My Friend the Enemy: Sergiy Derevyanchenko gets Danny Jacobs in the Ring

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One notion that Sergiy Derevyanchenko would like to debunk is that he is somehow friends with fellow middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs. They do not meet up regularly for brunch on Saturdays in Williamsburg or play poker on Thursday nights down in Brighton Beach. Though both fighters share the same trainer in Andre Rozier and have engaged in numerous spirited sparring sessions with each other (close to three hundred rounds, to date, Jacobs guesses), they are hardly what you would call friends. “He’s just someone I see in the gym,” Derevyanchenko recently said of his stablemate, in between rounds of shadowboxing at the Park Hill Boxing Club in Staten Island. “We say ‘Hi, hello, how are you’—that’s it.’”

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