Is Danny Jacobs just a solid C grade fighter?

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  1. TheMotorCityCobra

    TheMotorCityCobra Active Member Full Member

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    You think Danny Jacobs boxing skills are basic? Clearly you have no understanding and no respect for what it takes to even make it as a full-time pro fighter, let alone to be one of the 5 to 10 best MW’s in the entire world. He is in the top 1 percentile of all professional boxers and you consider that average and basic? That’s a giant kick to the nuts of the thousands and thousands of really talented fighters who will never come close to achieving the level of success, money and fame that Danny has achieved. I cannot even fathom someone thinking Danny is a C-level fighter. I simply can’t wrap my brain around the absolute ignorance of that notion. The dude is among the best in the world and you call him an ok fighter. Pathetic.
     
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  2. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Name me some skills he uses that Hearns used, he gets by with speed and some power nothing more.
     
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    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    C level? You must be a failure in life then.
     
  4. ecdrm15

    ecdrm15 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hes a top 5 middleweight. To be competitive with GGG and Canelo means hes a really good fighter.

    Id like to see him and the rest of them agains BJS and Charlo.
     
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  5. TheMotorCityCobra

    TheMotorCityCobra Active Member Full Member

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    He has an excellent jab, he's very good moving forward behind the jab, he's very good from distance, he's got a big right hand, good left hook, solid fundamentals, he can fight from both sides, he uses his legs well, he's fast, he's strong. Look man, you're entitled to say whatever you want, I was just stunned that someone could actually call Danny C-level. Seems insane to me. By definition, average or C-level means he's in the middle of the pack at Middleweight. That would mean there's hundreds of MW's that are better than him. I don't know how anyone could insinuate that. I'm guessing you're just trying to stir up reactions.
     
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    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Sanders is NOT a middlewt.

    He has left the division.
     
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  7. Bigdog2002

    Bigdog2002 Active Member Full Member

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    Actually Jacobs was an elite fighter who was over looked because of his loss to pirog!

    He beat GGG IN MY opinion. Dude was p4p top 10. Haymon didn’t want to feed him the charlos and that hurt his career which is why he went to dazn
     
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    kirk l l l Staff Member

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    Hes clearly above C level imo.

    Id say solid B.
     
  9. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Take the risk or lose the chance Full Member

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    MURK20 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'll admit, I knew that comment was going to bite me in the behind. However I stand by the other points that I mentioned. Jacobs is so overrated.
     
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  11. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    Ok I'd still disagree and yea I did zone in on just that one bit because it was really something that caught my eye.

    I dont think hes overrated or underrated. Hes regarded as a top level 160 pounder. Which he is.
     
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  12. Bustajay

    Bustajay Feel the Steel/Balls Deep Full Member

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    Danny is an A-
     
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    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No his a top fighter just has lost vs elite fighters in Canelo and Golovkin. Some will argue he beat GGG as well.

    C level fighters do not take GGG to a razor close fight.
     
  14. Bustajay

    Bustajay Feel the Steel/Balls Deep Full Member

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    Or Canelo either
     
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  15. 22JM

    22JM Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Saunders has proven nothing to be in the mix
     
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