Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
By Thomas Gerbasi - This weekend’s goal is clear for Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Beat one of the best fighters in the sport - Gennadiy Golovkin - and leave Madison Square Garden with a pair of middleweight title belts. And while it wouldn’t be fair – or accurate – to say that Derevyanchenko’s trainer Andre Rozier is even more...
Andre Rozier believes he found the secret to help his charge, middleweight contender Sergiy ‘The Technician’ Derevyanchenko withstand the punching power of Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin. “You take your fighter, bang his head against a cinder block and let him know that his head is tough,” the Brooklyn-based trainer quipped of his pre-fight preparation for this weekend’s vacant middleweight title fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City (Saturday. DAZN, 9:00pm ET).
Sergiy Derevyanchenko training, open workout photos gallery - Gennadiy Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko will clash for the vacant IBF World Middleweight title on Saturday October 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York, live on DAZN, in a fight brought to you by GGG Promotions and Matchroom Boxing USA in association with DiBella Entertainment. (photos by Ed Mulholland)
Golovkin training, open workout photos gallery - Gennadiy Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko will clash for the vacant IBF World Middleweight title on Saturday October 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York, live on DAZN, in a fight brought to you by GGG Promotions and Matchroom Boxing USA in association with DiBella Entertainment. (photos by Ed Mulholland)
Sergiy Derevyanchenko is back in New York as fight week begins for his career-defining fight with Gennady Golovkin, which will see the IBF and IBO titles on the line for the Eastern European natives this coming Saturday at the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden.
Gennadiy Golovkin is anticipating a better version of Sergiy Derevyanchenko than the one who showed up for his first title fight last year. The fact that a middleweight title is at stake doesn’t at all change that perception, nor the fight night approach taken by the former unified titlist.
Edgar Berlenga is looking to build on his explosive start to life in the paid ranks and he sets his sights on fight dates in Florida and New York before 2019 is concluded. Berlenga, who hails from New York, however, stays close to his Puerto Rican roots recently announced that he had linked up famed trainer Andre Rozier which has led Berlenga to Northern California in the camp of world title challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Dereyvyanchenko has held camp between the state of the art SNAC facility in the Bay Area and the Aloha Boxing Club with Berlenga being an integral part of the camp, acting as a sparring partner for the Ukrainian who squares off against Gennady Golovkin on October 5.
Gennady Golovkin is setting out to regain a title he held for over half a decade as it has been revealed that the Kazak's showdown with Ukranian standout Sergiy Dereyvanchenko will also be for the IBO world middleweight title. The vacant IBF title is also at stake.
Gennadiy Golovkin has known of Sergiy Derevyanchenko for more than a decade. He doesn’t expect any past—or lesser—version to show up for their upcoming fight. “I know him, I remember him from 2008, he represented the national Ukraine team,” Kazakhstan’s Golovkin (39-1-1, 35KOs) noted of his forthcoming rival, whom he will face for a vacant title on Oct. 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “He came to Germany for sparring. He came to Kazakhstan for the World Series of Boxing (2012-14). He looks good.”
There was a time when you couldn’t get out of the way of a story involving Gennadiy Golovkin, whether he was preparing for a fight or simply enjoying a leisurely jog. It’s a brave new world in the career of the former middleweight titlist, whose last two scheduled fights have managed to fly well under the radar. Included in that lot is his Oct. 5 vacant title fight versus Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10KOs), which takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.