Christian Mbilli gained a call over Sergiy Derevyanchenko tonight in Quebec Metropolis, conserving his undefeated report in addition to his identify within the hopper to probably land a Canelo Alvarez combat in 2025.
Mbilli (28-0, 23 KO) took the combat on scores of 98-92, 99-91, and 100-90, but it surely 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.
On condition that limitation, the 38-year-old Derevyanchenko nonetheless boxed fairly properly, however it might be fairly not possible to offer him greater than two rounds of the combat, which no decide did.
It does hinder, maybe, what we are able to have realized in regards to the 29-year-old Mbilli, as a result of we simply didn’t get the very best model of an aged Derevyanchenko tonight because of the damage.
Vianello dominates Makhmudov
A career-best efficiency for Italian heavyweight Guido Vianello, who fully took Arslanbek Makhmudov aside and scored a stoppage on the very begin of the eighth spherical, when the ringside doctor lastly ran out of occasions he might permit the bout to proceed with Makhmudov’s left eye crushed 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 photographs with little or no aside 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, you must fireplace 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 one’s going to argue that Agbeko (28-4, 22 KO) is a world-beater, however the Ghanaian veteran is a stable professional, and Iglesias’ heavy palms had been simply manner an excessive amount of for him, similar as occurred to Marcelo Coceres and Evgeny Shvedenko, each of whom Iglesias, 26, stopped in a single spherical.
That is somebody you must completely have in your radar proper now in the event you don’t already. The one opponent to go the gap with him to this point is Isaac Chilemba again in 2022, and Chilemba is form of an skilled survivor.
