Golovkin-Canelo OFFICIAL!!!- Sept 16th

[Kirkland Laing]

Listened to an Abel Sanchez interview this morning, he explained perfectly why the Jacobs rematch isn't happening - Money.

However good a fight Jacobs gave Golovkin he lost and it did shit numbers. He said Jacobs needs to make a name for himself now, fight Lemiuex, fight another big name, make the money men demand the rematch as the people that fund fights are not currently interested.

You can't argue with that.

Fans don't like it - the divvies will call it a "duck" - but it's the truth. A plain simple fact in boxing is - the bigger the risk the bigger the reward, if that's not the case then the fight is not worth considering.

One of the saddest posts I have ever read. Jacobs won by many peoples opinions. Not the majority, but many. He deserves a rematch. He's out there calling for a rematch. You can't just point to the numbers because the numbers were effected by the fact most thought it was a gimme fight. Proven by the 8/1 odds.

Nobody sees a gimme anymore. It would absolutely get better numbers for part 2. Do you have the nerve to deny it would get better numbers? Please don't dodge the question, don't change the question. Do you think a rematch would get better/worse/same numbers? If you think, as any sane man would, it would get better numbers then the initial numbers are irrelevant.

It would do very similar numbers. Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. Either way it wouldn't be a viable fight to make. HBO aren't buying as many fights as they used to and they're just not going to come up with the scratch again for a rematch. The numbers don't add up to make it a doable proposition. So that's that.

If HBO offered Golovkin a twenty million dollar guarantee tomorrow to rematch Jacobs in his next fight Golovkin would snap their hand off. But instead they're offering him the chance to make that kind of money, more than he's so far earned in his entire career, fighting Alvarez, so that's what he's doing. Whichever fighter offers him the most money for his next fight after Alvarez is the fight he'll take. It's all about the benjamins baby.

I'm not talking about instead of the Alvarez fight. After the Alvarez fight he should be looking at Jacobs. Of course if there's some PPV out there that is what to make. But who is a PPV? HBO has said they have interest in Jacobs NOW, his standing has gone up.

If HBO have said they have interest in Jacobs now and want to make Golovkin-Jacobs two after the Alvarez fight then that's the fight Golovkin will take. If they want him to fight Lemieux then that's who he'll fight next. He's not ducking anybody. He's got a limited time left and he wants to make as much money as he can before it's all over for him. Intrinsic to the whole enterprise is HBO. They're putting up the lion's share of the promotional pot in every fight and occasionally for Golovkin there's a PPV possibility so he's going to do exactly what HBO want every time*.


*Unless there's some big daft offer from somewhere else like when Kazakhstan, the greatest country in the world, made an offer to Golovkin to fight somebody in front of his own countrymen. Then they were thinking about fighting Saunders over there for a nice easy payday and then getting back on the HBO travelator. But the Alvarez fight came up so naturally they grabbed it as it could pay more than the entire rest of his career will.