Sergiy Derevyanchenko versus GGG, His Second Shot For an IBF Crown.
BY Scottie “The Context” White
“Big Drama Show” a powerful motivating factor isn’t it. When Gennady Golovkin 39-1-1 (35KOs) reigned as the unified middleweight champion, he refused to ink his commitment for a showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko 13-1 (10KOs) – the IBF mandatory challenger at the time.
So 360 in full rotation, Canelo situation is a similar epiphany having his IBF title stripped from the same team of insurgency. Now Derevyanchenko versus GGG for the IBF middleweight title is calendar for 5 October. Like many, I’m bewildered about this match up a bit, Derevyanchenko has no other choice but to defeat the former unified champ GGG or uber a five star camp site to wait for another shot in the foreseeable future.
All the applicable actions, the administrative logistics and keeping the heat on the sanction body, Derevyanchenko truly needs a winning result this time. His next opponent isn’t Jacobs, the pressure is different and GGG has a mental droid deflection for walking through punches to his seek and destroy manifest.
Derevyanchenko SD lose to Daniel Jacobs for the vacant IBF title was back in 10/2018 and kudos to a soft ranking system permitting him to buoy atop the division for another mandatory ticket.
There should be a glowing asterisk next to Jacobs name as easily the best opposition registered inside Derevyanchenko 14-fight ledger. What a unique parallel to have in such a brief tenure, Derevyanchenko will be just short of a year in losing to Jacobs when he enters Madison Square Garden, New York this October. GGG will be the second former IBF world champion Derevyanchenko has faced inside of 12 months. Do or Die for this Ukraine contender, he’s 33 years old competing in a sport where time waits for no man.
Though predictions are fairly simply for readers digest, but getting the knock out is inconsistent like a pair of Margarito hand-wraps. GGG by Decision.
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