New situation: Bakole duck (claiming injury), Mark de Mori IN for Hrgovic, severe reputation damage?

Probably because Bakole is bang average

 

I've become a Hrgovic fan in recent years.

The Zhang fight was great. In his last fight, he scored an impressive KO once the referee could pry his hugging opponent off of him.

A Bakole bout would be another excellent matchup for him.

I would expect Hrgovic to break him down and stop him in the latter half of the fight.

 

Great fight, looking forward to this one and eventually being disappointed when the fight gets called off.

 

No one's career ends with a defeat, but the hope of fighting for the title ends, Hrgovic and Bakole are not protected like Joshua, who will have an easier way to win the title, Wallin was lured by money and agreed to such a risky fight because he does not care about the title, we will see everything. Hrgovic vs. Bakole is 50-50 and the winner will be decided by whoever has a better day on the day of the fight...

 

Monzon kod Frazier in sparring, Spadafora beat up Floyd, it means nothing

 

No one's career is getting ended. That's the problem with modern boxing and why these guys don't want to take risks anymore, if they lose one fight they're labelled a bum.

 

Hrgovic win that match if it actually happend (dont think soo)
I know that Martin Bakole is very dangerous guy but... He is lazy and became too fat now. His hands still very quick but his feet and stamina...
He show problem with stamina in past. Even in his win vs Yoka when he got him bad wobbled he must go much longer because he dont have stamina to go for finish.
If Yoka will not soo panic and just go back and jab he should last to end Bell.

Hrgovic moving pretty well and he got pretty good stamina. Off course quick hands of Bakole and not best defence of Filip make Croatian man took some shots but he have great chin and should take it well.
Filip will be too active and too quick movement for Martin a special in this shape.

They both 198 cm (6'6") but dont know who got better reach.

For me Filip is favorite 65-35 here. But vote question is wrong. Nobody career end after lost on that level.

Btw this fight is for me excite on same level as Parker vs Wilder and even better than Wallin vs Joshua. If it happend they can "steal the show".

 

Don't get the hype about the guy. He barely got past Sergey Kuzmin (I had him losing). I haven't seen anything to suggest that he's more than a fringe top 10 fighter.

 

These threads about Joyce v Zhang make me so sad.

 

Bakole is very beatable but the problem is Hrgovic tends to labor to decision wins and never really wins in emphatic fashion. Beating good contenders like Zhang and Bakole are great but when all your wins are close it makes it hard to build hype for the bigger fights.

I think Hrgovic could be the best of the upcoming crop but this is one of those fights where he really needs to prove it with more than just a close decision, not only to convince the critics, but to keep his current fans interested.

 

Why?