By Allan Fox: Daniel Jacobs’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he thinks the International Boxing Federation are going to strip IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin soon, and leave the belt vacant for Sergey Derevyanchenko to fight Jacobs potentially.
Sergey Derevyanchenko
IBF says Gennady Golovkin must fight Sergey Derevyanchenko by Aug.3
By Jim Dower: Earlier on Friday the IBF granted the requested exception by IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin for him to face Vanes Martirosyan in a voluntary defense on May 5 on the condition that GGG faces his IBF mandatory Sergey ‘The Technician’ Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs) by no later than August 3.