Christian Mbilli received a call over Sergiy Derevyanchenko tonight in Quebec Metropolis, retaining his undefeated document in addition to his title within the hopper to doubtlessly land a Canelo Alvarez struggle in 2025.
Mbilli (28-0, 23 KO) took the struggle on scores of 98-92, 99-91, and 100-90, however it needs to be famous that Derevyanchenko (15-6, 10 KO) suffered what seemed to be a torn biceps early within the bout, making him a one-handed, back-hand fighter.
Provided that limitation, the 38-year-old Derevyanchenko nonetheless boxed fairly properly, however it will be fairly not possible to offer him greater than two rounds of the struggle, which no choose did.
It does hinder, maybe, what we will have realized concerning the 29-year-old Mbilli, as a result of we simply didn’t get the most effective model of an aged Derevyanchenko tonight because of the harm.
Vianello dominates Makhmudov
A career-best efficiency for Italian heavyweight Guido Vianello, who utterly took Arslanbek Makhmudov aside and scored a stoppage on the very begin of the eighth spherical, when the ringside doctor lastly ran out of instances he might enable the bout to proceed with Makhmudov’s left eye overwhelmed shut.
Vianello (13-2-1, 11 KO) managed the lumbering Makhmudov (19-2, 18 KO) from the beginning and simply by no means let up, hammering the Russian-Canadian with good pictures with little or no apart from the thought of energy getting back from Makhmudov.
That is two losses in three fights for the 35-year-old Makhmudov, and each of them had been beatings that actually uncovered his limitations. For Vianello, he’ll hope this can be a new lease on his profession, and at age 30, the previous Olympian does nonetheless have time.
Radar: Osleys Iglesias
When you have a couple of minutes, it is best to hearth up your ESPN+ and take a look at Cuban tremendous middleweight Osleys Iglesias, who improved to 12-0 (11 KO) with a second spherical stoppage of Sena Agbeko.
No person’s going to argue that Agbeko (28-4, 22 KO) is a world-beater, however the Ghanaian veteran is a strong professional, and Iglesias’ heavy fingers had been simply means an excessive amount of for him, identical as occurred to Marcelo Coceres and Evgeny Shvedenko, each of whom Iglesias, 26, stopped in a single spherical.
That is somebody it is best to completely have in your radar proper now if you happen to don’t already. The one opponent to go the space with him to date is Isaac Chilemba again in 2022, and Chilemba is form of an professional survivor.
