Comments Thread For: Jacobs Explains Missing IBF's Second-Day Weigh-In for GGG Fight

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NEW YORK Daniel Jacobs and his handlers had a weight plan in place prior to his fight Saturday night against Gennady Golovkin. They weren't about to disrupt that blueprint by participating in the IBF's second-day weigh-in Saturday morning. That essentially was Jacobs' explanation for skipping a second-day weigh-in that would've restricted how much weight he could gain following the official weigh-in Friday morning for their middleweight title fight.
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[SilverMiles]

Could have said at the negotiation table you didn't want to fight for the IBF title and there wouldn't have been a 2nd day weighin.

But im assuming also part of the plan was to control Golovkin's weight and to make sure he didn't rehydrate like he wanted to.

Wouldn't call it cheating (like some posters I know) but a cheap tactic that in the end didn't work.

[ChiCityExtractz]

Hes just a shyster.

[Robbie Barrett]

Could have said at the negotiation table you didn't want to fight for the IBF title and there wouldn't have been a 2nd day weighin.

But im assuming also part of the plan was to control Golovkin's weight and to make sure he didn't rehydrate like he wanted to.

Wouldn't call it cheating (like some posters I know) but a cheap tactic that in the end didn't work.

Yes there would have. Golovkin would have still needed to weigh-in or be stripped.

[Simurgh]

that tactics did help him to survive but not to win the fight. in the rematch this huge advantage is gone so the fight hardly goes all 12.

[martinringer]

screw the worthless IBF toilet paper title anyway

Jacobs basically said to the IBF to bend over and let Jacobs take over and Jake gave the IBF a bone of his own.

[Robbie Barrett]

that tactics did help him to survive but not to win the fight. in the rematch this huge advantage is gone so the fight hardly goes all 12.

How would it be gone?

[Johnny_Roa]

Triple bum fans are hilarious.

[Simurgh]

How would it be gone?

I believe GGG's side would be much smarter in the negotiation or they would give up the IBF belt.

I don't see the remach happening before Canelo and Sanders fights, so by that time Gennady will have all the belts anyway. Rematch might even happen at 168.. anyway, the discrepancy in the weight wont be as huge as it was in this fight.

[Robbie Barrett]

Triple bum fans are hilarious.

They went from hyping him as an ATG to complaining he struggled because of 6lbs weight disadvantage. These are the same people that **** on Mayweather, that guy fought people with a 15+ lb disadvantage.