Daniel Jacobs
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Oct 9, 2026
Keith ConnollyGUEST
Uh, I kinda fell into boxing.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
Uh, I met Danny Jacobs when he was about a week away, I think, from his 17th birthday.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
I went to a Golden Gloves in New York, a local Golden Gloves card, and I was supposed to go with one of my buddies, and he backed out at the last second.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
And I remember sitting on my couch and saying, "Oh, I'm not gonna go.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
I'm gonna stay home." And then something inside me said, "You know what? I'm just gonna go by myself." So I went to the, the card by myself, and I saw Danny Jacobs.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
I'd never heard about him, I'd never seen him, and he looked like Sugar Ray Leonard.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
And I remember calling up my dad from the fight after he fought, because he looked so good, punches in bunches.
Keith ConnollyGUEST
Got his fighters a lot of money, put the fighter first.
Chris AlgieriHOST
Yeah.
Chris AlgieriHOST
So I was fighting on those shows, and also I was working with fighters who were on main events of those shows, of Danny Jacobs.
Chris AlgieriHOST
I was very close with, with Eddie and Keith Connolly back then, so I got to see those inner workings and be in, you know, see some of those meetings and whatnot.
Chris AlgieriHOST
And they were figuring it out, and I think they started getting a real stride in the past couple years, um, really the last, like, 18 months.
Chris AlgieriHOST
Yep.
Chris AlgieriHOST
So I was fighting on those shows and also I was working with fighters who were on main events of those shows of Danny Jacobs.
Chris AlgieriHOST
I was very close with Eddie and Keith Connolly back then.
Chris AlgieriHOST
So I got to see those inner workings and see some of those meetings and whatnot.
Jim OlsonGUEST
And so that's the first thing.
Jim OlsonGUEST
In my book, one of the individuals I met was a middleweight boxing champion, Daniel Jacobs, who had spinal cancer and bounced back, and when I was interviewing him, he had this great metaphor for winning his cancer battle and coming back and winning the middleweight belt.
Jim OlsonGUEST
And he said, "Look, Jim." He goes, "In life and in boxing and in sports and in business, the fight is won before you even step in the ring." And it's kinda that same idea of crises aren't stressful, but not being prepared is stressful.
Jim OlsonGUEST
And what he was saying was that all the sweat and time he puts in in the gym and the strategy and the coaching, everything he does, that's where the, the battle is won, and once he steps into the ring, it's, that's just the final stretch.
Dan RafaelGUEST
First of all, they waive it in a unification fight.
Dan RafaelGUEST
What's the purpose of doing it if it's only an IBF fight? I mean, just off the top of my head, I remember one of the first examples of this was when you had the Gennady Golovkin versus Daniel Jacobs fight.
Dan RafaelGUEST
That was a unification.
Dan RafaelGUEST
And Danny Jacobs was like, you know, forget that.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Did Shakur already compromise enough by moving off the catch weight? Because now he's agreeing to 147, but he does want a rehydration clause, which would make him hypocritical because that's what he complained about Tank, but is it a compromise? That's a question.
Nestor GibbsHOST
The rehydration clause, is this a legitimate size protection or just another contractual handicap to be used to lessen Devin Haney? People hated rehydration clauses when they heard that Canelo was putting them in his contracts with certain fighters like Daniel Jacobs, I believe, and even Kovalev.
Nestor GibbsHOST
So how could we be okay now with this? We complained that Canelo, as a community, we complained that Canelo had these sneaky rehydration clauses.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Now who actually needs who more? Haney has 147 pound belt.
JohnstonHOST
And they just sort of, the Belcher Vargas fight got overshadowed by those.
JohnstonHOST
And then obviously you had Kalitska and AJ and, Canelo and Danny Jacobs.
JohnstonHOST
There was so many fights that happened this year.
JohnstonHOST
Santa Cruz and Cole Frampton, I believe, also happened in 2017.
SeanAUDIENCE
Yeah, he had like six fights
Nestor GibbsHOST
with Daniel Jacobs and dropped him like five times at 65, also beat Usyk at 65.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Sean Porter is an amateur and welterweight legend, in my opinion.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Two-time welterweight champion in that era, that's tough to do.
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Nestor GibbsHOST
He did achieve, but again, Porter's the best amateur y'all had.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Because Thurman lost to Andre repeatedly.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Thurman, Porter dropped Daniel Jacobs and beat him at 65 repeatedly.
Nestor GibbsHOST
Beat Usyk at 65 repeatedly.