Golovkin meets Derevyanchenko for vacant IBF title in New YorkTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.59am BST
Hello and welcome to
New York for tonight’s middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko. We’re ringside at the Garden for what promises to be an entertaining for the vacant IBF championship, even if it’s not a long-awaited third chapter between Golovkin and Canelo Álvarez.
As you may recall Golovkin suffered the lone blemishes on his record in a pair of close and controversial decisions opposite Álvarez, who’s appeared in no hurry to tee it up a third time (instead scaling two weight classes to fight Sergey Kovalev). That’s left Triple G to his own devices in the middleweight division he’s dominated for so long, first with a stay-busy fight against the overmatched Steve Rolls in June and now tonight in a contest that could prove far more tricky. 2.27am BST
Bryan will be here shortly.