Filip Hrgovic career is finished, and I am going down with the ship

Let's just ignore the fact that Hrgovic has been calling out the big names for freaking ages and his frustration at not being able to secure better opposition has been plain to see for a long time. I think that's actually caused him to fall out of love with the sport.

Criticize him all you like but don't act like he hasn't been ducked and avoided or that his handlers haven't invested in him like they should have, including E-Hearn. Imagine the backing he would've got if he was one of E-Hearn's favourites like AJ?

And AJ got bounced up and down off the canvas like a yo-yo by a walking blob in his first loss and got his ass schooled by a blown up CW in his second in his own backyard where everything was heavily stacked in his favour. He's lost x 3 and has only ever fought once in his opponent's backyard and he lost that fight. And he has the kind of backing, investment, training team and set up Hrgovic can only dream of.

J-Park lost to AJ, Whyte, got KO'd by Big Joe Joyce, won a gift against Chisora in the first fight and arguably lost to Fat Andy and Hughie.

And he has been dropped almost half a dozen times and has been taken the distance and looked poor in many fights by low or lower level opponents but he's seen as one of the very best in the division now and most deserving of a title fight

The Dosser has lost x 4, 3 via KO or stoppage

Dubois has lost x 2 via stoppage and it would be x 3 had it not been for corruption and home cooking and it would've been early to a blown up CW

Belly has lost

Big Bang has 2 losses albeit one controversial. That being said, it was a razor-close loss to a ''bum'' and Big Bang KO'd The Dosser and Big Joe Joyce and would've clearly done the same to J-Park had he actually let his hands go

Bakole got stopped by a CW

These are all guys in the current top 10 or just outside it

But Hrgovic is done if he doesn't get himself a quality trainer who actually analyses his flaws, works on correcting them and instead of gassing him up him up and telling he's an animal actually tries to make serious improvements in numerous areas to make him a much better version of himself.

The fact he's literally made zero improvements from the amateurs to the pros, or has even regressed from the amateurs, speaks volumes about that. His trainers have done nothing for him in terms of helping him improve.


Did you see any improvements from the Big Bang fight to the McKean one to Dubois one? If anything he got worse and his gas tank surely has because it was terrible against Dubois. There are a lot of raw ingredients to work with. He has an iron chin, good skills, good power although it could be much better, size and with the right training team and S&C program he can make big improvements.

He has to stop believing his own hype too. Some of it is his own fault (arrogance, overconfidence) but he's actually a good guy and I feel sorry for him because he has been mismanaged and very unlucky. Even coming from a small country like Croatia with little to no boxing scene or decent sparring over there has made everything that much harder for him from the get-go.