacobs’ purse is just above eight figures, despite that it’s listed as $2.5 million on his Nevada State Athletic Commission contract.

Yet y'all think these PBC guys are getting 1 mil a fight

[Motofan]

Never planned on making it. Sad trying to win by coming in a weight class higher. GGG all over again.

[whoseyourdaddy]

Nobody paid 1 million to have more weight than your rival

This is pure history

Well Floyd paid Marquez 840k in their fight.

[TonyGe]

Jacobs looking to cheat his way to victory

He's not cheating he's following the contract he signed. If you don't make weight second day you pay a penalty. He's paying the penalty which is provided for in the contract. He made the weight 160 that is stipulated by the NSAC and the boxing commissions.

[B Phontain]

This is one weight miss I'm not totally mad at. Fucc that 1m win the fight