his YouTube channel<\/a>, Froch heaped praise onto Hrgovic, believing that the away fighter did not get out of \u2018second gear\u2019 as he ran through Allen with ease.<\/p>\n\u201cHe boxed really well, relaxed, probably didn\u2019t get out of second gear and he is now being touted to potential face Moses Itauma. Now that, for me, is a juicy fight because Filip Hrgovic is a good, solid, all-round, real professional boxer in a sense that he does everything correct.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is like a [Marquess of] Queensberry Rules standard, with that Eastern European style about him, where all of his fundamentals are solid; good jab, good balance, good head movement, he reads the shots well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Froch then went on to warn Itauma that his chin will be tested if he dares to take on Hrgovic in his next fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHrgovic is a force to be reckoned with. I don\u2019t want to say that he is a stepping stone or a test before world level, but he is. If Moses Itauma can come through that fight against Hrgovic, that is going to answer a few questions that we need to find out about Itauma, if he is being dubbed as the future of heavyweight boxing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a fantastic fighter; fast hands, good combinations and highly skilful. Can he take a punch? I think that Hrgovic will test that chin because he can certainly punch a little bit, he is a big lump, a big unit. I will look forward to that one, when that one happens. Hrgovic-Itauma, let\u2019s get ready for that!\u201d<\/p>\n
The O2 Arena is booked for Saturday, August 8, for Itauma\u2019s next outing, as he headlines in London for the first time before a planned U.S. debut at the end of the year<\/a>. If Hrgovic is fit and the cut he suffered against Allen won\u2019t pose problems, the fight is ready to be made, according to promoter George Warren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After comfortably beating Dave Allen, Croatia\u2019s Filip Hrgovic has emerged as the frontrunner for a fight with Moses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590667","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=590667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}