{"id":648051,"date":"2026-06-20T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648051\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:15:09","slug":"moses-itauma-to-face-heavyweight-rival-filip-hrgovic-in-london-on-29-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648051\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma to face heavyweight rival Filip Hrgovic in London on 29 August"},"content":{"rendered":"

British heavyweight Moses Itauma will return to action on 29 August to face Filip Hrgovic at London’s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

Itauma claimed an impressive win over Jermaine Franklin<\/a> in March to stretch his unbeaten record to 14-0 and retain the WBA International and WBO Inter-Continental titles.<\/p>\n

That has earned the 21-year-old his first headline fight against Hrgovic, who won bronze for Croatia at the 2016 Olympics and now has a 21-1 professional record.<\/p>\n

“This fight is the litmus test Moses is ready for and it is the one he wanted,” said promoter Frank Warren.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic stopped Dave Allen in Doncaster last month and the 34-year-old then called for southpaw Itauma.<\/p>\n

He and Hrgovic are first and second in the WBO rankings, respectively, and the winner at the O2 is set to be first in line for a shot at Daniel Dubois’ WBO belt.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic’s only defeat came against Dubois in June 2024 and he has since beaten three British fighters – Joe Joyce, David Adeleye and Allen.<\/p>\n

His bout with Itauma had been earmarked for 25 July, until compatriot Anthony Joshua arranged to face Kristian Prenga<\/a> on that date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British heavyweight Moses Itauma will return to action on 29 August to face Filip Hrgovic at London’s O2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648051","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\/648051","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=648051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}