Gennady Golovkin's promoter says talks to fight Daniel Jacobs have been 'positive'

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"If Haymon wins purse bid, GGG-Jacobs goes to regular Showtime" (Source: The Ring)

If the bout between Gennady Golovkin and Danny Jacobs goes to purse bid on Monday and Al Haymon wins the auction and decides to put the fight on Showtime, that network’s boxing chief Stephen Espinoza said he would try to put the fight on Showtime instead of Showtime PPV.

“Ultimately, the decision of whether a fight goes to pay-per-view is really the promoters,” Espinoza told RingTV.com on Wednesday. “But from our perspective, we would do everything we could, if we were offered the Golovkin-Jacobs fight, we would target that for Showtime. Not that it’s not a really big, exciting fight. But in our eyes, it hasn’t quite matured to the commercial level of a pay-per-view. It’s a really good Showtime fight and we’d try to keep it there for Showtime subscribers to enjoy.”

So perhaps letting Golovkin collect a career-high payday to fight on Showtime for one fight wouldn’t be the end of the world for HBO brass. “It’s conceivable he fights on Showtime in 2017 if Haymon wins the purse bid,” said one well-embedded mole. On the other hand, the likelihood of HBO not enforcing its contractual obligations to Golovkin if Haymon wins the purse bid seem remote if it ever gets to that point.

ESPN ran a similar article whereby Dan Rafael believed that the bout would likely wind up on HBO PPV on March 18th if K2 won the purse bid.

Personally-speaking, I think it would be good if Haymon won the purse bid, just to see what happens, because the Kazakh may end up better off in the long run crossing the street to Showtime, even if it results in September’s bout against Canelo not being made.