Comments Thread For: Derevyanchenko Batters Tureano Johnson For TKO in Twelve

[HAMMER77777]

Completely agree.
If you'd just seen the stoppage I get some could think it was early but surely nobody that watched the whole fight is too ar5ed about it?
Competitive but ultimately he took a hammering over 11 and a half rounds.

Agreed, brother!

[Andrij]

Lemieux doesn't have to look any further ... Derevyanchenko vs Lemieux becomes a logic fight before GGG...

Why should Derevyanchenko fight Lemieux when he is already IBF mandatory ?? Why risking that ??

[Diego Rodriguez]

Good fight. Johnson did his best. The Ukrainian is strong, but nothing special. He should step up his game from here on out.

Agree 100%. Good fighter but not special IMO. Johnson is pretty tough but not very skilled. Took too many punches.

Same advice for the Ukrainian as Charlo, needs to keep fighting while waiting for Golovkin-Canelo. In fact that would be a good fight to make, I'd take Charlo to win but fight would go distance.

[Santa_]

Hmm, Johnson didn't look out on his feet when he popped up. An 8 count would have been nice.

[The Hammer]

Full fight:

[Boxing Logic]

Well, I was 0-2 in the fighters I was pulling for (Johnson and Aleem), so it goes. Derevyanchenko looked solid and battered Reno for 10+ rounds. I kept waiting for Derevyanchenko to start to gas but it didn't really happen. Reno is tough as nails to go through that punishment, I really felt bad for him after getting stopped in the final round. Derevyanchenko is skilled and tough, I wonder if his power is elite or if it was Johnson's will that kept him from falling from all of those clean punches landed. I have the feeling that a skilled boxer could outpoint Derevyanchenko. Would love to see him in there against GGG, Canelo or Danny Jacobs.

This seemed like one of those no drug testing fights. I rarely ever see fighters on VADA able to go non-stop like that for 12 rounds, and yet in this fight, both fighters were able to, for the most part. Makes me wonder if neither had any testing and they were both able to use whatever they wanted all camp for stamina.

[Boxing Logic]

Lemieux-Dereyvanchenko does not interest me as much as it should. You can say it will be a great action fight but one of them might get starched after 2 rounds. It sounds like Lemieux-Stevens 2.0 to me. Solid fight, but I think either of them against Jermall Charlo is more intriguing. Lemieux-Dereyvanchenko is just an action fight, whereas either vs Charlo is not only an action fight, but Charlo's first test at 160, and a better style clash, given Charlo's length and speed.

This is how 160 should end the year:

Jacobs-Saunders
Lemieux-Cotto
Charlo-Derevyanchenko

[Boxing Logic]

Except on second thought, Derevyanchenko shouldn't end the year in the ring against anyone. He should fight in April at the earliest IMO, which means he starts training in only six months Feburary, which means he better not do any sparring the first 5 weeks of training either. After a fight like that he should give his brain a six month rest if not 9-12 months (Just guessing Im no doctor).

[The Hammer]

Except on second thought, Derevyanchenko shouldn't end the year in the ring against anyone. He should fight in April at the earliest IMO, which means he starts training in only six months Feburary, which means he better not do any sparring the first 5 weeks of training either. After a fight like that he should give his brain a six month rest if not 9-12 months (Just guessing Im no doctor).

Yes, he should take a few months off, but fight again in February, not April.

Poor Johnson should take about 9 or 10 months off to fully recover, he took a horrific beating in there.

[Dasmius Shinobi]

Defending a point

Yes, he should take a few months off, but fight again in February, not April.

Poor Johnson should take about 9 or 10 months off to fully recover, he took a horrific beating in there.

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I am sorry; but, I agree with Boxing Logic here. Derevyanchenko have to take minimum, 6 month of rest to recover his brain and punch resistance and fight a 2nd tier fighter or stay busy fight, then fight the the winner of Canelo/Golovkin. If Derevyanchenko fight Lemieux, Jacobs, Jermall Charlo and Golovkin/Canelo, they are going to TKO/KO him easily, because of lower punch resistance after coming of a war with Tureano Johnson. I agree with Freedom2111 about Johnson having a rest of 9 or 10 months after that TKO.