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Heretic wrote: ↑23 Feb 2018, 10:48 I really hope that Jacobs will get a chance to box for one of the belts soon. He is deeply in the high risk low reward sector. I would like to see him against someone good soon.

I had him winning in really close fight against GGG so i think he does deserve a shot.

Jacobs seems like a latter day Mike McCallum.

Daniel Jacobs isn’t going to be given an opportunity to face the winner of the GGG-Canelo bout in the short-term, because there are several other fighters that are ahead of him in the queue (i.e. Sergiy Derevyanchenko [IBF], Jermall Charlo [WBC], Billy Joe Saunders [WBO]… and potentially Ryota Murata [WBA]).

It’s unlikely that the winner of the GGG-Canelo bout will be allowed to face someone like Daniel Jacobs, in a voluntary defence, without being stripped of their titles (due to a failure to either perform their mandatory obligations or engaging in a title unification bout).

He could become a late replacement for Canelo. He has a fight against Sulecki scheduled for a week earlier, so he will be fully ready if necessary.

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑26 Mar 2018, 09:26 He could become a late replacement for Canelo. He has a fight against Sulecki scheduled for a week earlier, so he will be fully ready if necessary.

Yeah, I agree with this.

The governing bodies can use their discretion to occasionally contradict their own rules under mitigating circumstances, such as authorising the use of a late replacement opponent, even if they aren’t the mandatory or not even ranked in the top 15.

However, if the Canelo-GGG bout does go ahead though, we won’t see Jacobs facing the victor of that fight anytime soon.