How does possible Hrgovic-Dubois rematch go?

That's the biggest problem he has to get a revenge win against Dubois, though.

The longer he leaves it, the worse his chances get - Dubois is only just coming into his prime, he's 26 right now... Hrgovic is 32.

Give it more than a couple of years and Dubois will be bang in the middle of his prime whilst Hrgovic will be past his best - and short of some serious work on his gas tank, that's likely to be a problem.

Hrgovic can't afford to wait too long, but he also needs a bunch of fights and a lot of training to be confident of doing better.


I think it's probably one of those that he realistically just won't win.

 

I think the criticisms leveled against Hrgovic are overblown. He was winning handily for much of the fight and I don't see any reason why he can't pace himself better and beat Dubois. Add in a little punch diversity and he's good.

 

I don't see a rematch happening but I think Hrgovic outboxes Dubious easily

 

Zhang will coldly knock Hrgovic out if there is a rematch, which I hope will not happen for Hrgovic's sake...

 

If the Hrgovic illness story is true then he ought to clean Dubois up in a rematch.

 

To be honest if Hrgovic gets his act together and fights at even 60% of his potential he can beat all of those, but it would be smarter to fight Makhmudov first and Zhang later if he has the choice. Zhang is only getting older and is too much of a risk for December. If Hrgovic can, he needs to make improvements fighting decent but not top 5 opponents.

I think if he can string together 3-4 decent wins or so, he'll be back in the frame for a title shot, perhaps vs AJ (I expect AJ to beat Dubois before any rematch can happen).

The main reason people are writing off Hrgovic is that his lacklustre, disinterested attitude in the ring coupled with an obvious lack of preparedness (maybe not his fault but still, impressions matter) does not inspire confidence - to get to the top one has to be motivated.

Parker went through a similar period after a similarly demotivating loss to Whyte (who IMHO will end up being seen as an inferior fighter to Dubois), he seemed disinterested and laborious in the ring, and even a bit out of shape.

That all changed when he linked up with Andy Lee, he still lost to Joyce after that but obviously gave it his best which curiously heralded a better future.

 

I agree he could come back, it’s gonna take some hard work and heart to do it.

 

Hrgovic is a better boxer than Dubois and can definitely win a rematch but he seems to go missing in fights when he gets resistance from his opponents. He doesn't have much fight in him.

 

Hrgovic has been well and truly exposed.

He had a better time against Zhang because Zhang threw less punches and is almost non-existent after 6 rounds.

Zhang is a static target and Hrgovic found it easy to land.

Hrgovic is one dimensional. Has a half decent jab and a good straight right but that's it really. His punches are almost as telegraphed as Wilders.

If Hrgovic can't line up that straight right he has nothing else.

Dubois took his best shots and he wasn't badly hurt.

Hrgovic also has a **** attitude. He may deserve another chance, but one more big loss and that's it.

 

Dubois appeared to me like an huge puncher
I am wondering if he hits harder than AJ

 

Hrgovic looked good in the first two rounds, after which you could see that Hrgovic is physically inferior to Dubois, against whom he had no chance to fight, this is Hrgovic's maximum and he can't do better than this...

 

There is no more progress for Hrgovic and that was seen in his last three fights, he has nothing left but to fight for money and we can expect some more defeats from him...