Jacobs faces $ 1M penalty and 3 1/2 pounds overweight on second weigh-in

By Keith Idec

LAS VEGAS – Eddie Hearn was not joking.

Daniel Jacobs' promoter suggested on Wednesday that Jacobs could ignore the 170-pound limit for his second day of weighing the morning of his fight against Canelo Alvarez. The harsh penalty – $ 250,000 per pound out of $ 170 – was deemed prohibitive, but Hearn said weighing more than 170 pounds Saturday morning would not cost Jacobs his average weight or prevent the fight from taking place.

These financial ramifications apparently did not deter Jacobs.

Oscar De La Hoya, Alvarez's promoter, told ESPN.com that Jacobs weighed 173.6 pounds when weighing the second day. Alvarez, according to De La Hoya, weighed 169 pounds.

A strict confidentiality agreement between the two sides was supposed to prevent both sides from revealing what Alvarez and Jacobs weighed in on Saturday morning. It is unclear whether De La Hoya will have to pay a penalty for disclosing the weights or, if so, how much it will cost the Golden Boy Promotions.

Whatever the case may be, Jacobs weighing 3 and a half pounds more than what was expected in their contracts will not prevent their unification bout of 12 rounds of 160 pounds taking place Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena. Under the terms of his contract, this 3 and a half pounds should cost Jacobs a million dollars, because an ounce of more than 3 pounds would count for 4 pounds.

Jacobs' stock market is just over eight digits, although it is listed at $ 2.5 million in its contract with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Alvarez's NSAC contract provides for a $ 35 million grant.

Jacobs officially weighed 160 pounds on Friday at the T-Mobile Arena. Alvarez broke the NSAC barrier at £ 159.

Alvarez's team demanded the weighing of the second day while negotiating for their title unification bout at the middleweights because of the advantage of Jacobs' size.

The Alvarez 5-foot-8 (51-1-2, 35 KO) is four inches shorter than Jacobs (35-2, 29 KO's). Alvarez returned to the Jacobs' middleweight division after defeating Englishman Rocky Fielding by third-round knockout in his WBA Super Middleweight World Championship match on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York.

Former middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin and his team accused Jacobs of gaining an unfair advantage when he missed the weigh-in on the second day of the IBF the morning of their March 2017 fight at Madison Square Garden. The Brooklyn Jacobs never intended to witness the weigh-in on the second day, but his team did not alert the Golovkin handlers until he appeared.

Jacobs has since won the IBF middleweight title, but the weighing rule for the second day of the New Jersey sanctioning organization is not in effect for his fight against Alvarez because it's a fight for 'unification. Mexico's Alvarez owns the WBA and WBC middleweight championships, two of which Jacobs fought for Golovkin.

Jacobs, 32, told a group of journalists on Tuesday at the MGM Grand that he expected to weigh a maximum of 175 pounds when he would enter the ring on Saturday night to face Alvarez. This would limit him to gain only 1.5 kg during the approximately 12 hours between the weighing of the second day and the beginning of their fight.

Keith Idec is a senior writer / columnist for BoxingScene.com. You can contact him on Twitter @ Idecboxing.