Should Golovkin give up on Jacobs fight?

By Boxing News - 10/22/2016 - Comments

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By Eric Baldwin: Team Golovkin is now in it’s second month of negotiations with WBA middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs’ management team, and a fight between Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) and Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) appears to be no closer to getting done than it was when the two fighters’ promoters started the negotiations.

Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler asked for a 15-day extension with the World Boxing Association on Friday to avoid the purse bid deadline of Saturday, October 22. The negotiations will now continue even though the fight is no longer going to take place on December 10 on HBO like was originally planned.

For a lot of boxing fans, they want to see Golovkin move on rather than spending more valuable time negotiating a fight that may not be possible to put together. Golovkin may find out the hard way that there was never any real serious interest in making the fight from the other side. This is why Loeffler should just let the fight go to a purse bid and take his chances. They can always back out of the fight if things don’t work out in the bid.

It would be best for Golovkin to give up on the Jacobs fight, and just move on. If that means having to give up his WBA 160lb title, then so be it. Let the title go. It’ll be a cinch for Golovkin to get a crack at the belt later on down the line after he’s faced Saul Canelo Alvarez next year.

It’s not a good idea for Golovkin to risk putting more time into a fight that might leave him empty handed at the end of the negotiation period. That’s why Loeffler should have set a short negotiation period deadline for the Jacobs fight. If they couldn’t’ get the fight done during that time frame, then he should have moved on to a different fight.

Golovkin needs to forget about trying to collect all the titles in the middleweight division, because it’s too troublesome in trying to negotiate fights with fighters that simply don’t have any real reason for wanting to fight him. If Golovkin was a huge pay-per-view star, then it’s hard not to believe that his fight against Jacobs wouldn’t have been done already. There would be no feet dragging for a fight with money on the line.