Mayweather comments on Golovkin-Jacobs fight

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By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. saw middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s fight against Daniel Jacobs, and he says Triple G came up short in that fight, even though won the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision on the three judges’ scorecards. Mayweather says he could train the 29-year-old Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) to do a better job. The 40-year-old Mayweather further said that he would beat Golovkin if fought him. However, when asked if he would fight Golovkin at 154, Mayweather said he’s only coming back to boxing for the big fights, and he’s only interested in one fight and that’s against UFC fighter Conor McGregor. Mayweather doesn’t see Golovkin as being well-known enough to be worth fighting.

Golovkin knocked Jacobs down in round 4, and jabbed him all night long with jabs that snapped Jacobs’ head back. It didn’t appear that Jacobs won the fight. The knockdown and his overall unwillingness to take risks made Jacobs look like the loser in the fight. If Mayweather still believes that Jacobs won the fight despite his passive approach to the fight, then it makes you wonder if he saw the fight. Some boxing fans think Mayweather is jealous of Golovkin because of how popular he’s become in the last 2 years.

“When I was overseas I seen another fighter fight and I thought he came up short. Y’all know who we’re talking about,” said Mayweather to Fighthype.com about his thoughts that Golovkin should have lost to Jacobs. ”Triple-L, because he lost three times to me. Triple-G, he can punch, he’s a good puncher. But I may need to train Danny Jacobs, because Danny Jacobs – he could have got the job done a lot better. I could have shown him how to get the job done a lot better. But Danny Jacobs put up a hell of a fight. He’s a hell of a fighter. Triple-G is a hell of a fighter. It was a good match-up,” said Mayweather.

Instead of the fans talking about Mayweather and his proposed fight against McGregor, who has never fought a professional fight in boxing, the fans are mostly talking about Golovkin. Mayweather is partly to blame for that. If he were to say he’s coming back to fight Golovkin or Saul Canelo Alvarez, then the fans would be talking about him. It’s hard for fans to talk about Mayweather’s fight with McGregor because it’s such a mismatch, and it doesn’t promise to be competitive. There’s a good chance that the fans that purchase the Mayweather-McGregor fight on PPV will feel angry afterwards, feeling that they were suckered into buying the fight.

I don’t think Mayweather could train Jacobs well enough for him to ever beat Golovkin, because for him to beat him, he would need to stand and fight. If Jacobs doesn’t move around the ring, he’ll likely get knocked out by Golovkin, because he doesn’t possess the chin to stand and trade.

We saw what happened when Jacobs tried to fight Golovkin in round 4. Jacobs was knocked down by him. After that knockdown, Jacobs spent most of the remainder of the fight moving around the ring and not trading. When you want to win the fight, you can’t let yourself get knocked down like Jacobs did. Getting dropped was what put Jacobs in the hole in the fight. Jacobs never climbed out of the fight after the knockdown because he was too cautious and completely unwilling to fight Golovkin. He boxed GGG instead of fighting him, and he lost because of it.

Mayweather could train Jacobs all he wants, but I think the results would be worse in a rematch between them. I think Jacobs will lose badly no matter who trains him. Golovkin is going to be a lot more aggressive if there’s ever a rematch, and I can see Jacobs being knocked out quickly like he was against Dmitry Pirog. If there is a rematch, Golovkin needs to get a rehydration limit to keep Jacobs from rehydrating over a certain point. Golovkin can’t be fighting guys in the 180s or fighters that choose not to be weighed in for weigh-ins the day of the fight.

If Golovkin is going to be weighed in, then Jacobs needs to be weighed in to so that the fight is completely fair. Jacobs didn’t weigh in for the International Boxing Federation’s same day weigh-in. You can argue that Jacobs got an advantage over Golovkin by choosing not to be weighed in. I’m not sure that Jacobs will ever get another chance at fighting Golovkin though, because the two of them appear to be going in different directions. Golovkin is looking to get 2 more fights at middleweight against Billy Joe Saunders and Canelo Alvarez before moving up to 168. Jacobs will likely remain at 160 and will need to fight it out with a young lion Jermall Charlo if he wants to be a world champion after GGG has moved up to 168. Jacobs won’t beat Charlo fighting the way he did against Golovkin. Charlo would likely knock Jacobs out if he fought defensively like that.

“I came out of retirement for one fighter, and that’s Conor McGregor. But if I was still active in the fight game, y’all already know. I don’t have to tell the fans what I’d do. I’d put the work in on that boy,” said Mayweather about him beating Golovkin if he were to fight him.

I think it’s doubtful that Mayweather beats Golovkin. He’d be eating jabs from the bigger, stronger Golovkin, and he’d run into a big power shot at some point that would put him in trouble. It would be a very draining fight for Mayweather to be hit hard by Golovkin for 12 rounds. Golovkin would have nothing to fear from Mayweather because he’s even less of a puncher than Kell Brook. Golovkin would just go right after Mayweather and look to decapitate him with one of his big power shots.

“I’m not thinking about that,” said Mayweather in response to whether he would come back to back to fight Golovkin. “It’s all about the big money fights. Who is he?” said Mayweather.

Is Mayweather afraid of Golovkin? It’s easy to talk about beating him, but if Mayweather isn’t willing to test himself against him, then you have to draw the conclusion that he doesn’t believe what he’s saying.