Danny Jacobs is just one of the many men who has failed to get the better of Saul ‘Canelo‘ Alvarez in the ring.
The pair fought back in December 2019 for three of the four major middleweight titles. Jacobs already held the IBF belt having beaten Sergiy Derevyanchenko the year before after previously getting the best of the likes of Caleb Truax, Peter Quillan and Sergio Mora. He had, however, come unstuck against Gennadiy Golovkin in a fight in 2017.
At the time, Alvarez was freely moving up and down the weights: before fighting Jacobs he defeated Rocky Fielding for the WBA super middleweight title and after the win he went up to light heavyweight to defeat Sergey Kovalev for WBO honours.
Canelo is the current undisputed super middleweight champion who is currently being called out for a fight with former two-weight undisputed champion Terence Crawford despite the big gulf in weight.
Speaking to Fight Hub TV, Jacobs gave his view on that potential contest ahead of Crawford first stepping up to 154 lbs for the first time to take on Israil Madrimov.
“Skills sometimes pay the bills. We know for sure that Crawford has the skills over Canelo it’s just that sometimes power, weight and experience have a factor in that.
So it’ll be a good test for Crawford but I’m a fan, the fans are the winner in that fight if it pans out. Crawford got a tough one coming up now but I will be there on the night supporting them in that.”
