{"id":75330,"date":"2025-08-17T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75330\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:36:08","slug":"tough-motherf-er-hrgovic-has-new-respect-for-adeleye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75330\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tough motherf\u2014er\u2019: Hrgovic has new respect for Adeleye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Filip Hrgovic had told the world that his fight with David Adeleye would be a \u201cwalk in the park,\u201d but after going 10 hard rounds with Adeleye on Saturday, Hrgovic had a new perspective on his opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s a tough motherfucker, man,\u201d Hrgovic told Queensberry cameras after the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hrgovic won a clear but hard-earned decision over Adeleye, and kept himself in the mix for a big fight later this year or in early 2026, possibly one with rising star Moses Itauma, who <a href=\"https:\/\/badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/109510\/moses-itauma-knocks-out-whyte-in-first-round-says-hed-fight-usyk-next-boxing-news-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smashed Dillian Whyte<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hrgovic did get rocked a few times by Adeleye (14-2, 13 KO), whose limitations were clear, but it\u2019s also obvious he does have sincere power. The eighth round saw Adeleye go down, only to nearly drop Hrgovic (19-1, 14 KO) in retaliation moments later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt was a crazy round,\u201d Hrgovic said. \u201cI knocked him down and I should have finished him, but I don\u2019t know what happened. I was a little too relaxed and then he caught me with a few good shots and almost knocked me down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCongrats to him. It was a good fight. I made some mistakes, but it was a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic had told the world that his fight with David Adeleye would be a \u201cwalk in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-75330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}