{"id":74414,"date":"2025-08-18T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74414\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:27:12","slug":"filip-hrgovic-discusses-david-adeleye-fight-calls-for-moses-itauma-bout-hes-a-young-future-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74414\/","title":{"rendered":"Filip Hrgovic Discusses David Adeleye Fight, Calls For Moses Itauma Bout: ‘He’s A Young Future Superstar’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavyweight Filip Hrgovic\u00a0 (19-1, 14 KOs) says he should have knocked out David Adeleye (14-2, 13 KOs) in the \u201ccrazy\u201d eighth round after he had dropped him with a right hand in their fight on Saturday night at the ANB Arena in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Adeleye\u2019s \u2018Crazy\u2019 Eighth Round<\/p>\n

Hrgovic was hurt in the round and almost dropped by Adeleye after eating an eight-punch barrage of heavy punches. However, he was able to clinch to escape the round and go on to win a 10-round unanimous decision. The scores were 99-91, 99-90, and 99-90.<\/p>\n

Filip, 33, admitted that he got \u201ca little too relaxed\u201d and was caught by a big punch from Adeleye. He assumed that the British fighter Adeleye was at his mercy, and didn\u2019t recognize that he was still in his full faculties and dangerous.<\/p>\n

After the eighth round, Hrgovic resumed dominating Adeleye and avoided his occasional wildly thrown homerun punches.<\/p>\n

Adeleye took a lot of punishment in the fight, the type that few heavyweights in the division would have been able to withstand without getting knocked out. These weren\u2019t arm punches from Hrgovic, as some fans mistakenly believed. You could hear the impact, and they appeared every bit as powerful as the ones that Moses Itauma landed on Dillian Whyte in the main event. Hrgovic was really sitting down on his shots, connecting cleanly all night, but Adeleye showed a tough beard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knocked him down, and I should have finished him. I was a little too relaxed, and then he caught me with a few good shots and almost knocked me down. Yeah, I think it was a crazy round,\u201d said Filip Hrgovic to Queensberry<\/a>, talking about the eighth round of his fight tonight against David Adeleye. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I didn\u2019t finish him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adeleye played possum with Hrgovic, and pounced on him with a huge left hook in the eighth round when he thought he had him ready to be knocked out. The crowd got Adeleye\u2019s competitive spirit awake with their cheering and responded by unleashing a storm of shots that somehow Hrgovic was able to take. The punches that he ate in that sequence were ferocious.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic\u2019s Callout for Moses Itauma<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, he\u2019s a young up and coming future superstar and I\u2019m the toughest motherf**** in the division,\u201d said Hrgovic when asked if he\u2019d like to fight Moses Itauma. \u201cThat would be a great test for him to see if he\u2019s the real deal. Is he a new Mike Tyson, or am I a new George Foreman? I would like to fight him, but it depends on Frank [Warren]. How much is he going to pay?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hrgovic would have been a much better step up tonight for Moses Itauma than Dillian Whyte. If Queensberry wants Itauma to be tested, they would be better off matching him against Hrgovic than throwing him in with undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in his next fight.<\/p>\n

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