{"id":807588,"date":"2026-10-19T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:28:08","slug":"derek-chisora-sums-up-filip-hrgovics-chances-of-beating-daniel-dubois-in-unification-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807588\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora sums up Filip Hrgovic’s chances of beating Daniel Dubois in unification rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> has considered who would emerge victorious \u2013 Daniel Dubois or Filip Hrgovic \u2013 in a return of their thrilling encounter in 2024.<\/p>\n

Back then, the two heavyweights engaged in a closely-fought battle, with both of them enjoying sustained spells of success before progressing to the eighth round.<\/p>\n

At that point, though, it was deemed unsafe for Hrgovic to continue as two gaping cuts<\/a>, which had appeared over each eye, were becoming increasingly problematic for the plucky Croatian.<\/p>\n

As a result, Dubois would later be upgraded from \u2018interim\u2019 to full IBF champion and retain his title with a fifth-round finish over Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dynamite\u2019 then found himself on the receiving end of the same result against Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, before becoming a two-time world champion by dethroning Fabio Wardley<\/a> last May.<\/p>\n

He did so by surviving two knockdowns and scoring an 11th-round stoppage, while their rematch last Saturday saw him retain his WBO title with an emphatic second-round finish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic, meanwhile, is coming off a dramatic ninth-round stoppage of Moses Itauma<\/a> in August, with his next outing likely to be a mandatory IBF title defence against Frank Sanchez early next year.<\/p>\n

In terms of a potential unification match between the pair, however, heavyweight veteran Chisora has told DAZN<\/a> that he feels Dubois would be far too good for Hrgovic this time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel, right now, is on smoke. I wouldn\u2019t wanna fight Daniel right now. He would [beat Hrgovic].\u201d<\/p>\n

Chisora added that he believes Dubois is capable of dominating the division, essentially making him the favourite against WBC champion Agit Kabayel and Itauma, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has considered who would emerge victorious \u2013 Daniel Dubois or Filip Hrgovic \u2013 in a return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807588","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\/807588","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=807588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}