{"id":683910,"date":"2026-05-21T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:11:18","slug":"derek-chisora-assesses-moses-itaumas-chances-of-beating-filip-hrgovic-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683910\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora assesses Moses Itauma’s chances of beating Filip Hrgovic now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> looks poised to next face Filip Hrgovic<\/a> in an intriguing heavyweight test that could answer many questions, and British heavyweight veteran Derek Chisora<\/a> has offered his thoughts on the fight.<\/p>\n

Itauma is yet to box beyond the sixth round in his 14 professional bouts, going the distance in two six-rounders and knocking out all other opposition before that point, despite recently jumping up to the world level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Hrgovic decisively defeated Dave Allen on Saturday night<\/a>, the Croatian has become the frontrunner to be in the opposing corner when Itauma headlines an O2 Arena card in less than three months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

However, speaking with talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, Chisora seemed hesitant to predict an Itauma win, labelling it a \u2018big step up\u2019 for the 21-year-old and a \u2018good fight\u2019 for Hrgovic.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can tell by his eyes, he [Hrgovic] is so confident, him and Moses would be a good fight. Is he a good fighter? He is an amazing fighter, they call him \u2018El Animal\u2019, there is a reason that they call him that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo answer your question, is that going to be a good fight for him [Hrgovic]? Southpaw, young fighter, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Moses, I believe that when you have people pushing you so much, having you think that you can beat anybody in the world, you believe it yourself. I think that this is a big step up for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itauma will top the bill in London on Saturday, August, 8, after Anthony Joshua\u2019s fight announcement caused a postponement to his plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma looks poised to next face Filip Hrgovic in an intriguing heavyweight test that could answer many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-683910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}