(Photo credit: Esther Lin/SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: WBA “regular” middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (30-1, 27 KOs) will be getting Gennady Golovkin type money this Saturday for his purse for his title defense against former WBO 160lb champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-0-1, 23 KOs) for their match-up of the “battle of Brooklyn” on Showtime Championship Boxing from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Jacobs and Quillin will both be getting $1.5 million for their fight. That’s the type of money that Golovkin is getting for his fights, and he’s seen by many boxing fans as the best fighter in the middleweight division by a lot of fans.