Gennady Golovkin, team happy to have finalized fight with Daniel Jacobs

— -- LOS ANGELES -- K2 Promotions managing director Tom Loeffler was very relieved as he strode into a downtown hotel with Gennady Golovkin and trainer Abel Sanchez last Saturday. They had come to meet with a few media members for lunch shortly before the start of the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Smith Jr. card at The Forum.

Loeffler was thrilled that he had, at long last, finalized a deal for unified middleweight titleholder Golovkin to face secondary titleholder and mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs on March 18 (HBO PPV) at Madison Square Garden in New York, an arena that Golovkin has sold out and one that is also in Jacobs' hometown.

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