Unbeaten tremendous middleweight contender Christian Mbilli will take a giant step up in competitors towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko this summer time on August seventeenth, stay on ESPN, in a ten-round battle on the Videotron Centre in Quebec Metropolis, Canada.
A Step Up in Competitors for Mbilli
That is arguably the primary true world-class contender the 29-year-old Canadian-based Mbilli (27-0, 23 KOs) can have confronted, and it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see if he’s as much as the duty towards ‘The Technician’ Derevyanchenko (20-5, 10 KOs).
The Mbilli vs. Derevyanchenko occasion will probably be proven on ESPN at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT and on Sky Sports activities within the UK.
It is a battle that #1 WBC Mbilli must win to remain in place to problem for a world title towards WBA/WBC/WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez.
Derevyanchenko, 38, has fought for world titles on three events, dropping to Gennadiy Golovkin, Jermall Charlo, and Daniel Jacobs.
The ‘Technician’ Derevyanchenko fought effectively sufficient to deserve victories in two of these fights towards Jacobs and Golovkin however wasn’t given the good thing about the doubt.
That’s been the story of his profession; Derevyanchenko has additionally been on the quick finish of the stick in questionable defeats towards Jaime Munguia and Carlos Adames. I had Derevyanchenko beating each of these guys, and plenty of followers did as effectively.
The one true defeat on Derevyanchenko’s ten-year skilled resume got here towards Jermall Charlo in September 2020. Aside from that, Derevyanchenko arguably deserved wins within the different 4 fights he misplaced. Jermall hasn’t been the identical fighter for the reason that Derevyanchenko battle, and that’s attention-grabbing to notice. That was the downfall for the fighter.
“I made the choice to maneuver as much as 168 to win a world title. Throughout my whole profession, I’ve at all times fought the very best on the earth, and on August 17, it is going to be no completely different,” Derevyanchenko stated. “I’m preventing a tricky opponent in Christian Mbilli, who’s ranked No. 1 within the WBC. If I win this battle, I anticipate to battle for a world title subsequent.”
Derevyanchenko’s upsetting Mbilli to get a title shot towards Canelo can be a large profession turnaround for the 2008 Ukrainian Olympian. Some see Mbilli as a future world champion, however he’s by no means confronted anybody close to ok to know for positive.
Christian Mbilli’s Untested Rise
Latest wins:
Mark Heffron
Rohan Murdock
Demond Nicholson
Carlos Gongora
Vaughn Alexander
Like I stated, Mbilli is untested as a professional, and can face his first true world-level contender when he meets Derevyanchenko. Mbilli didn’t look good towards Murdock, who was a second-tier fighter. If Mbilli fights like that towards Derevyanchenko, he’ll lose.
Hopefully, we don’t see Derevyanchenko dropping a controversial resolution as a result of he’s preventing the closely hyped Mbilli in his yard in Quebec Metropolis, and he’s been picked out to offer him some credibility.
