By Allan Fox: WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko says Daniel Jacobs came up short last Saturday night in his attempts to rip Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s middleweight titles away from him. Lomachenko notes that the Golovkin-Jacobs fight was a close one, but he doesn’t think Jacobs dominated enough in the majority of the fight for him to get the victory. He thought Jacobs fought well at times, but wasn’t consistent enough for him to beat Triple G.
By Godfrey Falcon: Last Saturday, March 18th, showcased what has so far been the most anticipated boxing matchup of 2017. In a thrilling and back-and-forth bout at the Madison Square Garden in New York, Danny “Miracle Man” Jacobs (32-2) lost to Gennady “GGG” Golovkin via a 12 round unanimous Decision. The final scorecards of 113-114, 112-115, and 112-115 indicated a competitive match, something many boxing analysts did not expect.
By Angel Flowers: This past weekend the number one middleweight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fought who many regard as the number #2 middleweight in Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs. This was a fight that Golovkin wanted to price himself out of by not giving Jacobs what was fair. Golovkin argued that he was the “A” side of the fight and Jacobs should be happy with whatever he was given. I can understand this way of thinking, after all who exactly is Daniel Jacobs? Jacobs has only beaten Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin who himself is questionable.
By Justin Graham: Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has gone from being a relatively unknown former Olympic silver medalist from Kazakhstan in 2012 to one of boxing’s biggest stars and top pound-for-pound fighters in just a few years. However, for Golovkin, like most foreign fighters that come to America, there will always be the group of fans, mostly casual boxing fans, who will seemingly never give him his due credit for anything. A lot of those fans’ are now saying that Daniel Jacobs beat Golovkin and that he should get an immediate rematch. No, GGG does not have to face Danny Jacobs again.
By Jim Dower: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was not impressed with what he saw from Gennady “GGG” Golovkin last Saturday night in his fight on HBO pay-per-view against Daniel Jacobs. Chavez Jr. thinks that Jacobs should have been given the victory over Golovkin because he deserved it more in his opinion. Chavez Jr. says Golovkin was just looking for a knockout punch, and that Jacobs did the better work in the fight. Chavez Jr. says Golovkin was hurt by Jacobs.
By Chris Williams: Middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s fight against Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs last Saturday night failed to bring in the large pay-per-view numbers on HBO that some had hoped. According to Lance Pugmire, the Golovkin-Jacobs fight brought in a range of 130,000 to 150,000 pay-per-view buys on HBO. These are unofficial numbers though. HBO still hasn’t announced the official numbers for the fight. The 150K would equal the PPV numbers Golovkin’s fight against David Lemieux pulled in two years ago in 2015.
By Allan Fox: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya says middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) didn’t help his chances of making the fight his top guy Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) after his narrow 12 round unanimous decision win over Daniel Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. De La Hoya still wants to make the Canelo-Golovkin fight but he feels that Golovkin’s promoters at K2 will need to give in to Canelo in the negotiations for the fight to get made. De La Hoya says that Canelo is the proven A-side in the negotiations. The Canelo-Golovkin negotiations will be resuming this week for their proposed fight in September on HBO PPV.
By Dan Ambrose: Daniel Jacobs still doesn’t seem to have fully digested his loss to Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) last Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) says he watched the fight his fight with Golovkin 3 to 4 times, and he still believes he should have been given the victory. What’s interesting is that Jacobs believes that part of the reason why he lost the fight to Golovkin was because of the huge interest in the boxing world in the Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Golovkin fight, which could take place in September.
By Allan Fox: Former world title challenger Gabriel Rosado was disappointed in the performance by Daniel Jacobs in his loss to Gennady “GGG” Golovkin last weekend. Rosado says that Jacobs made the mistake of giving Golovkin far too much respect by not using his own punching power to beat him. Rosado believes that the fight was there to be won by Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) if he had fought with some intensity and used his own formidable punching power to trade with Triple G.
By Jeff Aranow: Daniel Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) believes that he should have been given the win over Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) last Saturday, but there was no controversy at all with the final decision by the three judges. Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler points out that the boxing fans aren’t making a big fuss over the outcome of the fight. There is zero controversy. Golovkin won the fight by a close decision after knocking Jacobs down in round 4 and being the aggressor during the contest.