This is the biggest problem in boxing. Now we know Golovkin outlanded Jacobs regardless, but literally the tactical approach for Jacobs corner was to basically just land baby taps and evade Golovkin's punches and never to land any solid shots. It removes the entire point of boxing. I think that fighters need to atleast engage. Or, engaging must get you the nod if the other guy is outlanding you. If you're running in a fight but at least smashing your opponent with solid counters I'm OK with that. But if you're gameplan is to run and win rounds with weak punches and you barely outland you're opponent the guy that is engaging the action should get the nod. I'm not saying boxing is supposed to be a bloodbath, but the whole point of decision victories was to protect boxers who were unable to get knocked out. It literally has turned into run and make sure your glove lightly touches his face! That removes the whole point of the sport.
You completely misunderstood and are drawing your own interpretation of their game plan. The plan was to avoid unnecessary risks and a fire fight, not to land "baby taps". His shots looked lighter for 2 reasons: 1) relativity to Golovkin's shots and 2) he was in and out, not planting his feet to avoid being stationary. Nothing wrong with his plan, people just felt Golovkin executed better.
Hence why effective aggression matters. The reason Floyd can get away with it is because he doesn't get hit. His hand speed is also good enough to land clean punches. Jacobs didn't land much of anything really.
I still remember Ronnie Shields yelling at Vernon Forrest, to forget the power shots, because he would just break his hand on Mayorga's head. Jab jab and grab that mother ****er, smh. Forrest would have eventually softened him up, being that he hurt him with a body shot later in the fight. I expected a better gameplan than that from shields.
I hate it, i like people to stand toe to toe and war it out, so do most people, fight of the year never goes to runners. But the sport is Boxing not fighting. Totally legal and in regards to the Jacobs GGG fight i think they could not of trained at and executed their plan much better than they did.
True that's their gameplan, but we still hate the BS tapping, slapping, weak ass punching just to take up space and time.
jacobs was doing quiet a bit of holding on the inside too, but thats to be expected he didn't want to trade with ggg in there
if you looked at the flyweight fight before it both of them guys stood in the pocket all night trading and using there skills but i don't blame jacobs for trying to hit,run and hold, he wanted to win and he wasn't going to have any chance what so ever trading with ggg
Any hook, uppercut or straight right counts as a power punch. Even if it isn't thrown with no power. So yea, no. This is a bad post.
I thought Jacobs trainer did a superb job Saturday night, no panic, no real shouting or screaming, he was very understated and insisted Jacobs stick to the game plan. And his instructions always seem to finish on a calm positive note with DJ. I was impressed with the game plan, the hard work that had obviously gone in to it and the discipline by Jacobs and his trainer showed.
Agree, I was thinking the same thing. His confidence and calmness definitely helped Jacobs not to lose his head. That calm "that was totally unnecessary" line after the KD was hilarious too That being said, Jacobs only did touch&run at rd 6 so not sure what is OP on about. Naturally, Jacobs had to move a lot, but we didn't see any Mayweather kind of crap.
So when Floyd does it, it's 'art' but when someone else does it - against a MONSTER puncher - then it's called cowardice?