Not overly impressed with Hrgovic's comeback

Hrgovic reminds me somewhat of another underachiever Corrie Sanders. They even look similar facially. However Sanders had the huge signature win over Klitchko and had more power than Hrgovic.

 

Also frighteningly accurate, with arguably much worse chin.

 

The only way Hrgovic should get near a title shot with that performance over a jalopy like Joyce is with a ticket at ringside.

 

That looks like a worse but bigger version of Vitali vs. Briggs. Not optimistic for Hrgo's future.

 

Perhaps there's similarities in their dedication to the sport as well. Hrgovic reminds me of the odd euro fighter that used to pop up, once in a while, in the 80's. The talent is there but maybe not the heart.

 

He seems to have totally lost the ability to jab!

 

I'm not impressed either. I know he took it on short notice, but his gas tank looked barely improved from the Dubois fight. Compared to when he fought Zhang, his gas tank, work rate and hand speed have all degenerated significantly.

 

Hrgovic needs to lock in if he wants any hope of being a top heavy

 

He gets points for taking it on short notice. But a normal B- C+ performance from him. It still might be enough in the current landscape after Usyk bows out. Still hoping he can show another level though.

 

Hrgovic sucks. This was basically a sparring match and he arguably lost to a near 40, slow as molasses, zero-defense Joyce. Absolutely nothing about this performance was impressive by any metric.

Hrgovic tried to pull an old Larry Holmes vs Mercer fighting off the ropes, but lacked the defense and ring IQ to make it work. Most crucially, he wasn't jabbing enough. It's as if he's allergic to jabbing. 250 is also probably a bit too high for someone with his style, he needs to drop some lbs and work on his footwork and head movement, bad. Anyone in the top 10 could've beaten him tonight.

 

It's pretty much unanimously agreed upon on here and everywhere else that he won.

Uhh..... he won a unanimous decision dude. It worked. Objectively.

 

Yeah not sure where arguably losing came from. I wanted Joyce to win this one and even the absolute best I could see for him was a draw, and that's pretty generous.

It wasn't a pretty looking win or overly impressive win sure, but Hrgovic isn't the benefactor of a robbery or anything. Right man got his hand raised.