{"id":919297,"date":"2026-10-03T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:10:08","slug":"filip-hrgovic-names-the-3-heavyweights-who-hit-harder-than-moses-itauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919297\/","title":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic names the 3 heavyweights who hit harder than Moses Itauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filip Hrgovic has identified three previous opponents that hit harder than Moses Itauma, who he claims never had him hurt during their contest in August.<\/p>\n

Back then, Itauma got off to a blistering start, even scoring a second-round knockdown, and appeared to be in full control of their heavyweight encounter.<\/p>\n

That was until he was reduced to a state of exhaustion, with the 21-year-old pursuing an eighth-round finish but ultimately failing to get his man out of there.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Hrgovic had shown a tremendous chin and, at that point, all he needed was to let his hands go and orchestrate a ninth-round stoppage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In doing so, he became Croatia\u2019s first world heavyweight champion by claiming the IBF title, which he must now defend against mandatory challenger Frank Sanchez.<\/p>\n

As for his last outing, Hrgovic immediately highlighted Itauma as the best fighter he has ever faced, chiefly because of the heavyweight prodigy\u2019s speed and ring IQ.<\/p>\n

In terms of power, though, the 34-year-old has told The Stomping Ground<\/a> that Daniel Dubois, Zhilei Zhang and David Adeleye all hit with greater authority during their respective contests.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never hurt in that [Itauma] fight. He connected [with] some good shots and I didn\u2019t see his punches coming. He was fast, but I was never hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt some other fighters\u2019 power more. Like David Adeleye \u2013 he hit me [with] the strongest punch I\u2019ve ever received in my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Dubois, I felt [his power] more. And Zhang. So [Itauma isn\u2019t] the biggest puncher I\u2019ve faced.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Dubois and Zhang are both renowned knockout artists, it is perhaps somewhat surprising that Hrgovic, who won their August 2025 fight by unanimous decision<\/a>, considers Adeleye to be a more devastating puncher than Itauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic has identified three previous opponents that hit harder than Moses Itauma, who he claims never had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-919297","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\/919297","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=919297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}