Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs just tried to remain as patient as possible while negotiations dragged along for his shot at Gennady Golovkin. Remaining optimistic and positive wasn’t always easy, though, when boxing fans ferociously attacked the WBA world middleweight champion on social media.
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs isn’t quite sure what percentage of fans inside Madison Square Garden will be rooting for him to beat Gennady Golovkin on March 18. Brooklyn’s Jacobs just knows that “The Mecca of Boxing” will be full when he challenges Kazakhstan’s Golovkin for middleweight supremacy.
Nobody knows Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) better than his most recent opponent, former world champion Sergio Mora. Mora fought Jacobs twice since last August. In their first fight, in August of 2015, both fighters went down in the first round. Mora went down again in the second, and fractured his ankle in the process and was unable to continue. Jacobs was awarded the victory by TKO.
NEW YORK – There were times, Daniel Jacobs admits, that even he wasn’t sure if the biggest fight of his boxing career would get made. There were certain things he sought before agreeing to challenge Gennady Golovkin for middleweight supremacy. It took more than two months of negotiations, but ultimately Jacobs was comfortable with the terms of an agreement to fight Golovkin in an HBO Pay-Per-View main event March 18 at Madison Square Garden.
NEW YORK CITY - Tickets are moving very fast for the World Middleweight Championship on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Madison Square Garden between Unified Middleweight World Champion (WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO), GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN, (36-0, 33
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs believes Abel Sanchez when he says Gennady Golovkin has allowed some of his opponents to hit him. Sanchez, Golovkin’s trainer, has stated numerous times that Golovkin has given foes free shots at him either to extend fights or make those bouts more entertaining. The Kazakh knockout artist hasn’t acknowledged this practice publicly.
By Thomas Gerbasi - BROOKLYN - To those outside of his native Brooklyn, Daniel Jacobs is that guy who beat cancer and went on to win a portion of the middleweight title. And that’s okay. It’s a feel good story of the highest order, and if he walked away from the sport today, a Hollywood treatment of Jacobs’ most harrowing fight and most...
Mexican veteran Juan Manuel Marquez is hoping that his countryman Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) goes through the most sought after fight in boxing by taking on IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) next September, during Mexican Independence Day weekend.
NEW YORK – He won’t allow it to distract him, but Daniel Jacobs is somewhat bothered because some people are looking past his fight against Gennady Golovkin.
Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) is preparing for a tough fight when he returns to the ring on March 18th for a scheduled defense of his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight titles against mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29KOs).