Tonight (Saturday, October 5th) at Madison Square Garden in New York sees the vacant IBF middleweight title is on the line. Former unified champion Gennadiy Golovkin (39-1-1, 35 KOs) takes on Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10 KOs) in a fight that promises to be a “Big Drama Show,” as Golovkin loves to say.
For more boxing coverage, check out Bad Left Hook.
On paper, GGG should still be the favorite. In fact, he’s a comfortable but not gigantic betting favorite. He reigned at the top of 160 lbs for years before his close loss to Canelo Alvarez last year.