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Live from Madison Square Garden in New York.
Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing USA, in association with GGG Promotions Present: Big Drama Show
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Time: 7pm ET
TV/Live stream: DAZN | Price: $19.99/Month, $99.99/Year
Time: 2am (UK time)
TV/Live stream: Sky Sports
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Main Event

Vacant IBF & IBO World Middleweight Championships
Gennady Golovkin vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko

Undercard

10 Round Super Lightweight Contest
Ivan Baranchyk vs. Gabriel Bracero

10 Round Super Middleweight Contest
Ali Akhmedov vs. Andrew Hernandez

10 Round Super Welterweight Contest
Israil Madrimov vs. Alejandro Barrera

8 Round Welterweight Contest
Brian Ceballo vs. Javier Flores

8 Round Middleweight Contest
Kamil Szeremeta vs. Oscar Cortes

6 Round Super Middleweight Contest
Nikita Ababiy vs. Isiah Seldon

6 Round Light Heavyweight Contest
Joseph Ward vs. Marco Delgado
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The highly anticipated pro debut of Irish light heavyweight Joe Ward came to an unusual, unfortunate conclusion Saturday night.

Ward, a southpaw, took an awkward step backward while trying to avoid a punch from Marco Delgado early in the second round. The decorated amateur’s left leg buckled under him and he couldn’t continue due to a serious knee injury that left him writhing in pain.

Referee Eddie Claudio declared Delgado the winner by technical knockout exactly one minute into the second round of a scheduled six-rounder on the Gennadiy Golovkin-Sergiy Derevyanchenko undercard at Madison Square Garden.

Delgado, of Anaheim, California, improved to 6-1 and produced his fifth knockout, albeit unconventional.

By Keith Idec

In the first fight Saturday night, hard-hitting middleweight prospect Nikita Ababiy needed just one minute and 45 seconds to stop Isiah Seldon in a super middleweight match that also was scheduled for six rounds.

Brooklyn’s Ababiy hurt Seldon badly with a right hand and finished him off with a left hook that left him unable to continue. Referee Arthur Mercante Jr. began to count, but quickly realized Seldon was badly hurt.

Ababiy, 20, improved to 7-0 and recorded his sixth knockout. Seldon (13-3-1, 4 KOs), of Somers Point, New Jersey, is the son of former WBA heavyweight champ Bruce Seldon.

By Keith Idec

Middleweight Kamil Szeremeta (21-0, 5 KOs), 29, of Poland, knocked out Oscar Cortes (27-5, 14 KOs), 26, of Mexico, in the second round.

Szeremeta had been due to defend the European middleweight title against Matteo Signani on Oct. 11 in Italy but instead vacated the belt to take this fight with Cortes for more money on a bigger stage.

With 35 seconds left in the first round, Szeremeta landed a flush left hook that sent Cortes to the canvas.

In the second round, Szeremeta hurt Cortes with two right hands and Cortes went down, but Szeremeta continued with his combination. Szeremeta caught Cortes with a right and a left after Cortes' knee already had touched the canvas. Cortes appeared to exaggerate his condition due to the late punches, but referee Benjy Esteves wasn't buying it and stopped the fight at 45 seconds. It was Cortes' second loss in a row.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑05 Oct 2019, 19:26

I can't say that Ward looked good before the injury. His footwork looks awkward.

The Beast is back.

skanksta wrote: ↑05 Oct 2019, 21:13 The Beast is back.

That he is..

Mains about to start, seems to have gone quickly.

Just waiting for these 3 national anthems to be over ffs.

Can't help thinking that GGG looks a bit underwhelmed by it all. The comentary are trying to sell this as a positive: he's pissed off at not getting the Alvarez fight so he's going to take it out on Derevyanchenko. We'll see.

Ringwalks now.. kinda pumped for this.

Triple G time.

Here we go!

Derev down round 1..
He seems to go down easily.

Derev very unsteady with his movements..

GGG 10-8 Round.

Flash knockdown 10-8