Daniel Jacobs

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.

read more

By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will begin training this week on Wednesday or Thurman for his December 10 title defense on HBO Championship Boxing, according to his trainer Abel Sanchez. Golovkin is supposed to be fighting WBA ‘regular’ 160lb champion Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs), but it’s still unknown at this point if the fight can get made.

Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is in negotiations with Jacobs’ manager Al Haymon to try and put the fight together. The World Boxing Association gave the two camps an extension in the negotiations until October 22. If the fight isn’t done by then, it’ll go to a purse bid.

read more

By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Association ruled against Daniel Jacobs’ management’s request for a 60/40 purse split for a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) on December 10 on HBO Championship Boxing. Thus far, Jacobs hasn’t officially pulled out of the fight with Golovkin yet, but there are many who believe that he’ll do that in order to avoid a knockout loss for little money.

If Jacobs pulls out of the Golovkin fight now, he’ll lose his WBA title, but he’ll be able to try and slide in next year after the smoke clears for the Golvokin vs. Saul Canelo Alvarez fight, which is supposedly taking place in September 2017.

read more

By Dan Ambrose: With his growing audience in the U.S, unbeaten middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will be just fine even if WBA ‘regular’ 160lb champion Daniel Jacobs chooses to price himself out of their fight on December 10. It really doesn’t matter if Golovkin gets that fight, because he’s now become so popular that he’s independent of guys like Jacobs or even Saul Canelo Alvarez.

The fans in the boxing world are going to tune in to watch Golovkin in high numbers no matter who he faces next. If Jacobs prices himself out, he’s going to be forgotten and the fans will be focusing on Golovkin. He has it like that now.

read more

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.

read more

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.

read more

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.

read more

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.

read more