{"id":841955,"date":"2026-08-03T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841955\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:06:09","slug":"filip-hrgovic-names-the-heavyweight-he-believes-hits-harder-than-moses-itauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841955\/","title":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic names the heavyweight he believes hits harder than Moses Itauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

While crediting his next opponent for speed, Filip Hrgovic<\/a> is convinced that one heavyweight packs a more venomous punch than Moses Itauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair will square off on August 29, headlining a Queensberry card at London\u2019s O2 Arena, where Itauma is expected to encounter his toughest assignment thus far.<\/p>\n

Up to this point, the 21-year-old has not lost a single round and has barely even been caught with a clean shot, such being the dominant nature of his performances.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, though, he has faced largely inferior opposition while crafting a 14-0 (12 KOs) record, with his most notable win coming via a fifth-round finish over Jermaine Franklin<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic, meanwhile, has generally competed at a much higher level, albeit with his signature win arriving in contentious fashion against Zhilei Zhang<\/a>, who he unanimously outpointed in 2022.<\/p>\n

More impressive was his performance against Daniel Dubois, however, as despite suffering an eighth-round stoppage defeat on cuts, the Croatian gave a tremendous effort when they locked horns in 2024.<\/p>\n

Since then, Dubois has become a two-time world champion by dethroning Fabio Wardley in May, while Hrgovic, too, is firmly considered a top 10 heavyweight.<\/p>\n

Speaking with DAZN<\/a>, the 34-year-old named his former opponent as the division\u2019s most destructive puncher, knowing first-hand the type of force that \u2018Dynamite\u2019 typically generates.<\/p>\n

\u201cDubois, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given Dubois\u2019 95% knockout-to-win ratio, it is hardly surprising that Hrgovic regards the 28-year-old as such a ferocious puncher.<\/p>\n

As for Itauma, it must be said that the heavyweight prodigy is yet to prove his power at world level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While crediting his next opponent for speed, Filip Hrgovic is convinced that one heavyweight packs a more venomous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-841955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841955","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=841955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}