By Eric Baldwin: In what has to be seen as really news for boxing fans hoping to see IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) fight in December, he’s not going to be fighting for the remainder of the year. According to Dan Rafael, Triple G’s fight against WBA ‘regular’ middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 Kos) couldn’t be negotiated for the December 10 date that they were hoping to stage the fight on HBO Boxing. Team Golovkin still haven’t negotiated the fight with Jacobs’ management, and they’re running out of time before the October 22 deadline the WBA set.
Since Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler doesn’t want to let the fight go to a purse bid, they’ve decided to put the fight off until early 2017. It’s hoped that the Golovkin-Jacobs fight can get made by that point.