Danny Jacobs vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko

[Freedom]

This reminds me a bit of Hatton-Mayweather, Derevyanchenko being the smaller man with a serious reach disadvantage.


I'll be rooting for Derevyanchenko, but he's up against it here, fighting in Jacobs' back yard.

The ref, judges, crowd, and event promoter will be on Jacobs' side. Derevyanchenko will need a KO to win.

[Alpha]

This has the potential to be a great fight. I really like what I see with Derevyanchenko, but Jacobs showed against GGG that he can hang with the best. I'm backing Sergiy, but its truly 50/50 for me, I can envision many different possible scenarios that could occur, but I'm thinking Sergiy breaks Jacobs down late. It will be interesting to see how Jacobs looks with the 2nd day weigh in.

[TitoFan]

I was surprised to see it was on HBO, then remembered that HBO is ditching boxing AFTER the Jacobs-Dere fight.

Lampley I assume will have some sort of speech ready. TBH, I'm also gonna miss The Fight Game. Wasn't a bad show.

[Fenster]

I like Derevyanchenko for the upset, his combo's are terrific and fancy him to pop inside on Jacobs to offset the size difference.

[p4pking]

I see it as a 50/50 also, but there having sparred so much together makes me wonder. Who promotes Deveryanchenko, has he got major backing? Obviously sparring is sparring, but with that many rounds, they will know each other extremely well. Strikes me Jacobs didn’t have to take the fight if he wasn’t confident he knew something, but maybe I’m being cynical/reading too much into it. Great fight in any case.

[Spicoli]

Like the speed and accuracy of Derevyanchenko to keep Jacobs resetting. Might be totally off, but I don't think Jacobs sees at least half of them coming.

[Beanz]

I am assuming even Ron will be happy with this one. Very decent match up that seems like a coin toss on paper. Jacobs I think may struggle late with Sergiys style making him look easy to hit for the judges.

[Kirkland Laing]

I see it as a 50/50 also, but there having sparred so much together makes me wonder. Who promotes Deveryanchenko, has he got major backing? Obviously sparring is sparring, but with that many rounds, they will know each other extremely well. Strikes me Jacobs didn’t have to take the fight if he wasn’t confident he knew something, but maybe I’m being cynical/reading too much into it. Great fight in any case.

I was thinking it was a tough fight for Jacobs till I read about the sparring. If Jacobs knows him that well and took the fight then he's basically expecting a sparring session. This is a date HBO gave to Hearn as part of a previous fight deal and something they've got to do before they sign off and something Hearn had to fulfil before he did the deal with these streaming people. The budget for the opponent won't have been fantastic.

[SportsNews2018]

The Daniel Jacobs vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko match is going to be an exciting one for sure.
I am looking forward to seeing the match in person on Sat at MSG in NY.

I am honored to have exclusively interviewed Daniel Jacobs for The Ravi Report and in the process, found out what
an intelligent, hardworking and devoted parent and boxer he is. Jacobs spoke about his career, his cancer and how he
came back into the ring ready to go. He is a true role model for many young and upcoming athletes.

First time posting in forum and I am happy to see so many informative and positive comments about boxing and boxing champions.
Thank you.

[Fenster]

I was surprised to see it was on HBO, then remembered that HBO is ditching boxing AFTER the Jacobs-Dere fight.

Lampley I assume will have some sort of speech ready. TBH, I'm also gonna miss The Fight Game. Wasn't a bad show.

@TitoFan - I thought of you seeing this undercard face off (I checked the girl with the whiskers is deffo not trans...neither the other one)

[TitoFan]

Dayam!

I was about to launch into a tirade on how women should not be fighting men.

Seriously though, Shelley "Shelito's Way" Vincent looks manlier than the average Joe off the street.

Hard to believe they're the same weight, too. Looks like a midget-vs-giant affair.

Also noticed they have 5 big wins by way of knockout between them in 44 combined wins. Safe to say it'll probably go the distance.

[Primo Carnera]

Dayam!

I was about to launch into a tirade on how women should not be fighting men.

Seriously though, Shelley "Shelito's Way" Vincent looks manlier than the average Joe off the street.

Hard to believe they're the same weight, too. Looks like a midget-vs-giant affair.

Also noticed they have 5 big wins by way of knockout between them in 44 combined wins. Safe to say it'll probably go the distance.

I never opened the video, and I swear on my life, I thought the shorter one was a bloke!! I thought what the fuck is going on, is a guy fighting a bird?

[Primo Carnera]

The Blonde Bird has got a great pair of tits!