How powerful was the uppercut that Itauma landed on Hrgovic?

Serge · Sep 3, 2026 at 12:17 PM

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I remember the Kharitonov fight. I was cheering for Sergei who was pretty old but always had a thunderous punch. Just couldn't put El Animal away ...
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Yes. Hrgovic was 18 y/o (almost 19) in that fight. There's a reason why I've been telling everyone for years Hrgovic has an iron chin. Taking huge bombs and many in quick succession from a big punching Kharitonov whilst still a teenager. Hrgovic has taken a ton of punishment in his career amateur, semi-pro, and pro and in sparring too. It concerns me his chin has to go at some point

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Barrf · Sep 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM

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Big Bang who has stopped 22 of his 27 victims, including knocking out 15 of his 16 previous going into the Hrgovic fight and 3 of those 5 fights that went the distance were 4 rounders, and one of the others a 6 rounder all of which obvious very early on in his career, 3 of them being in his first 6 fights

ie. the 280lb man mountain who one punch iced the iron-jawed man mountain Big Joe Joyce flat on his face like a sack of potatoes

Dropped the very sturdy chinned J-Park x 2 despite barely letting his hands go all night, including dropping him with a six inch punch that looked more like soft caress than a punch, cracked a 34lb lighter Hrgovic with his bombs for 12 rounds straight and apart from a bogus KD in round one didn't come close to dropping him

Dropped Kabayel

One punch smoked Thee Dosser in comical fashion

The same Big Bang who is arguably the hardest puncher in the division and it's a very strong argument

KO 95% Dubois whose vaunted power was enough to Big Joe Joyce into a giant Virgil Hill jab merchant

Who has stopped every single one of his 22 victims sans 1, the very stick and durable survivor Kevin Johnson, and KO'd AJ on his face and is the only man to stop the iron-jawed walking PED factory Miller despite being almost 100lbs lighter, like 93lbs

Couldn't come close to dropping Hrgovic despite using his billy goat noggin almost as much as his fists

KO 92% David Adeleye who has a nasty left hook teed off on Hrgovic with like 13-14 unanswered hooks after cracking him with a huge left hook shortly before and Hrgovic ate it all and was on the attack immediately after when 99% of HWs would've been asleep on the canvas

Moses who went through a whole tournament, the European Juniors, stopping all his opponents in the first round on route to gold, and stopped 2 of his 4 opponents on route to gold in the World Youth Championships, has an insane KO50% in the amateurs, and is not only thee only man to floor Franklin but the only man to stop him and he did so on a HL reel one punch KO

He hit Hrgovic with the kitchen sink from start to finish and aside from a flash KD which was clearly a balance issue didn't come close to dropping him and Moses was the worst style match for Hrgovic imaginable. Moses is actually right-handed southpaw and that right hook is seriously heavy

But it's not only as a pro Hrgovic has displayed a titanium chin he's one of the very few elite SHWs/HWs who was never dropped or stopped in the amateurs and he had over 100 fights according to him including 30 WSB fights over 5 rounds and he fought damn near all the top SHWs and loads of big punchers and he was fighting in the WSB as young as 18 vs grown men

And he's never been dropped in sparring despite sharing a ring and going to war vs Wlad, The Dosser, Haye, Dubois, Fabio among many others. Haye told Shane McGuigan that Hrgovic was the best guy he sparred

His chin is ridiculous and always has been
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Yep. He's like Mercer or McCall. Some combination of pain tolerance and inability to be concussed lets him tank an insane amount of punishment without going anywhere.

bjl12 · Sep 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM

MixedMartialLaw said: ↑

Force equals Mass x Acceleration. Itauma was over 240 lbs throwing that fast cut, so that's why I'm thinking there was either something about his technique that nerfed the power of the shot, or Hergovic really does have one of the best chins of all time?
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What round did it land? That matters more because Itauma was spent in last few rounds...nothing on his punches

bjl12 · Sep 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM

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Hrgovic absolutely SONS best version of Wilder. And its not even close.

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