CHRISTIAN MBILLI (ranked high three by every of the governing our bodies) collected a commanding unanimous choice win towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko in a ten spherical tremendous middleweight bout, as the 2 headlined a 9 combat card at Centre Videotron in Quebec, Canada.
Each fighters got here out on their toes within the first spherical, rapidly seeking to have interaction with each other, although Mbilli quickly established his stiff jab, which he would observe up with robust straight rights and urgent energy hooks.
Mbilli was regularly sending pictures together with his head off the road to keep away from Derevyanchenko’s outpouring of formidable headshots, and focused the physique reasonably closely fairly early on.
Derevyanchenko unloaded hooks upstairs to fight Mbilli’s onslaught of punches, with hopes to realize an early benefit towards the undefeated Frenchman — which he was finally unable to do.
All through the combat’s entirety, Mbilli, 29, was clearly in charge of the tempo because of his output. For instance, touchdown a powerful proper hand adopted by hooks and bruising energy pictures in spherical two, heaving Derevyanchenko into the nook.
Quick ahead to spherical 4, Derevyanchenko seemingly tore his left bicep, which curiously sufficient precipitated the combat to realize a bit extra competitiveness — although solely briefly — because the Ukrainian vet instantly went into survival mode by lastly throwing combos because the attacker.
Spherical 5, a one-handed Derevyanchenko got here out quicker, establishing his pictures with feint jabs, ducking, rolling and exhibiting his straight proper hand in a slower paced method than every of the earlier rounds.
However, spherical seven was probably the very best for Derevyanchenko, touchdown a urgent physique shot and big rights, notably beautiful Mbilli. With a minute left within the seventh nonetheless, Mbilli gained again management and landed two assertive proper fingers to shut the spherical, and he didn’t look again.
For the 38-year-old injured Derevyanchenko — who clearly was simply attempting to final till the ultimate bell — the combat went rapidly downhill, as Mbilli continued to land combos that staggered the honorable Ukrainian.
The bout was scored 100-90, 99-91, 98-92, with Mbilli bettering to 28-0 (23 KOs), and the three-time title challenger Derevyanchenko falling to 15-6 (10 KOs).
