Re: Danny Jacobs-Andy Lee - April 28th.
Its a money thing. Jacobs wont fight those other guys unless he gets big money for the trouble he considers those fights. Jacobs is not a significant draw on his own. So there was spike who probably said probably felt he should be given some credit above the low ball offer because of the alphabet title. So they leveraged andy lee against him probably because as other have stated lee still has a name and was cooperative in negotiations to let quillen have a crack at the belt he threw away and lee picked up. Jacobs is following the haymon model still (promoted by hearn, still advised by haymon). Fight someone big for an even or smaller percentage (GGG/Quillen) or someone small for a huge percentage (Arias, Lee, Morax2) but never risk losing unless you're paid handsomely for it.
"Sport"
They want your @$$ beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement, excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and tear your @$$ down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy.
Roy Jones, Jr. "What I've Learned," Esquire 2003
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