Sergiy Derevyanchenko: record, next fight and profile →
Sergiy Derevyanchenko is confident that he’ll eventually get a shot at Jermall Charlo. Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko is the WBC’s number one challenger for Charlo’s 160-pound championship. Mauricio Sulaiman, the WBC’s president, informed BoxingScene.com recently that Derevyanchenko still hasn’t been declared Charlo’s mandatory challenger, which means Charlo isn’t obligated to face Derevyanchenko next.
Ivan Golub comes from a school of boxing unlike many can imagine. The now Brooklyn based welterweight, who's career is guided by managerial company Split-T management and promoter Lou DiBella, is a product of the famed Ukrainian amateur setup that includes world champions Vasyl Lomachenko, Oleksandr Usyk, Oleksander Gvozdyk, and stablemate Sergiy Dereyvanchenko.
Johnathon Banks is one of the fighters who not only shined in the ring as a fighter, winning the IBO world title at cruiserweight prior to a run at heavyweight, but also as a trainer in the corner, guiding the likes of former unified world champion Wladimir Klitschko and now heads up a stable of fighters that includes IBF and IBO world middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin and former WBC world champion Badou Jack.
Sergiy Derevyanchenko still has his sights set on world titles in 2020, despite the COVID-19 outbreak putting a temporary halt on his progression towards the world title. Derevyanchenko had arrived back Andre Rozier's Team Havoc's Brooklyn base in mid-February to begin training for a return in the middle of the year and had been sparring with the likes of highly-rated New Yorkers Edgar Berlanga, Joe Williams and Marcus Browne amongst other talents emerging from Andre Rozier's stable as well as Staten Island-based Gary Stark Sr's sister stable.
Demetrius Andrade is more interested in facing Canelo Alvarez, Gennadiy Golovkin or Jermall Charlo in higher-profile fights. But after defeating Walter Kautondokwa, Artur Akavov, Maciej Sulecki and Luke Keeler in his past four appearances, Andrade also would welcome a tough test against an opponent some middleweights won’t box. The unbeaten WBO middleweight champion discussed a possible voluntary title defense against Sergiy Derevyanchenko during an Instagram Live interview with promoter Eddie Hearn.
By Keith Idec - Gennadiy Golovkin admits he thought he’d be in for a short, easy night when he sent Sergiy Derevyanchenko to the canvas with just over a minute to go in the first round of their middleweight title fight. Golovkin had no idea then that he was about to engage in the most grueling fight of his celebrated career. A determined Derevyanchenko and a gritty...
Abel Sanchez, the former longtime trainer of IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin, is not surprised that his former student is not exactly showing any new wrinkles in his game. Earlier this year, Sanchez and Golovkin had a tense parting of ways - after being unable to agree to a new financial agreement. Sanchez claimed that he was offered a significant cut in pay.
Sergiy Derevyanchenko gave the new IBF and IBO world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin arguably the toughest night of his professional career on October 5 at the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden, with the Ukrainian narrowly and many would say controversially missing out on becoming unified world champion himself.
He may not care to ever again do business with him, but Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez still takes an interest in the career of his old ring rival Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin. The reigning World middleweight champion was an interested observer for Golovkin’s return to the title stage, where he began a second title reign following a hard fought 12 round decision over Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
By Keith Idec - Gennadiy Golovkin agreed to the most sensible solution following his unconvincing victory against Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Golovkin knows he didn’t defeat Derevyanchenko definitively, just like there wasn’t a clear winner when he and Canelo Alvarez fought the second time a year earlier. That’s why when DAZN’s Chris Mannix...