Jacobs only has two fight plans to beat Golovkin

[MDPopescu]

Plan A - attack from the opening round and don't let up until the ref stops the fight

Plan B - clinch, hold, run and fight in survival mode and hope they rob Golovkin

The B plan isn't for Jacobs, because he can't wrestle as Ward does.

[Elroy The Great]

Plan A - attack from the opening round and don't let up until the ref stops the fight

Plan B - clinch, hold, run and fight in survival mode and hope they rob Golovkin

i doubt dj is going to be that basic. he will want to let 3g know hes in there with a grown a55 man though.

dj is going to be smartly aggressive. it could look like ward vs kov, only with someone gktfo.

[Dip_Slide]

GGG has some experience in the championship rounds though which his Murray. He went to the distance against heavy punchers in abraham and Martinez. And GGG stopped him at 11th so even if it does go to the champion rounds GGG has the stamina to do it.

Murray was worn down during the rounds and the accumulation of punishment did it, he was hurt multiple times during the fight and was KDed twice in the 4th round, he didn't utilize the dirty rough game plan i suggested early and was taking punishment the whole fight due to him being poorly positioned at exactly the range GGG likes. Plus this fight was a couple of years back and Jacobs is a bit younger than GGG, so we don't know for sure who's gonna win in a war of attrition, but if GGG managed to land shots throughout the fight then of course he'll have more left to stop Jacobs.

[gmc_rfc_06]

His only chance is to throw bombs and hope one lands.

He doesn't have the chin to last in a long fight.

[Dip_Slide]

The B plan isn't for Jacobs, because he can't wrestle as Ward does.

Well he better learn to!

[MDPopescu]

Well he better learn to!

... Ward learned in about twenty years...

[Thraxox]

Murray was worn down during the rounds and the accumulation of punishment did it, he was hurt multiple times during the fight and was KDed twice in the 4th round, he didn't utilize the dirty rough game plan i suggested early and was taking punishment the whole fight due to him being poorly positioned at exactly the range GGG likes. Plus this fight was a couple of years back and Jacobs is a bit younger than GGG, so we don't know for sure who's gonna win in a war of attrition, but if GGG managed to land shots throughout the fight then of course he'll have more left to stop Jacobs.

I was rewatching the tapes of Jacob-Pirog abd the recent Mora-Jacobs fight. I'm seeing that Jacobs hadn't learn much from that fight. He still is wide open for that counter right hand, and still in the Mora fight he dropped that right hand too often for GGG's left hook. He is not really learning much since his loss in 2010.

[Derranged]

i think he is a better pure boxer than golovkin, he should stay long and try to counterpunch. he does have to try to get ggg out of there early though with one of those counters because he (jacobs) doesnt have the chin or defense to go rounds with a puncher.

I agree with this. He's gonna have to set a trap for Golovkin and try to counter with something big. And it will have to be done relatively early because as you said, Jacobs chin will not hold up.

Going balls to the wall like the thread starter suggested will only increase his chances of getting knocked out.

[Dip_Slide]

... Ward learned in about twenty years...

Ward's strength is firing shots in the clinch and pivoting to land shots on the inside, but when it comes to holding or clinching just to neutralize your opponent (which is theoretically a foul), most fighters with pro level experience can do that and most trainers train fighters to do that in case they got hurt in the fight, that doesn't take a special talent like Ward, you just have to practice it and be physically strong and sneaky enough with it. He's the bigger heavier probably physically stronger man so he MUST take advantage of that.

[Citizen Koba]

Plan A is the one that gives him the best shot. When has Jacobs ever shown either the inclination or the ability to execute anything like plan B?

Incidentally what does the TS reckon their closest opponents are to each other stylistically?