Gennady Golovkin

By Dan Ambrose: WBA president Gilberto Mendoza is hoping WBA middleweight ‘Super champion’ Gennady “GGG” Golovkin or WBA ‘regular” champion Daniel Jacobs will NOT vacate their titles if a fight can’t get made in their negotiations for a match on December 10. Golovkin and Jacobs have slightly less than two more weeks to complete their negotiations before they reach the deadline on October 22.

If they fail to agree to a fight by then, it’ll go to a purse bid. At that point, we could see the Golovkin-Jacobs fight implode with one of them vacating. The original deadline for the negotiations is next Wednesday, but the WBA has given the two fighters an extension so they can try and get the fight made.

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By Eric Baldwin: WBA ‘regular’ middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs and WBA ‘Super Champion’ Gennady “GGG” Golovkin are both stuck in a stalemate in the negotiations for a fight on December 10 in New York. The World Boxing Association mandates that their ‘super champions’ rate a 75/25 split against junior champions. Jacobs and his team wants a 60/40 split, and they’ve asked the WBA to step in and vote on whether they can have the bigger split.

Golovkin’s management are in a position where if he turns down the 60/40 request by Jacobs, they may not get the fight or worse, the WBA could vote to raise the limit themselves. There’s no telling what Jacobs will do if he doesn’t get the 60/40 split he’s asking for.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA ‘regular’ middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) is said to be looking to get an interim fight BEFORE he faces WBA Super Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), according to ESPN.com. Not surprisingly, Golovkin is against Jacobs taking an interim fight. He wants the Jacobs fight next, not in some distant point in the far away future.

Golovkin already went down the interim fight track by letting former WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez take an interim fight against Amir Khan last May while Golovkin fought Dominic Wade. Canelo then vacated his WBC title rather than fight Golovkin. In other words, Golovkin wasted his time letting Canelo take an interim fight rather than insisting on the fight against the Mexican fighter right away.

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By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Association president Gilberto Mendoza has reportedly given fighters Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs an extension to negotiate their fight between them before he decides to call for a purse bid. The extension is until Wednesday.
Jacobs and Golovkin’s management are still working out the purse split of the revenue.

Golovkin, as the WBA ‘Super Champion’, is entitled to a 75/25 split. However, Jacobs’ management wants at least a 60/40 split despite the fact that Golovkin holds the IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight titles and Jacobs just the WBA belt. In other words, they close to parity. Whether Jacobs is popular enough in the boxing world compared to Golovkin to rate a 60/40 split is debatable.

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By Dan Ambrose: With Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs’ management still having not agreed to a fight for the WBA ordered 160lb match-up, it’s looking like the fight will be going to a purse bid. The World Boxing Association president Gilberto Mendoza ordered the fighters to start negotiations on September 11, and gave them 30 days to put the fight together.

We are now just six days away from the end of the 30 days and there still isn’t a negotiated fight. It looks like a purse bid will be ordered for the fight. According to Fight News, Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is saying that they’ve failed to reach an agreement with Jacobs’ management. It’s unknown what the sticking point is in the negotiations.

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By Patrick McHugh: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs are still in negotiations for a fight that is being targeted for December 10 at Madison Square Garden in New York. The World Boxing Association has already given the two fighters’ management a 30-day deadline to negotiate the fight starting on September 12.

With less than a week to go, it appears the fight will go to a purse bid unless an agreement can be made soon. While Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is hopeful that an agreement can be reached, it’s not a good sign that they’re down to the last week. There’s a possibility the Golovkin-Jacobs fight could get moved to 2017.

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