Gennady Golovkin stripped of IBF title

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By Jeff Aranow: The International Boxing Federation stripped Gennady Golovkin of his IBF middleweight title on Wednesday due to him failing to agree in writing that he would defend his IBF belt against his mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko by the August 3 deadline for the defense.

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IBF holding hearing for Golovkin and mandatory Derevyanchenko

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By Jim Dower: The International Boxing Federation is holding a hearing today at their headquarters to decide on middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko, who Team GGG want to bypass temporarily. The IBF has already ordered Golovkin to fight Derevyanchenko by the first week of August otherwise he’ll be stripped.

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IBF grants Golovkin exception to fight Martirosyan

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By Sean Jones: The International Boxing Federation has granted IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin an exception to defend his title against voluntary challenger Vanes Martirosyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs) on May 5 instead of against his IBF mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs). However, the IBF is saying that Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) must face Derevyanchenko next if he gets past Martirosyan, according to Dan Rafael. That requirement will make it tough for Golovkin, because he plans on fighting a rematch against Saul Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) on September 15. Golovkin will have a very fast turnaround from fighting Derevyanchenko in late July or early August, and then coming back to fight Canelo a month or two later on September 15. It works perfectly for Canelo and his promoters at Golden Boy, because it increases their chance of winning. If Golovkin is depleted from having fought a war against Derevyanchenko, then Canelo can take advantage of that, because he’s younger and he’ll rested from his 1-year layoff from boxing. Canelo hasn’t fought since September 2017.

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Farmer vs. Ogawa and The Emergence of a New Threat

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On Thursday, it was announced to the public that Tevin Farmer (25-4-1, 5 KO’s) would face Kenichi Ogawa (22-1, 17 KO’s) for the vacant IBF Super Featherweight World Championship.This agreement removed the necessity for a purse bid scheduled to occur on October twenty-fourth.

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IBF pours Golden Boys plans down the drain for Molina-Ortiz fight

ortiz23By AJ Betancourt: I submitted an article last week talking about the December 14th fight between WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner and Marcos Maidana card and how Victor Ortiz was getting an immediate title shot on the undercard with newly crowned IBF junior middleweight champ Carlos Molina. I thought it was fishy that Ortiz was getting a title shot after a long layoff.

No disrespect to Ortiz but I think we can all agree a fighter with 2 consecutive losses, both by knockout, does not deserve a title shot, especially from being laid back for awhile from a 18 months of inactivity. Ortiz was originally supposed to be fighting this September, but instead he chose to be starred in the New “Expendables 3” movie. Well, the IBF was on the same page as me and others and refused to sanction the bout, referring to Ortiz inactivity and losses.

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