On 5 October in New York Gennady Golovkin faced Sergiy Derevyanchenko in the battle for the vacant IBF middleweight title. For Derevyanchenko it was a second chance to win the title in the meeting with GGG, he also received a record purse in his career of more than $5 million. For 37-year-old Golovkin it was a chance to show the fruits of working with a new coach, to regain the title and try to make money trilogy with Canelo Alvarez.
Gennady Golovkin (40-1-1, 35 KOs) scored in the close battle a difficult and controversial unanimous decision win over Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-2, 10 KOs) and captured the vacant IBF middleweight title in the main event of the evening at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York.
In the main event of evening in Brovary, Ukraine, Denys Berinchyk (12-0, 7 KOs) scored a lopsided victory by unanimous decision over Patricio Moreno Lopez (26-4, 19 KOs), defending his WBO International lightweight title.
A live webcast of the boxing evening from Brovary, in the main event of which 2012 Olympic silver medalist Denys Berinchyk will face the Mexican Patricio Lopez Moreno.
A live webcast of the boxing evening in New York where Gennady Golovkin will face Sergiy Derevyanchenko for the vacant middleweight title.
When Adonis Stevenson got on the surgery with severe brain injuries after his December fight with Oleksandr Gvozdyk, there was a risk that Superman will never be able to walk and talk, even in the case if he stays alive. However, the process of rehabilitation of the former WBC light heavyweight champion shows still very good dynamics. The Canadian invited the media into his boxing gym, where for the first time after a duel with Gvozdyk he showed that he already can conduct light boxing trainings.
Gennady Golovkin (39-1-1, 35 KOs) and Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10 KOs) went the officially weigh-in procedure on the eve of their fight on 5 October in New York for the vacant middleweight title. Golovkin was 159.2 pounds, Derevyanchenko was 159 pounds. The official part of the weigh-in was close, later fighters took part in the show for fans and journalists.
All doping tests, which Tyson Fury (29-1, 20 KOs) and Otto Wallin (20-0, 13 KOs) had before and after the fight, returned negative. The duel between the Englishman and the Swede became the main event of the evening of boxing on September 14 in Las Vegas.
Evander Holyfield is likely to go in the footsteps of Floyd Mayweather and perform at a show in Japan. Mayweather in December 2018 earned an impressive money for such an event, and quickly destroyed Tensin Natsukawa.
At the turn of April and May, immediately after a positive doping test of Jarrell Miller when the search for a worthy opponent for Anthony Joshua began, Luis Ortiz (31-1, 26 KOs) has been one of the many who received a tempting in financial terms offer. The Cuban then declined, but as it turned out, he didn't lost much in financial terms.
