In his biggest test in the ring yet, unbeaten middleweight Jaime Munguia (41-0, 32 KOs) will face former contender Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyanchenko (14-4, 10 KOs) in a 12-round middleweight fight on Saturday, June 10. The 12-round main event is scheduled to take place at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California, and will be broadcast live worldwide on DAZN.
“Munguia has always wanted the toughest fights — and this is going to be one of them,” said Oscar De La Hoya, CEO and Chairman of Golden Boy Promotions. “For years, Derevyanchenko has gone life and death with the division’s top middleweights and has always reached the final bell. Should Jaime get past him — and I believe he will — he is immediately in position for a world title shot.”
The 37-year-old Derevyanchenko has dropped three of his last four
Well as far as Munguia’s opponents go, this is actually pretty good. I was expecting Shane Mosley Jr. at the best case scenario. Seriously though he should be fighting Janibek. No reason for him to be fighting an old Derevyanchenko while Janibek is fighting Steven Butler four weeks apart. They kinda need each other.
I don’t know if Munguia and Janibekt need each other (I doubt it), but I know Oscar wouldn’t fancy that idea, rather I think he might be aiming to the part time semi retired regular WBA champion Erislady Lara as a viable championship route for Munguia.
For me, it just looks crazy when two of the biggest names in a division that’s slim on big names are fighting for promoters who don’t have a hard time working with one another and are both fighting substandard opposition. “Need” is probably too strong of a word, but that’s a fight that has to be made.
They did get together on Tank – Garcia, but I’d be surprised if Oscar and PBC made Lara – Munguia anytime soon.
Lara would box circles around Munguia. Lara might not be the most exciting fighter but I can’t see Lara losing a round to that stationary target. Talk about a blown up resume! I think he fought a dude with the last names nobody & bum!
Oddly enough, Lara has shown himself to be vulnerable to kind of crude pressure fighters throughout his career. They give him problems. Castano, Hurd, Angulo and even Carlos Molina back in the day all gave him problems and he’s even older now. I’m not saying Munguia would beat him, but I don’t think it’d be a one-way fight for Lara either AND Lara’s history is good, but he also hasn’t fought a legit opponent in almost five years.
I’m not sure Munguía can handle Derevyanchenko. Even though Derevyanchenko has lost a few he has only los to the very best at that time. Pluses he’s never been whitewashed or dominated majority decision with GGG, went for broke with Charlo, and had a split decision lost to Jacobs. He has only 19 fights as a pro but damn, look at his resume. Munguía on the other hand has over 40 fights and has not looked like the fighter that bested Sadam Ali who he outweighed by 25 pounds at Jr Middle-weight that night by the way. Sergey is not easy work for anyone around his weight. The one factor on my guess side is his age and his trainer the great Eric Morales showing him how to box behind his jab more. Something he will need against Sergey.
Derevyanchenko will show where Munguia is. I like Derev (how can you not) but he’s a guy who finds a way to lose close fights to top guys and if Munguia is a top guy, he should win a decision over Derevyanchenko.
His losses maybe more to age than top guys he has fought.
Maybe against Adames and Charlo it was age, but he fought Daniel Jacobs almost five years ago, that wasn’t due to age and GGG is even older than Derev is.
Let’s be real about this. Munguia is a rising star, trained by Morales. Derevyanchenk is washed up. There is NO WAY that Munguia is going to lose this fight. Let’s also add, there is a great chance that Derevyanchenk is getting KTFO or stopped.
Oscar is not stupid. Did you ever see the movie Stand & Deliver? Jaime Escalante. That was Oscar’s math teacher. Oscar got an A in the class. Oscar was supposed to study architecture at USC. Instead, he decided to make millions in boxing. Oscar was a great student. He is highly intelligent.
Inteligent student sounds like an oxymoron. Difficult to find someone inteligent among educated people. Education system is for imbeciles who can’t think for themselves and need someone to tell them what to think. Education is memorizing mostly false information.
After Munguia’s upcoming victory, I hope Munguia’s next fight is against the Smith/Eubank, Jr. winner because I am not sure about GGG’s plans.
Derevyanchencko is a stiff test for Munguia, even at 37 and taxing losses against GGG, Charlo and Adames, but it’s the right opponent. Oscar’s not ready out cash out Munguia. “Payday” as Canelo would say for Sergei and then retirement as he’s not here to win, just go the rounds, it’s politics as well as boxing.
cares absolutely nobody
Munguia = poop-guia
why even comment if that’s so? im sure you’re not watching either.
C’mon, 37 year old dervyachenko has los 3 out of the last 4, a test for munguia!!! What a joke! Munguia will sooner or later be exposed like queenry garcia and zurdo ramirez onced they run out of weak opposition!
Biggest test? Yeah perfect time to take on Derevyanchenko when he’s old and on a downward slide. Seems like ages ago when Hymie’s name was mentioned as an opponent to GGG, years later and he is still not fighting the best in the division. boooo
Sergiy has never been knocked out and has a good resume. His losses were against Daniel Jacobs, GGG, Jermall Charlo and Carlos Adames. He is 37 so let’s see what he has left. It would be great to see if Munguia gets by then he should fight Carlos Adames, but Oscar would never put him in with someone who has a chance at beating Jaime.
This should be a good test for Jaime Munguia, this is a though opponent but the edge is for Jaime. Lets hope Jaime can win convincingly. If Munguia stopped Sergiy then he will make an interesting case for himself against the top dogs of the 160 lbs division Jermall, Adames, Andrade, & Zhanibek.
It is time for Munguia to step up or get a new promoter, Morales has had a positive impact as a trainer, however, a fight with Charlo or Morrell should be forthcoming, He is a heavy handed fighters that can unleash some serious bombs.
All these guys at 160 refuse to fight each other at all costs. Such a disgrace.
Concur and yet they all want to fight Canelo at 168.
A prime Derev would have stopped the clumsy Mexican, but this version will lose a 12 round UD. All the talk of Munguia facing Charlo or Bivol was just talk to hype up his low IQ casual fan base, only for him to end up fighting another underdog waaay past his prime.
I believe Charlo is next for Munguia, easy pickens for Munguia, Charlo seems to be damaged goods.
I’m not sure Munguía can handle Derevyanchenko. Even though Derevyanchenko has lost a few he has only los to the very best at that time. Pluses he’s never been whitewashed or dominated majority decision with GGG, went for broke with Charlo, and had a split decision lost . He has only 19 fights as a pro but damn, look at his resume. Munguía on the other hand has over 40 fights and has not looked like the fighter that bested Sadam Ali who he outweighed by 25 pounds at Jr Middle-weight that night by the way. Sergey is not easy work for anyone around his weight class.
Come on. I know Sergiy has had some strong performances but let’s not deny this is another dose of classic Munguia padding. Catch him on his way down… Oscar’s no dummy.
Haha !!! “…always wants the toughest fights”.
How good is this guy!! Even when he doesn’t win, he still wins.
Derev ain’t no slouch, but I haven’t seen Derev perform against a top tier fighter since the end of 2021. Guys can look old “overnight” when you haven’t seen them fight in quite some time, especially at 37. Come forward styles don’t age well either.
Munguia is fighting him for a reason – he’ll be a significant favorite when the odds come out. Even if it’s close, Munguia is going to get the decision because this is the boxing business after all.
Portrait of a coward. Munguia needs to fight viable competition. This is BS. All of these guys are afraid of getting a loss. Now one will take Munguia seriously until her fights someone viable.
Derevyanchenko is washed up. He should get a job training others. This won’t go the distance.
I could be 50-0 too if I fought my next door neighbors. Its time to cash this fraud out.
Munguia should walk through him at this point. I would have said the reverse 3-4 years ago, but the fortunes have turned for each of these guys. I say this each time Munguia has a fight on the horizon, and I’m sorry to have to repeat it but, let’s hope Jaime has improved his defense to a notable extent this time out.
Derevyechenko is a technically-skilled fighter who manages to cpme up short in big fights. Although he’got heart to go with his skillset, I would imagine he loses by a late ko, imho.