{"id":870367,"date":"2026-08-27T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870367\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:08:18","slug":"unimpressed-filip-hrgovic-and-the-tree-kissing-rituals-of-moses-itauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870367\/","title":{"rendered":"Unimpressed Filip Hrgovic and the tree-kissing rituals of Moses Itauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was like sitting in a boat and throwing rocks in the sea,\u201d he said, when it was put to him that he hit Dubois with everything. \u201cYou can\u2019t miss the sea on the boat. Yeah, I caught him with so many punches, but I didn\u2019t feel good. I tell you, I swear. One week before the fight, I was in my bed. I called the lady for flights. I asked her, \u2018Can we move this flight for a few days?\u2019 I was in bed one week before. I asked her, \u2018Can we move the flight?\u2019 She said, \u2018No, it\u2019s already booked. You must fly.\u2019\u2028\u2028<br \/>\u201cI was sick. Then I was a little bit recovered that fight week. I was drinking like 10 medications in a day. Every day just to get a little bit of energy. I didn&#8217;t feel good. After six rounds, I was dead. Not because of his punches, but I was just without conditioning. Also, I had two huge cuts. It was destiny. Now, I\u2019m sorry, but I will need to beat your guy [Itauma]. Your next big hope. That\u2019s the next big thing.\u201d\u2028\u2028<br \/>Itauma will be the fifth UK fighter in a row Hrgovic has faced, having also defeated Joe Joyce, David Adeleye and Dave Allen. And while many believe Itauma could be the next big thing in the heavyweight division, Hrgovic is in no rush to agree.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was like sitting in a boat and throwing rocks in the sea,\u201d he said, when it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,58050,17735,85],"class_list":["post-870367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-filip-hrgovic","tag-moses-itauma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870367","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=870367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}