Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
By Keith Idec - NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs didn’t do quite enough to beat Gennady Golovkin, but by finishing 12 rounds Saturday night and winning rounds he accomplished more than most fans and media expected. Ultimately, though, the heavily favored Golovkin landed the harder shots during their figh...
Golovkin vs. Jacobs Scorecard Live BoxingScene - Championship Boxing returns to “The World’s Most Famous Arena” on Saturday, March 18th with a must-see match-up between the two best Middleweights in the world! Unified Middleweight Champion GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN returns to “The Mecca of Boxing” to defend his titles (WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO) against WBA Middleweight Champion and Mandatory Challenger DANIEL "THE MIRACLE MAN" JACOBS. Photos by Tom Hogan/Hogan Photos.
Gennady Golovkin's 10.9 jabs landed #1 among CompuBox Categorical Leaders & double middle avg. He landed 34.8% of his jabs - #1 on CompuBox Cat. Leaders list & 14.2% higher than middle average. His 15.1 plus/minus rating #3; 27.5 punches landed per round #3 & 10.7 more than middleweight average; One of only two fighters to land 40% or more of his total punches.
Gennady Golovkin expects Daniel Jacobs to be the toughest opponent of his career on Saturday and the middleweight king said the prospect of breaking Bernard Hopkins' defence record will not be on his mind at Madison Square Garden.
If you wonder how Gennady Golovkin would react if Daniel Jacobs dropped him Saturday night, you’re not alone. Not even Golovkin and trainer Abel Sanchez know what the Kazakh knockout artist would do if Jacobs were to knock him down during their middleweight title fight at Madison Square Garden. According to Golovkin, he was never knocked down during any of his 350 amateur fights, and he hasn’t been dropped in any of his 36 professional fights.
Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will enter this fight like he always does - prepared for anything that comes his way and dealing with it accordingly. He has prevailed against fighters of every style, sometimes early, sometimes late, but always with crushing brutality.
Gennady Golovkin is unbeaten in 36 fights, winning 33 by knockout. Tonight he faces his toughest test yet when he looks for his 37th straight win as a professional in his WBC, WBA, IBO and IBF title defence against American Daniel Jacobs.
There may be a semantic argument for a certain prominent red headed battler as history’s middleweight champion, but for most of the sport’s followers the man at middleweight will be decided Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
NEW YORK – Size might matter after all in the Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs fight. Jacobs skipped the IBF’s second-day weigh-in Saturday morning for their middleweight title fight Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. In accordance with IBF rules, neither fighter could weigh more than 10 pounds over the 160-pound limit at its second-day weigh-in at 9 a.m. ET Friday. Golovkin weighed 169.6 pounds on Saturday morning. By failing to appear at the IBF’s second-day weigh-in, Jacobs forfeited his right to fight for Golovkin’s IBF title in this HBO Pay-Per-View main event (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT; $64.95 in HD). Their scheduled 12-round fight will proceed, though only Golovkin’s WBA and WBC titles will be on the line.
New York - From The New York Golden Gloves to defeating cancer, Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KO’s) will fulfill one of his biggest dreams - headlining a big pay-per-view card from Madison Square Garden. Jacobs will be inside the ring of the world’s most famous arena, live on HBO pay-per-view - a scenario that he still can’t believe is finally here.