{"id":753463,"date":"2026-08-29T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:16:09","slug":"itauma-vs-hrgovic-predictions-ibf-heavyweight-title-fight-predictions-from-fighters-and-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753463\/","title":{"rendered":"Itauma vs Hrgovic predictions: IBF heavyweight title fight predictions from fighters and pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain could have a new heavyweight world champion on Saturday when Moses Itauma faces Croatian Filip Hrgovic at London&#8217;s O2 Arena for the vacant IBF title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old Briton has won all 14 of his professional fights, 12 by stoppage, and has established himself as one of the division&#8217;s most exciting young prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A victory would make the Chatham fighter the youngest heavyweight world champion since Mike Tyson in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Hrgovic is a major step up. The experienced 34-year-old &#8211; a 2016 Olympic bronze medallist &#8211; has a record of 20 wins and one defeat, with 15 victories inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can follow radio commentary from 21:00 BST on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, BBC Sport website and app, before switching to BBC Radio 5 Live from 22:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Live text commentary will begin at 19:30 on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport spoke to figures from the boxing world to get their predictions for the bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain could have a new heavyweight world champion on Saturday when Moses Itauma faces Croatian Filip Hrgovic at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753463","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\/753463","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=753463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}