{"id":519545,"date":"2026-04-08T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:59:07","slug":"filip-hrgovic-predicts-former-opponent-daniel-dubois-fight-against-wardley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519545\/","title":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic predicts former opponent Daniel Dubois’ fight against Wardley"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time next month, all eyes will be on Fabio Wardley<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a> as they collide in an intriguing battle for the WBO heavyweight world title. Now, Filip Hrgovic<\/a>, who faced Dubois back in 2024, has laid out his prediction for the fight.<\/p>\n

Dubois and Hrgovic went toe-to-toe in a scintillating scrap for the IBF interim heavyweight title almost two years ago, where the Croatian suffered his first professional defeat despite a dominant start to the contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victory for \u2018Triple D\u2019 saw him then upgraded to full IBF world champion, and he went on to halt Anthony Joshua to prove he was a worthy heavyweight ruler before losing his title to Oleksandr Usyk. He now looks to bounce back in a third straight world title bout, this time against newly crowned WBO titleholder Wardley.<\/p>\n

Speaking to iFL TV<\/a>, Hrgovic said that he favours Dubois in the clash, predicting that the Londoner will become the United Kingdom\u2019s fifth two-time heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I give him the advantage. I think that he will win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018El Animal\u2019 then went on to reveal both his eagerness to fight Dubois once again and his doubts as to whether such an opportunity will ever arise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to have a rematch with him [Dubois] one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat [rematch for the WBO world title] would be great but I don\u2019t think that is happening because I am not from Great Britain. You motherf***ers give your guys all of the opportunities!\u201d<\/p>\n

Wardley-Dubois takes place on Saturday, May 9, at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, while Hrgovic takes on Dave Allen at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster the following week.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This time next month, all eyes will be on Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois as they collide in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}