Christian Mbilli (28-0, 23 KOs) outworked an injured Sergiy Derevyanchenko (15-6, 10 KOs), exploiting his injured left bicep to grind out a ten-round unanimous determination on Saturday evening of their headliner at tremendous middleweight on ESPN on the Videotron Centre in Quebec Metropolis, Quebec, Canada.
Derevyanchenko’s Early Promise Reduce Quick
Derevyanchenko boxed impressively for a 38, wanting extra like a fighter in his late 20s and displaying off his technical means. Late within the fourth, Derevyanchenko injured his left bicep whereas throwing a jab at Mbilli, and from that time, he was a one-armed fighter.
The scores have been 100-90, 99-91 and 98-92.
Tremendous middleweight isn’t Derevyanchenko’s weight class, as he’s fought his finest years at 160, and he was outsized by Mbilli tonight. The 2 fighters appeared a minimum of 10 to fifteen lbs aside in weight, with Mbilli, the pure 168-pounder, showing a lot greater than Derevyanchenko, who was combating two good arms.
After the harm within the fourth, Derevyanchenko used his proper arm as nicely, hitting Mbilli repeatedly with headshots and punches to the physique from the fifth, hurting him within the seventh spherical briefly.
Mbilli Capitalizes on the Harm
Nonetheless, having one arm towards a youthful, greater, stronger, and extra lively Mbilli proved to be an excessive amount of for Derevyanchenko, who wore down within the closing three rounds. Mbilli had a smile on his face as he attacked, and he appeared to be having fun with the chase.
Derevyanchenko’s coach, Andre Rozier, questioned whether or not he might proceed combating together with his harm after the eighth spherical, telling him that he would give him yet another spherical.
Derevyanchenko responded nicely within the ninth, touchdown a whole lot of clear pictures to the top of Mbilli, who was strolling ahead, consuming the whole lot he threw with out even making an attempt to get out of the best way of the punches.
Mbilli had come into the combat with a fame for having zero defensive expertise, and that proved to be the case tonight. He was getting hit with the whole lot Derevhyanchenko threw. He was fortunate to face an injured, smaller, older man who wasn’t an even bigger puncher.
Somebody like David Benavidez or the undercard fighter, the Cuban Osleys Iglesias, would have been an issue tonight for him.
