{"id":15765,"date":"2019-04-14T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2019-04-14T07:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:01:05","slug":"derevyanchenko-beats-culcay-in-ibf-eliminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=15765","title":{"rendered":"Derevyanchenko beats Culcay in IBF eliminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergiy Derevyanchenko is still firmly in the running at 160 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sergiy Derevyanchenko is in line for another shot at the IBF middleweight title after a win tonight over Jack Culcay in an eliminator.<\/p>\n<p>Derevyanchenko won by unanimous decision on scores of 115-113, 116-112, and 116-112. BLH didn&rsquo;t score the fight, but our friend Marcos Villegas unofficially scored for FS1, and had it 115-113 for Derevyanchenko.<\/p>\n<p>Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10 KO) fought Daniel Jacobs for the then-vacant IBF title last October, losing a very competitive split decision. The 33-year-old Ukrainian remains a top contender at 160, and in theory is now in the mix to face the winner of the May 4 fight between Canelo Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs. The victor of that fight will hold the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles.<\/p>\n<p>Culcay, a former interim titleholder at 154 pounds, drops to 25-4 (13 KO) in defeat.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Colbert and Borrego win prelim fights on FS2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2019\/4\/13\/18309749\/quillin-vs-truax-results-chris-colbert-and-jose-miguel-borrego-win-prelim-fights\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Ve Shawn Owens SD-8 Alexis Gaytan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a hell of a fight, a proper 154-pound war between a couple of guys who only made TV because a baseball game went longer than the people at FOX Sports expected. Who could guess that a baseball game would last longer than three hours??? Owens (10-2, 9 KO) was down in the third round, but came back to win on scores of 76-75, 77-74, and 75-76. Despite being the hometown guy, Owens didn&rsquo;t get a good response after the decision was announced. Gaytan falls to 5-3 (2 KO).<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexis Gaytan drops Shawn Owens with a big right hand in RD3. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GaytanOwens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GaytanOwens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBConFS2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBConFS2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KIlOqj0naz\">pic.twitter.com\/KIlOqj0naz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PBC (@premierboxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierboxing\/status\/1117251959851900930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Money Powell IV TKO-6 Christian Aguirre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Powell (10-0, 6 KO) is a 21-year-old middleweight prospect from Alabama, born in Germany. He was the clearly better fighter here, as Aguirre (8-5, 4 KO) didn&rsquo;t do much of note besides foul, at least until he got crushed for the finish at 40 seconds of the final round.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergiy Derevyanchenko is still firmly in the running at 160 pounds. Sergiy Derevyanchenko is in line for another shot at the IBF middleweight title after a win tonight over Jack Culcay in an eliminator. Derevyanchenko won by unanimous decision on scores of 115-113, 116-112, and 116-112. BLH didn&rsquo;t score the fight, but our friend Marcos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}