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https://www.boxingscene.com/lomachenko-warns-hell-punish-teofimo-lopez-big-talk--138533

Lomachenko Warns That He'll Punish Teofimo Lopez For Big Talk

In the last few months, WBO, WBA lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has been listening to a lot of verbal jabs from the direction of rising contender Teofimo Lopez, and his very talkative father.

Lopez and Lomachenko are both promoted by Top Rank.

Lopez has been pressing his promoter to make a fight with Lomachenko in 2019.

But Lomachenko is not interested in the the fight until Lopez secures a world title.

According to Lomachenko, he believes Lopez and his father constructed a plan to use his name for their own financial gain.

"In this situation, objectively, as well as subjectively, its clear that they are trying to show their strength. A strong person is never going to shout about it, they are never going to try to insult somebody. That person is just going to silently do their thing and prove it with their actions and not words," Lomachenko said to Loma TV.

"So far, it's just a lot of talking, him showing his strategic thinking in, probably, business. Because before that, when he wasn't saying anything, nobody knew who he was or even heard his name despite the fact that he ended his fights with knockouts. At some point they probably chose the strategy or a tactic to use my name to promote him and promote that fight, in order to make money on that.

"Its working pretty well, because the people in America swallows that, so its working pretty well. On my side, I like that too, because I'm in a very good situation, in a very good position. He has talked himself into so much that I know exactly how I'm going to hold that fight. I'm going to hold him accountable in that fight for every word that has been said.

"Additionally, I don't need to do anything to promote that fight. I'm not going to do anything, I'll stay silent, and then we will go into the ring, and in the ring each will do and show much he is worth."
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Lopez is officially in Lomo’s head...
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/oscar-de-la-hoya-ppv-no-longer-alive-dazn--138574

Oscar De La Hoya: PPV is No Longer Alive Because of DAZN

By Gilbert Manzano

The highly anticipated streaming bout between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Hold up. Streaming bout? That doesn’t sound right.

How about blockbuster bout? No, that can’t be it. Blockbusters are a thing of the past.

Nor can it be a pay-per-view bout because those type of fights are dead, according to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya.

If this was pre-2019, Alvarez-Jacobs would likely be on PPV with a hefty price tag of $79.99, or $69.99 in standard definition for those still purchasing movies from the last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon.

De La Hoya and Alvarez got ahead of the curve when they shifted away from the usual PPV format after signing with streaming service DAZN last year. But the jury is still out on if they jumped ship too soon.

DAZN loaded up on boxing’s biggest stars by signing Alvarez, unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and most recently former middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.

Alvarez and Joshua have each fought once on the streaming platform, but Saturday will be DAZN’s most important night since launching in the U.S. late last year.

De La Hoya is confident the compelling Alvarez-Jacobs bout will gain DAZN many subscribers to make up for the money they would have gained if it were on PPV. DAZN recently raised its monthly fee from $9.99 to $19.99, and also offers an annual charge of $99.99.

“Remember back in the day when NBC or CBS would televise the biggest fights in boxing, including Muhammad Ali and all the major events, and then people were confused after a while, ‘What’s this pay-per-view stuff? Why do I have to pay $30, $40?’” De La Hoya told BoxingScene.com. “And now it’s up to $100. So now we come to the new age, where pay per view is no longer alive because you have streaming services like DAZN.”

Despite De La Hoya’s comments, pay-per-view fights still exist in boxing. Showtime PPV had Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner in January and FOX’s first PPV was Errol Spence Jr.-Mikey Garcia in March.

Top Rank and ESPN have something similar to DAZN by streaming fights on their ESPN+ app. But they too are still in the PPV business. Terence Crawford’s sixth-round technical knockout against Amir Khan in April was on PPV.

With Golden Boy Promotions’ competitors still charging PPV prices for their biggest bouts, De La Hoya said that will help DAZN’s cause come Saturday night.

“It’s a learning process, but people get it,” De La Hoya said about streaming fights. “When DAZN signed Canelo, when DAZN signed Anthony Joshua and Triple G, what other network or streaming services has the best talent? DAZN does. For boxing, DAZN is the destination and people are getting used to it. People know the best fights are going to happen on DAZN.”
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Someone needs ask Oscar when is DAZN going release their subscriber numbers since they’re doing so great.. According to him and Hearn...
 
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Canelo vs Jacobs: Daniel Jacobs say Team Canelo want to keep him as dehydrated as possible

Jacobs isn’t thrilled by Golden Boy making him do a second-day weigh-in.



In this video interview with Fight Hub TV, IBF middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs fields questions on Canelo’s team demanding a second-day weigh-in and why he thinks they’re trying to keep him as weak as possible heading into the fight.


Jacobs on his rehydration clause:

“I mean it’s very frustrating because I’ve heard the interview where Canelo said that it wasn’t up to him and he had no say-so whether the IBF rules was implemented. But as we know, the IBF doesn’t put those rules on us [for unification fights]. They say that it’s up to the fighters’ discretion. You know I ain’t want that! Right? You know I just wanted to fight for the belts, get my rest, wake up and fight a great fight.

“Not that I need any advantages, because I don’t need any advantages for Canelo Alvarez. I simply need to be my best fighter inside that ring come that night. But it was Golden Boy and their team that put that stipulation in there. And this just sucks because this is not the history of boxing, this is not true champion behavior. If you’re a champion in whatever weight class you are in you will fight those guys with no — I mean he’s done it with Cotto and Khan and all these other guys he’s put weight stipulations on.

“So, I mean, when you think about ‘true champion,’ I don’t know if we can really throw that out there because even though he’s a stellar guy, even though he’s an amazing champion, but you gotta be true to the sport, and you can’t look for advantages in any way that you can get ‘em. You know what I mean? Because if you’re gonna beat a guy, beat me fair and square.”


On what Golden Boy’s weight stipulation specifically is:

“That if I weigh over 170lbs come the morning of [the fight] that I had to pay — first it was $250,000 a pound, we got it down to $100,000. So this is, really — you guys are seeing the concerns that they have. They’re thinking because I’m a big middleweight that I need an advantage and they wanna keep me as small and dehydrated as possible. But it won’t work. For my last fight I felt great, I did, and followed the rules of the IBF and weighing 170 the next morning and I felt great for my fight. So, I’m not really looking forward to physically being drained but I am highlighting the fact that these guys put that in there because it’s not supposed to be there.”

On how he would respond to those who would say they’re justified in asking for the morning weigh-in because he didn’t do one in his fight against Golovkin:

“Well I would respond by simply saying that even still, you don’t control boxing because you are the biggest man in the sport. You don’t start dictating what happens in weigh stipulations — there’s all of these different things. I mean, you fight a fair fight and you weigh-in honest, 160lbs, and then you come in the fight however much you wanna weigh. Because that’s been the history of boxing.


“Never in my life — this is like new to me, this whole weight stipulation thing and contracts on everything else other than. And for me, I’m a true fighter, so I’m gonna do the things that I need to do and I understand that this is the biggest fight that can be made so I had to take that chance.”]
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Wild what they will do for certain fighter...
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/hearn-wilder-fight-joshua-take-control-your-own-career--138624

Hearn To Wilder: Fight Joshua, Take Control of Your Own Career!

Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, has called on WBC champion Deontay Wilder to apply pressure on his own team to make a unification happen in 2019.

Hearn has been steaming since Wilder's co-manager, Shelly Finkel, stated in an interview that Wilder was booked up for 2019 - and a unification with Joshua would likely not happen until 2020 at the earliest.

Wilder is back on May 18th, when he faces Dominic Breazeale at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Joshua is back on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and faces late replacement Andy Ruiz - who like Wilder is part of the Premier Boxing Champions banner.

According to Hearn, if Wilder decides to face Joshua he would would be capable of making at least double or even triple the rate of deciding to go against any other opponent.

Hearn believes that Wilder will next take a rematch with Luis Ortiz and then face Adam Kownacki.

"I can't understand - if you're Deontay Wilder, why would you not fight Anthony Joshua for double - triple the money you're making anywhere else. It's there for him. I know that [Luis] Ortiz has already been promised the Wilder fight, I know that [Adam] Kownacki has already been promised the Wilder fight," Hearn told IFL TV.

"So we're not just talking about 2020, we might be talking about 2021 when Wilder's available. It's bulls*** for the sport of boxing it really is and it's annoying because certain people without the brain capacity presume that Joshua doesn't want to fight Wilder - you couldn't be more wrong.

"Take control of your own career. He always says in interviews, 'these promoters don't let you do this and you've got to be in control of your own career. If you want the fight, take control of your own career."
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Buzzing for the weekend, been watching a few vids in the build up...

Eddie is such a cunt but its like he knows he is haha he pulls out the receipts on Ortiz's team (around 7mins mark)...

 
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/26670180/jacobs-fails-weight-check-canelo-fight-on

Jacobs fails weight check; Canelo fight still on

LAS VEGAS -- Daniel Jacobs badly missed weight at a contractually agreed-upon weight check on Saturday morning ahead of his mega-fight with Canelo Alvarez at T-Mobile Arena.

The fight to unify their three middleweight title belts is still on for later Saturday (DAZN, 9 p.m. ET). Jacobs, while still eligible to win the titles, will take a financial hit and has angered Alvarez.

Jacobs was 173.6 pounds, well over the 170-pound rehydration limit they had in their contract. Alvarez was 169 pounds, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya told ESPN.

Both sides initially told ESPN that there was a confidentiality clause in the contract that prevented either side from publicly disclosing the weight-check weights, but De La Hoya later went on the record about it.

"Jacobs came in heavy. It is what it is," De La Hoya said. "We spoke to Canelo, and his attitude is, 'I don't care. I'm still gonna kick his ass.' Canelo is pissed off, and he wants to kick his ass. Canelo was 169, solid and feeling stronger than ever. But the fact that Jacobs came in heavy tells you a lot. It tells you how unsure he is in himself."

They both made the 160-pound middleweight division limit Friday afternoon, with Alvarez weighing 159.5 pounds and Jacobs 160, but they were subject to a weight check at 8 a.m. PT in their respective hotel suites, with a member of the other camp on hand to observe -- a contractual clause demanded by Alvarez's team because of Jacobs' size advantage.

But Jacobs either could not or did not want to hold his weight down and put himself at a physical disadvantage by being weak for the fight, so he was not even close to 170.

De La Hoya declined to discuss the financial penalty specifics, but a source with knowledge of the deal told ESPN that because Jacobs was over, he is subject to a $250,000 fine per pound plus the fraction thereof that he was over 170 pounds. That means Jacobs would be fined $1 million from his guarantee of more than $10 million, although his promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, said Wednesday that he might pay the fine if Jacobs was over.

De La Hoya said he understood Alvarez's anger but that he was not too upset over it.

"My thought is, as long as both guys made 160 and Canelo looked the stronger fighter during the weigh-in [Friday], that's all that matters," De La Hoya said. "We have a fight."

The Jacobs camp declined to comment immediately following the weight check, citing the confidentiality clause, and then could not be reached after De La Hoya's public disclosure.

It was not the first time Jacobs has had issues with a weight check on the morning of a fight. When he met then-unified world champion Gennady Golovkin in a 2017 middleweight title fight, Jacobs blew off the IBF's mandated weight check entirely and was not eligible to win that specific belt later that night in what turned out to be a close decision loss.
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