Comments Thread For: DiBella: If GGG Won't Fight Derevyanchenko, Must Give Up IBF Belt

[BLASTER1]

I concur to the consensus.
GGG needs to fight this guy for his next fight.
Anyone else is just pathetic besides maybe Andrade.

[minemax]

Dare-ev-yan-chenko

Not "dare", it's just "de rev" — De-rev-YAN-chenko.

[satiev1]

If money isn't an issue no excuses not to fight your mandatory.

[BoxingIsGreat]

I don't like Lou but good for him on this one. Good for him. Sick of GGG's team BS. Put them to the test. Were you lying the whole time about "all the belts"? Sure seems like it! Well, now we get to find out for good.

Good post, and concise! Now you are seeing the light. Green K.

[minemax]

Sergiy should fight Andrade first.

Sergiy is free to fight whoever he wants at this point. Because he has deserved this opportunity fighting in the ring and moving up the IBF rankings.
And Andrade was just busy in the social media...

[BoxingIsGreat]

Sergiy should fight Andrade first.

Why? He's GGG's mandatory.

[Rock&Roll]

I want GGG to fight Dchenko like everyone else.

I, like EVERYONE else here, know F-CK ALL about the negotiations and demands going on behind the scenes.

It took team GGG 3-4 months to negotiate with Keith Connolly for Jacobs, missing a fight in Dec and having to overpay him. How the hell are they going to pull this negotiation off in a week?

"He can give up the IBF belt, or he can fight Sergey next. But he can’t avoid Sergey now, and wait for Canelo. I’m very confident in my legal stance on that! If he tries to go straight to Canelo in September, and sit out, Team Derevyanchenko is ready to take legal action. I’m very comfortable in our legal position as far Sergey being owed the fight next.”
-keith connelly

Given the leverage they have, and with only 3 weeks until fight date, i know which side of the negotiating table i would prefer to be sitting on. Bet they are demanding $1.5 mil for Dchenko.

[twosweethooks]

So strip GGG because Canelo is a sorry drug user !

Y’all need to settle down but that’s like trying to make a deal with a tiger when your head is in its Mouth!!!

The promotion won’t be there for the fight with Lou’s man in such a short time! These men are fighting for money . GGG is walking into the twilight of boxing years left and DESERVES better so they will come up with a fight , GGG will make peanuts because drug Mang BLEW the big fight!!

Who knows if drug Mang will fight GGG in the fall??!!

Give it a rest ! But knowing you children it’s still the tiger thang so go ahead and rip away hahahaha

[Street15]

This is connolly and Lou saying he SHOULD be stripped of his belts. Yet, if the IBF themselves haven't mandated this fight, then they don't have a leg to stand on - and Gennady is free to fight a voluntary. When or if they do, then this fight shall proceed. Sergiy will have to realize that he will be getting "short notice opponent" money though. They have to accept that.

[JK Boxing]

If they want to fight GGG so bad then take a money whatever is available for now. You can get both at the same time.