Jacobs wants an interim before GGG.. you can't make this up.

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  1. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    Degale in the uk gets him the most money outside of Canelo.
     
  2. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    Hopkins stayed at 160 for 18 years in an trash Division and fought Robert Allen 3 times. I think GGG can stay at 160 for a bit longer and unify all the belts. 168 is a garbage division right now also. Let him KO Jacobs, Saunders, and Canelo then ask him to move up. He still has unfinished business at 160. It isn't like he is fighting William James and Andrew Council type fights.
     
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  3. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    You know Degale isn't a big draw in the UK right? People don't like him. That's how he ended up being an Olympic Gold medalist fighting in leisure centres and pub carparks under Mick Hennessy and having to repeatedly go on the road under Eddie Hearn.
     
  4. theanatolian

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    SMW being better than MW is nothing but wishful thinking on you GGG haters' part. With the possible addition of some big 154 pounders, 160 has much better debt than 168.
     
  5. Pimp C

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    Difference is Hopkins fought atgs in tito and oscar and highly touted taylor at 160 that's a big difference! Remember Hopkins was the underdog against tito as well. Ggg doesn't have that level of comp if he had guys like that around I wouldn't complain but he doesn't.
     
  6. Pimp C

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    The guys at 154 are largely unproven although they have potential. The only proven guys there are canelo and Lara but for whatever reason ggg has absolutely no interest in lara.
     
  7. Rico Spadafora

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    The Oscar fight was a farce. Period. Hopkins boiled down to 160 for 18 years and fought a lot of guys coming up from 154. Let's also remember Hopkins lost the Taylor fights and we all saw what Taylor was made of. Glass.
    Let GGG fight any combination of 2 out of 3 between Jacobs, Saunders, and Canelo and I will be right there with you telling him to move up. Not until then. He has unfinished business.
     
  8. theanatolian

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    Lara would be a better fight than most 168 pounders, I agree. But I meant J-Rock and Andrade who are likely to grow out of 154 within next couple of years.
     
  9. Pimp C

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    Whether you believe that or not tito was indeed the favorite over Hopkins in their fight. Canelo won't be the favorite over ggg and neither will anyone else at 160. Lastly ggg is fighting guys who started at 147 as well what he did to brook was disgraceful he didn't even fight him at a catchweight like Hopkins did for oscar. But then again Hopkins was willing to be dictated to in order to get the fights he wanted ggg isn't. Also btw canelo started at ww so ggg is once again targeting a ww what he's done is far worse than Hopkins ever did. Not to mention Hopkins went from mw to lhw to fight Tarver after 40. Ggg isn't cut from that cloth.
     
  10. Pimp C

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    I really like Andrade but the way his career has been handled is criminal. Jrock I just don't see the hype of this guy. Andrade imo is clearly the better talent.
     
  11. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    You're not claiming Canelo is a welterweight now are you? Because that's beyond stupid and at the age Canelo was fighting at 147 Golovkin was also a fair bit lighter himself.
     
  12. Pimp C

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    Whatever the case may be canelo isn't a natural mw, ggg is.
     
  13. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    Scenarios:

    GGG fights Jacobs in Dec and Saunders in April. I call for him to move up

    GGG fights Jacobs in Dec and Canelo in May. I call for him to move up

    GGG fights Saunders and Canelo. I call for him to move up.

    I don't think this is being unreasonable. 168 without Ward isn't any better than 160 is right now. This "GGG has to move up right now" business sounds like sour grapes. When did we start criticizing fighters for wanting to fully unify a Division? It is petty and silly. Look how long it took Ward to move up to fight Kovalev. That fight should have happened a year ago but Ward needed 3 "tuneups" for some odd/bizarre reason.
     
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  14. Rico Spadafora

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    Neither was Tito or Oscar.
     
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    Beating Canelo would improve every single fighter EVER legacy. Canelo had already proved how great a fighter he is.

    He has every talent and honed skill any could ever need. Ad in he's a beast not only physically but mentally. Even against fmj, he was 1 of very few that actually kept trying anything for the win..

    If studied that fight inside and out, that was the best fmj there was or even could be. Canelo was just BARELY missing fight changer shots round in round out.

    He literally missed 50 odd shots that had ko written ALL OVER THEM.. and we're talking millimeters, not inch'sc ****ing ML''s. What a performance. No WAY does fmj dangle that over his head again. Lucky he wasn't clipped, cause canelo hurts you, and your night night Boi.

    That's a fight that the pac cult followers could chop that **** to peices and make it look like the draw one incompetent judge had it. They're only human, and of course their bias will show here and there.

    Still, he was closer in real world scoring than pac was, that's even taking into account all the sleepless nights, all the heart ache and all the lives fmj shattered. Not just that night, but for 19 straight years, he's been ruining lives.

    I guess we could call it an even decade. Because I don't think it was hate from jump. I think the 2000's really messed up our 3rd world followerseries

    I feel your pain, that's why I've awarded pac 3 additional rounds, not just giving them, I'm stealing them from fmj.

    So instead of 118/110
    We have, 115/113, see if have major empathy for the cult following.

    Now that's a close looking fight, now please pac followers, please stop the obsession over fmj and his entire career. I can't say I've ever come across "fans" of any sport (or in your world, any single athlete) that are 1/1000 as bad as some of you.

    Can't say **** about me, I literally robbed 3 from fmj AND handed them over to pac. 4 would be just a little too much. That's literally 1/3rd the entire fight. Might as well just take the entire 8m 31seconds of massively bias stripped and rewrote fight footage.

    Next, put together the Gatti fight, I swear Gatti won MORE rounds than given credit for, I bet he was saving everything's for 6 thru 12. That's what true Champs do.


    Where the **** is the fmj/cotto footage ? No waudio could anyone have fmj as the victory, he had a broken nose AND blood streaming. How are the cotto fans able to accept reality while the pac cult refuses facts ?

    At least the 165 lb cotto gave the 200 lb juiced to the grill fmj a very tough nights work . Pac cult, you still have the severely drained TRAINER less cotto "victory" to hang your ripped hats on