Lowkey Dibella got a nice stable
10/27 HBO "End of an Era" Daniel Jacobs vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko (vacant IBF Middleweight Title)
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Bigblackted4
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He does they should just give him once a month for shoebox and he can have some very nice cards.
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Slightly pick Jacobs cause he is a smart all arounder who seems to fight up to the level of his opponent and he knows Derevyanchenko well but Derevyanchenko is a very live dog and I wouldn't be surprised if he would win this either.
Derevyanchenko is a part of this Ukrainian new wave who do the Loma like dazzling footwork. Not on the level of Loma or Usky but dude is good nevertheless.
Derevyanchenko is a part of this Ukrainian new wave who do the Loma like dazzling footwork. Not on the level of Loma or Usky but dude is good nevertheless.
Bigblackted4
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I thought he was working with Algeri
Knicksman20
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Jacobs: I Don't Think Charlo Would Fight Me; I Tamed That Lion
@krackdagawd
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs is fully focused on what figures to be a very difficult fight against Sergiy Derevyanchenko on Saturday night.
Jacobs didn’t hesitate when the conversation turned toward Jermall Charlo, however, to make it clear he doesn’t think the WBC’s interim middleweight champion will fight him anytime soon.
If Jacobs defeats Derevyanchenko and Charlo beats Willie Monroe Jr. on December 22, they theoretically could meet in what would be an intriguing middleweight championship match in 2019.
A victory over Derevyanchenko also could leave Jacobs in prime position to challenge Canelo Alvarez on May 4. Even if that lucrative, preferable fight didn’t materialize for Jacobs, he can’t see Charlo agreeing to fight him.
“I don’t think he would take it because you’ve gotta understand, the proof is in the pudding,” Jacobs told BoxingScene.com before a press conference Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. “He called me out, or he said a couple things about me. And then once I retaliated, you heard no more. When’s the last time you heard Jermall Charlo say something about Daniel Jacobs. Whereas before I tamed the lion, there was a whole bunch of bark in the jungle. Now the jungle is deserted, with nothing but birds, nothing but giraffes and mermaids. And mermaids don’t even live in the jungle.”
Jacobs jokingly referred to “Lions Only,” the mantra of Jermall Charlo and his twin brother, Jermell Charlo, the WBC super welterweight champion. Brooklyn’s Jacobs also alluded to confronting Jermall Charlo in a Barclays Center hallway after a March 3 card to discuss Charlo’s comments about him (Jermall Charlo: Daniel Jacobs Confronting Me Was Just an Act).
“You never heard anything after that, especially not a call-out,” Jacobs said. “In fact, what you heard was him say, ‘Well, the Jacobs fight will come. It’s not gonna come now. It’s gonna come in the future. I’m not saying how far, but once my career is up, that fight is gonna happen.’ You can’t go from A to B like that, so that’s that.”
Houston’s Jermall Charlo (27-0, 21 KOs) is heavily favored to beat Monroe (23-3, 6 KOs), of Rochester, New York, in a fight FOX will televise from Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 22. Jermell Charlo (31-0, 15 KOs) is set to battle Detroit’s Tony Harrison (27-2, 21 KOs) on that same card.
A press conference is scheduled for Thursday at Barclays Center to officially announce FOX’s December 22 show.
Monroe can box, but he isn’t a big puncher and has been stopped by Gennady Golovkin and out-boxed by Billy Joe Saunders in his two middleweight title fights. Jacobs predicted Jermall Charlo will win, but he also expected the former IBF junior middleweight champion to box a more imposing opponent in his next fight.
“He’s considering himself one of the best or one of the most feared in the division,” Jacobs said. “And, you know, take nothing away from Willie Monroe, but you’ve gotta understand that if you’re gonna claim this title, you’ve gotta fight somebody at least that the fans can say is a 50-50 fight. And I don’t know if the fans will say that this is a 50-50 fight. I believe that he’ll still have trouble with Willie Monroe, because his feet aren’t that educated, in my opinion. But his power is really good and he’s vicious when it comes to being inside that ring, so he comes forward.
“But if Willie Monroe can truly be himself and do the things that he wants to do and moves and gets that good feel, get that jab popping back and forth, I think it’ll be a competitive fight. If [Monroe] can protect himself and protect that chin, I think it’ll be an interesting fight and the fans will still be able to gauge where Jermall Charlo is in the middleweight division. So it’s not a real bad fight for me, but it’s a fight where if you’re gonna claim that title [as the best or most avoided], you’re gonna be like, ‘Come on, now.’ ”
Jacobs, meanwhile, is prepared for what seemingly will be the toughest of his three fights since narrowly losing a unanimous decision to Golovkin in March 2017 at Madison Square Garden. Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko doesn’t have much professional experience (12-0, 10 KOs), but he won 390 amateur fights, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and, like Jacobs and Jermall Charlo, is commonly considered one of the top six middleweights in boxing.
Derevyanchenko and Jacobs have sparred more than 300 rounds against each other, thus Jacobs is well aware of just how difficult their fight will be when they square off for the vacant IBF middleweight title.
“The proof has been in the pudding,” Jacobs said. “If you scratch out Sergio Mora, this will be my fifth undefeated fighter that I’m fighting in a row. And that speaks volumes because all of the guys that I’ve fought were good, undefeated guys, with good skills. Hey, I’m claiming to be the best. In order to do that, you’ve gotta fight the best.
“You can’t fight – and there’s no disrespect to any fighter out there – but you can’t fight guys who’ve been knocked out before. You can’t fight guys who have a losing record and then claim to be the No. 1 guy in the division or saying you’re avoided and all – no! You’ve gotta show and tell.”
Jacobs, 31, and Derevyanchenko, 32, will fight for the unclaimed middleweight title the IBF stripped from Golovkin on June 6.
The top-ranked Derevyanchenko was the mandatory challenger for Golovkin’s title. The IBF ordered a Derevyanchenko-Jacobs bout once it took its 160-pound championship from Golovkin for failing to adhere to the stipulations of the exception it granted him to make a voluntary defense against Vanes Martirosyan on May 5, rather than making a mandatory defense versus Derevyanchenko.
HBO will air Jacobs-Derevyanchenko as the main event of a “World Championship Boxing” tripleheader. The telecast is scheduled to start Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The three-bout broadcast also will include a 12-round, 130-pound championship match that’ll pit Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado (20-0, 16 KOs), the WBA world super featherweight champion, against Cleveland’s Yuandale Evans (20-1, 14 KOs). In the opener of HBO’s show, New York’s Heather Hardy (21-0, 4 KOs, 1 NC) will oppose Providence’s Shelly Vincent (23-1, 1 KO) in a 10-round rematch for the vacant WBO women’s featherweight title.
Danny really shut that shyt down after that confortation bro
@krackdagawd
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs is fully focused on what figures to be a very difficult fight against Sergiy Derevyanchenko on Saturday night.
Jacobs didn’t hesitate when the conversation turned toward Jermall Charlo, however, to make it clear he doesn’t think the WBC’s interim middleweight champion will fight him anytime soon.
If Jacobs defeats Derevyanchenko and Charlo beats Willie Monroe Jr. on December 22, they theoretically could meet in what would be an intriguing middleweight championship match in 2019.
A victory over Derevyanchenko also could leave Jacobs in prime position to challenge Canelo Alvarez on May 4. Even if that lucrative, preferable fight didn’t materialize for Jacobs, he can’t see Charlo agreeing to fight him.
“I don’t think he would take it because you’ve gotta understand, the proof is in the pudding,” Jacobs told BoxingScene.com before a press conference Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. “He called me out, or he said a couple things about me. And then once I retaliated, you heard no more. When’s the last time you heard Jermall Charlo say something about Daniel Jacobs. Whereas before I tamed the lion, there was a whole bunch of bark in the jungle. Now the jungle is deserted, with nothing but birds, nothing but giraffes and mermaids. And mermaids don’t even live in the jungle.”
Jacobs jokingly referred to “Lions Only,” the mantra of Jermall Charlo and his twin brother, Jermell Charlo, the WBC super welterweight champion. Brooklyn’s Jacobs also alluded to confronting Jermall Charlo in a Barclays Center hallway after a March 3 card to discuss Charlo’s comments about him (Jermall Charlo: Daniel Jacobs Confronting Me Was Just an Act).
“You never heard anything after that, especially not a call-out,” Jacobs said. “In fact, what you heard was him say, ‘Well, the Jacobs fight will come. It’s not gonna come now. It’s gonna come in the future. I’m not saying how far, but once my career is up, that fight is gonna happen.’ You can’t go from A to B like that, so that’s that.”
Houston’s Jermall Charlo (27-0, 21 KOs) is heavily favored to beat Monroe (23-3, 6 KOs), of Rochester, New York, in a fight FOX will televise from Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 22. Jermell Charlo (31-0, 15 KOs) is set to battle Detroit’s Tony Harrison (27-2, 21 KOs) on that same card.
A press conference is scheduled for Thursday at Barclays Center to officially announce FOX’s December 22 show.
Monroe can box, but he isn’t a big puncher and has been stopped by Gennady Golovkin and out-boxed by Billy Joe Saunders in his two middleweight title fights. Jacobs predicted Jermall Charlo will win, but he also expected the former IBF junior middleweight champion to box a more imposing opponent in his next fight.
“He’s considering himself one of the best or one of the most feared in the division,” Jacobs said. “And, you know, take nothing away from Willie Monroe, but you’ve gotta understand that if you’re gonna claim this title, you’ve gotta fight somebody at least that the fans can say is a 50-50 fight. And I don’t know if the fans will say that this is a 50-50 fight. I believe that he’ll still have trouble with Willie Monroe, because his feet aren’t that educated, in my opinion. But his power is really good and he’s vicious when it comes to being inside that ring, so he comes forward.
“But if Willie Monroe can truly be himself and do the things that he wants to do and moves and gets that good feel, get that jab popping back and forth, I think it’ll be a competitive fight. If [Monroe] can protect himself and protect that chin, I think it’ll be an interesting fight and the fans will still be able to gauge where Jermall Charlo is in the middleweight division. So it’s not a real bad fight for me, but it’s a fight where if you’re gonna claim that title [as the best or most avoided], you’re gonna be like, ‘Come on, now.’ ”
Jacobs, meanwhile, is prepared for what seemingly will be the toughest of his three fights since narrowly losing a unanimous decision to Golovkin in March 2017 at Madison Square Garden. Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko doesn’t have much professional experience (12-0, 10 KOs), but he won 390 amateur fights, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and, like Jacobs and Jermall Charlo, is commonly considered one of the top six middleweights in boxing.
Derevyanchenko and Jacobs have sparred more than 300 rounds against each other, thus Jacobs is well aware of just how difficult their fight will be when they square off for the vacant IBF middleweight title.
“The proof has been in the pudding,” Jacobs said. “If you scratch out Sergio Mora, this will be my fifth undefeated fighter that I’m fighting in a row. And that speaks volumes because all of the guys that I’ve fought were good, undefeated guys, with good skills. Hey, I’m claiming to be the best. In order to do that, you’ve gotta fight the best.
“You can’t fight – and there’s no disrespect to any fighter out there – but you can’t fight guys who’ve been knocked out before. You can’t fight guys who have a losing record and then claim to be the No. 1 guy in the division or saying you’re avoided and all – no! You’ve gotta show and tell.”
Jacobs, 31, and Derevyanchenko, 32, will fight for the unclaimed middleweight title the IBF stripped from Golovkin on June 6.
The top-ranked Derevyanchenko was the mandatory challenger for Golovkin’s title. The IBF ordered a Derevyanchenko-Jacobs bout once it took its 160-pound championship from Golovkin for failing to adhere to the stipulations of the exception it granted him to make a voluntary defense against Vanes Martirosyan on May 5, rather than making a mandatory defense versus Derevyanchenko.
HBO will air Jacobs-Derevyanchenko as the main event of a “World Championship Boxing” tripleheader. The telecast is scheduled to start Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The three-bout broadcast also will include a 12-round, 130-pound championship match that’ll pit Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado (20-0, 16 KOs), the WBA world super featherweight champion, against Cleveland’s Yuandale Evans (20-1, 14 KOs). In the opener of HBO’s show, New York’s Heather Hardy (21-0, 4 KOs, 1 NC) will oppose Providence’s Shelly Vincent (23-1, 1 KO) in a 10-round rematch for the vacant WBO women’s featherweight title.
Danny really shut that shyt down after that confortation bro
krackdagawd
Inspire.
Algieri Assesses Jacobs-Derevyanchenko Sparring Sessions
By Keith Idec
NEW YORK – Chris Algieri had an up-close view of many of the Daniel Jacobs-Sergiy Derevyanchenko sparring sessions.
Algieri, a nutritionist and assistant trainer for Jacobs the past couple years, came away from those countless battles with a unique understanding of just how competitive their IBF middleweight title fight will be Saturday night.
The former WBO junior welterweight champion slightly favors Jacobs, yet realizes Derevyanchenko is more than capable of winning their 12-round, 160-pound championship match in The Theater at Madison Square Garden (HBO).
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Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs) and Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs), who are managed and trained by the same men, have estimated that they’ve sparred more than 300 rounds since Derevyanchenko moved from Ukraine to Brooklyn four years ago. Some of their most spirited sparring took place during Jacobs’ training camp for his close loss to Gennady Golovkin in March 2017 at Madison Square Garden.
“We had Sergiy Derevyanchenko in camp for the Triple-G fight, so they sparred a lot,” said Algieri, who wrapped up camp recently with Jacobs in the Bay Area. “When you’ve got high-level sparring partners, there’s good days and bad days. There’s ups and there’s downs, and I’ve seen it go both ways. The thing I take from it is that this is a fight. This is by no means an easy fight or an easy way to a world title. This is a real fight and I expect this to be a great fight.”
Algieri considers the 6-feet Jacobs’ size and speed as advantages over the 5-feet-9 Derevyanchenko.
“On paper,” Algieri explained, “if you look at it, the things that Danny can do – the height advantage, the reach advantage, the speed advantage, the pro experience advantage, the big-fight experience, Danny’s ahead on all of those. So just on paper, Danny’s the leading man. And just from being on the inside and seeing it, I still favor Danny.”
Because they’ve spent so much time in the ring together, there’s not much Jacobs and Derevyanchenko don’t know about one another. In regard to Jacobs’ chances of winning, that doesn’t concern Algieri.
“I think with other guys, that would worry me,” said Algieri, who’ll end a 2½-year layoff November 30 against an undetermined opponent in Huntington, New York. “But Danny’s such a dynamic guy and he’s so reactive, and the way he fights, his style, is so fluid, knowing Danny isn’t really knowing Danny. So I’m not as concerned as I would be maybe for another fighter.”
The 32-year-old Derevyanchenko is expected to give Jacobs his toughest test since his loss to Golovkin, though Algieri thinks their fight will unfold differently than the Golovkin-Jacobs bout. Golovkin knocked down Jacobs in the fourth round of that middleweight title bout, but Jacobs came back to box well and lost by slim margins on all three scorecards (115-112, 115-112, 114-113).
“Derevyanchenko throws more punches, for sure, than Triple-G does,” Algieri said. “I don’t think he’s as big of a puncher as Triple-G, at all. And other than their physical size, I don’t think they have a lot in common. I don’t see a lot of similarities in their styles.”
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Lol...Jacobs: I Don't Think Charlo Would Fight Me; I Tamed That Lion
@krackdagawd
NEW YORK – Daniel Jacobs is fully focused on what figures to be a very difficult fight against Sergiy Derevyanchenko on Saturday night.
Jacobs didn’t hesitate when the conversation turned toward Jermall Charlo, however, to make it clear he doesn’t think the WBC’s interim middleweight champion will fight him anytime soon.
If Jacobs defeats Derevyanchenko and Charlo beats Willie Monroe Jr. on December 22, they theoretically could meet in what would be an intriguing middleweight championship match in 2019.
A victory over Derevyanchenko also could leave Jacobs in prime position to challenge Canelo Alvarez on May 4. Even if that lucrative, preferable fight didn’t materialize for Jacobs, he can’t see Charlo agreeing to fight him.
“I don’t think he would take it because you’ve gotta understand, the proof is in the pudding,” Jacobs told BoxingScene.com before a press conference Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. “He called me out, or he said a couple things about me. And then once I retaliated, you heard no more. When’s the last time you heard Jermall Charlo say something about Daniel Jacobs. Whereas before I tamed the lion, there was a whole bunch of bark in the jungle. Now the jungle is deserted, with nothing but birds, nothing but giraffes and mermaids. And mermaids don’t even live in the jungle.”
Jacobs jokingly referred to “Lions Only,” the mantra of Jermall Charlo and his twin brother, Jermell Charlo, the WBC super welterweight champion. Brooklyn’s Jacobs also alluded to confronting Jermall Charlo in a Barclays Center hallway after a March 3 card to discuss Charlo’s comments about him (Jermall Charlo: Daniel Jacobs Confronting Me Was Just an Act).
“You never heard anything after that, especially not a call-out,” Jacobs said. “In fact, what you heard was him say, ‘Well, the Jacobs fight will come. It’s not gonna come now. It’s gonna come in the future. I’m not saying how far, but once my career is up, that fight is gonna happen.’ You can’t go from A to B like that, so that’s that.”
Houston’s Jermall Charlo (27-0, 21 KOs) is heavily favored to beat Monroe (23-3, 6 KOs), of Rochester, New York, in a fight FOX will televise from Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 22. Jermell Charlo (31-0, 15 KOs) is set to battle Detroit’s Tony Harrison (27-2, 21 KOs) on that same card.
A press conference is scheduled for Thursday at Barclays Center to officially announce FOX’s December 22 show.
Monroe can box, but he isn’t a big puncher and has been stopped by Gennady Golovkin and out-boxed by Billy Joe Saunders in his two middleweight title fights. Jacobs predicted Jermall Charlo will win, but he also expected the former IBF junior middleweight champion to box a more imposing opponent in his next fight.
“He’s considering himself one of the best or one of the most feared in the division,” Jacobs said. “And, you know, take nothing away from Willie Monroe, but you’ve gotta understand that if you’re gonna claim this title, you’ve gotta fight somebody at least that the fans can say is a 50-50 fight. And I don’t know if the fans will say that this is a 50-50 fight. I believe that he’ll still have trouble with Willie Monroe, because his feet aren’t that educated, in my opinion. But his power is really good and he’s vicious when it comes to being inside that ring, so he comes forward.
“But if Willie Monroe can truly be himself and do the things that he wants to do and moves and gets that good feel, get that jab popping back and forth, I think it’ll be a competitive fight. If [Monroe] can protect himself and protect that chin, I think it’ll be an interesting fight and the fans will still be able to gauge where Jermall Charlo is in the middleweight division. So it’s not a real bad fight for me, but it’s a fight where if you’re gonna claim that title [as the best or most avoided], you’re gonna be like, ‘Come on, now.’ ”
Jacobs, meanwhile, is prepared for what seemingly will be the toughest of his three fights since narrowly losing a unanimous decision to Golovkin in March 2017 at Madison Square Garden. Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko doesn’t have much professional experience (12-0, 10 KOs), but he won 390 amateur fights, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and, like Jacobs and Jermall Charlo, is commonly considered one of the top six middleweights in boxing.
Derevyanchenko and Jacobs have sparred more than 300 rounds against each other, thus Jacobs is well aware of just how difficult their fight will be when they square off for the vacant IBF middleweight title.
“The proof has been in the pudding,” Jacobs said. “If you scratch out Sergio Mora, this will be my fifth undefeated fighter that I’m fighting in a row. And that speaks volumes because all of the guys that I’ve fought were good, undefeated guys, with good skills. Hey, I’m claiming to be the best. In order to do that, you’ve gotta fight the best.
“You can’t fight – and there’s no disrespect to any fighter out there – but you can’t fight guys who’ve been knocked out before. You can’t fight guys who have a losing record and then claim to be the No. 1 guy in the division or saying you’re avoided and all – no! You’ve gotta show and tell.”
Jacobs, 31, and Derevyanchenko, 32, will fight for the unclaimed middleweight title the IBF stripped from Golovkin on June 6.
The top-ranked Derevyanchenko was the mandatory challenger for Golovkin’s title. The IBF ordered a Derevyanchenko-Jacobs bout once it took its 160-pound championship from Golovkin for failing to adhere to the stipulations of the exception it granted him to make a voluntary defense against Vanes Martirosyan on May 5, rather than making a mandatory defense versus Derevyanchenko.
HBO will air Jacobs-Derevyanchenko as the main event of a “World Championship Boxing” tripleheader. The telecast is scheduled to start Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The three-bout broadcast also will include a 12-round, 130-pound championship match that’ll pit Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado (20-0, 16 KOs), the WBA world super featherweight champion, against Cleveland’s Yuandale Evans (20-1, 14 KOs). In the opener of HBO’s show, New York’s Heather Hardy (21-0, 4 KOs, 1 NC) will oppose Providence’s Shelly Vincent (23-1, 1 KO) in a 10-round rematch for the vacant WBO women’s featherweight title.
Danny really shut that shyt down after that confortation bro
man danny is juelzing hard about blowing that 2nd day weigh in...nikka knows exactly why he blew weight 
...i didnt hear or see that nonsense from lemieux when he went to unify against GGG
...i didnt hear or see that nonsense from lemieux when he went to unify against GGG Jacobs, Derevyanchenko Make Weight; Prep For 2nd IBF Weigh-In
By Keith Idec
Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Daniel Jacobs both made weight Friday for their IBF middleweight title fight.
Derevyanchenko knows, too, that he won’t be alone at the IBF’s second-day weigh-in Saturday morning. Jacobs skipped the IBF’s second-day weigh-in the last time he was supposed to fight for its middleweight title, but that was a strategic decision before he challenged Gennady Golovkin at Madison Square Garden in March 2017.
Jacobs also fought Golovkin for the WBA and WBC middleweight titles he then owned. He skipped that second trip to the scale so that he could add as much weight as he wanted following the New York State Athletic Commission’s weigh-in the morning before their 12-round fight.
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Brooklyn’s Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs) and Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs) will fight only for the IBF’s middleweight title, thus Jacobs obviously will adhere to the IBF’s second-day weigh-in rule. The 6-feet Jacobs officially weighed 159½ pounds Friday, slightly more than the 5-feet-9 Derevyanchenko (159¼).
Boxers who compete for IBF titles can add no more than 10 pounds above their division’s limit for the sanctioning organization’s second-day weigh-ins. They then can add as much weight as they see fit before they enter the ring.
“I have to make no adjustments,” Jacobs said regarding Saturday’s second-day weigh-in. “See, with the Triple-G fight, everybody thought that I purposely skipped the IBF [second-day] weigh-in. No, I knew that if I beat Triple-G, I’m the champion in everyone’s eyes, regardless of what belt [I would’ve won]. So I just wanted to make sure I got the proper rest. I [didn’t] have to stress about eating a little bit and then not making weight the next day.
“I mean, to me it’s like I’ve done it before and I can get it done. But with the Triple-G fight, the dynamic was completely different. With this fight, only the IBF belt is on the line, so I have to abide by the rules, which I’m 100-percent comfortable doing. It’s just at that time, I really wanted to get my rest and I figured if I beat Triple-G, I’m the champ in everybody’s eyes.”
Jacobs, 31, and Derevyanchenko, 32, will fight for the unclaimed middleweight title the IBF stripped from Golovkin on June 6.
The top-ranked Derevyanchenko was the mandatory challenger for Golovkin’s title when Golovkin was stripped. The IBF ordered a Derevyanchenko-Jacobs bout once it took its 160-pound championship from Golovkin for failing to adhere to the stipulations of the exception it granted him to make a voluntary defense against Vanes Martirosyan on May 5, rather than making a mandatory defense versus Derevyanchenko.
Jacobs-Derevyanchenko will headline HBO’s “World Championship Boxing” tripleheader Saturday night from The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The network’s three-bout broadcast is scheduled to start Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The four other fights scheduled to appear on HBO also made weight Friday.
Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado (20-0, 16 KOs) officially weighed 130 pounds for his WBA world super featherweight title defense against Yuandale Evans (20-1, 14 KOs). Cleveland’s Evans got on the NYSAC’s scale at 129¼ pounds.
New York’s Heather Hardy (21-0, 4 KOs, 1 NC) weighed in at 124½ pounds for her 10-round rematch with Shelly Vincent (23-1, 1 KO) for the vacant WBO women’s featherweight title. Vincent, of Providence, Rhode Island, officially weighed 125¼ pounds.
Hardy defeated Vincent by majority decision in their highly entertaining 10-rounder in August 2016 at Ford Amphitheater in Brooklyn.
Bigblackted4
Superstar
When you start your response with See, your telling a lieman danny is juelzing hard about blowing that 2nd day weigh in...nikka knows exactly why he blew weight
David_TheMan
Veteran
Yall knew what the deal was, why does it matter? He wasn't cheating.
