Gennady Golovkin v Sergiy Derevyanchenko: IBF middleweight championship – live!
- Golovkin meets Derevyanchenko for vacant IBF title in New York
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Junior middleweight pospect Israil Madrimov has just scored an emphatic fifth-round stoppage of Mexico’s Alejando Barrera in the final undercard bout of the night. Madrimov, who improves to 4-0 with four knockouts (in addition to a 6-1 mark in his World Series of Boxing pro bouts), dropped Barrera in the opening seconds and dominated every minute before referee Benjy Esteves put a stop to it at the 2:36 mark of the fifth round. A bit of grumbling from the crowd for what some viewed as a premature stoppage but better too soon than too late.
Hello and welcome to New York for tonight’s middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko. We’re ringside at the Garden for what promises to be an entertaining contest for the vacant IBF championship, even if it’s not the long-awaited third chapter between Golovkin and Canelo Álvarez.
As you may recall Golovkin suffered the lone blemishes on his pro ledger in a pair of close and controversial decisions opposite Álvarez, who’s appeared in no hurry to tee it up a third time (instead scaling two weight classes to fight Sergey Kovalev). That’s left Triple G to his own devices in the middleweight division he’s dominated for so long, first with a stay-busy fight against the overmatched Steve Rolls in June and now tonight in a contest that could prove far more tricky.
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