Sergiy Derevyanchenko: record, next fight and profile →
LOS ANGELES – Gervonta Davis apparently has learned how to make weight more comfortably over the past couple years. The undefeated knockout artist hasn’t grasped, though, how to avoid putting his hands on his opponent at a weigh-in. Davis shoved Isaac Cruz following a lengthy staring contest once they both made weight Saturday afternoon for their 12-round lightweight title fight Sunday night.
On Sunday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, hard-hitting middleweight contenders Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Carlos Adames will square off in a high-stakes battle where the winner will move ahead to a potential title shot in 2022. The fight will be part of the Showtime pay-per-view undercard to the lightweight clash between Gervonta Davis and Isaac Cruz.
Derevyanchenko, Adames Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - Fighters competing on the Gervonta Davis vs. Isaac Cruz SHOWTIME PPV undercard taking place this Sunday, December 5 (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) previewed their respective showdowns during a press conference Friday before they enter the ring in a Premier Boxing Champions event from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Jaime Munguia will aim for the top in 2022, with names on his radar such as Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Gennadiy Golovkin, but before that happens, promoter Fernando Beltran of Zanfer Promotions, confessed that the undefeated Tijuana native will have a stop in the Mexican capital first. in the month of February.
Jaime Munguia will know his next opponent by the first week of December. By that time, an intriguing matchup will have taken place between Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Carlos Adames. The winner of that bout will be ordered by the WBC to next face Tijuana’s Munguia to determine the mandatory challenger for current WBC middleweight titlist Jermall Charlo.
Rising super welterweight star Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora will square off against fellow unbeaten Sergio Garcia in a WBC Super Welterweight World Title Eliminator that serves as the co-main event of the Gervonta Davis vs. Isaac Cruz SHOWTIME PPV on Sunday, December 5 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Jaime Munguia fully expects to soon enter the middleweight title picture. It won’t happen in the immediate future, though also not too far beyond that point. Despite being named in an ordered WBC title eliminator with Sergey Derevyanchenko, Tijuana’s Munguia (37-0, 30KOs) awaits a fight date with a long-discussed showdown versus Philadelphia’s 'King' Gabriel Rosado (26-13-1, 15KOs). BoxingScene.com has learned that plans remain in place to headline a DAZN show in late October, with October 23 mentioned as a possibility.
Earlier this week, the World Boxing Council ordered a middleweight world title eliminator between Mexico's Jaime Munguia and Ukrainian Olympian Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
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Saturday’s CHARLO DOUBLEHEADER main events featuring the world champion Charlo twins will air on SHOWTIME this Saturday, October 3 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. WBC Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo passed his toughest test to date with high marks, earning a skilled and disciplined unanimous decision victory over Sergiy Derevyanchenko while twin brother Jermell Charlo unified the WBC, WBA and IBF 154-pound titles with a spectacular knockout against Jeison Rosario.