Hrgovic has said before that he wants a fight with the winner of Dubois vs Joyce.

Hunter stopped Kiladze in 5, the same amount of rounds it took Joe Joyce, the savage punching Ajagba who Kiladze dropped hard, and one round quicker than it took Kownacki

Hunter also stopped the unbeaten savage punching Bakole in 10 despite the later being way bigger than him and having over 40lbs on him

He stopped Ustinov in 9 despite the later having over 66lbs on him

And Hunter dropped the tough unbeaten Kuzmin hard too who had 37lbs on him and blew right through the 25lbs heavier and never before previously stopped Fabio Maldonado in just 2 rounds, the same Maldonado who in his previous two fights had lasted the distance against Oscar Rivas, Oleksandr Teslenko and after fighting Hunter lasted the full route against Carlos Takam too. Takam praised Maldonado's toughness after the fight


And of course Hunter hurt the teak-tough Povetkin badly a couple of times. Granted Povetkin was way past his best and his punch resistance not what it once was but that was a better and tougher version than the shot shell who fought Whyte. The Hunter fight took a significant amount out of Povetkin.

So Hunter hits hard enough to hurt, drop or stop all these HWs who are much heavier than him and you can ask of the UK's top HWs about Bakole and they'll all tell you he's the real deal because they've either experienced what it's like to share a ring with him or they've seen or heard about what he's done behind closed doors.

 

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Thanks. Yeah he might not be a one punch put you to sleep kind of guy but then again to be fair neither are Fury and AJ. However, he's proven he can hurt, drop or stop way bigger fighters (and tough ones at that) than himself with singles or two or three big shots in combination and his obviously his speed advantage enables him to land at a higher consistency than they can on him too.

 

He'd KO him

 

I'm not. AJ has never slept anyone, let alone done so with one shot. I'm not for one second suggesting that he doesn't wield huge power or that Hunter hits as hard as him because that would be silly. But the truth is not a lie.

Maldonado is not chinny and he wasn't gassed after just one round of action. Neither is Kuzmin.

Everyone can be out boxed when Usyk's the one doing the boxing.

 

Yeah he can definitely punch a bit

Povetkin's got a huge heart and warrior spirit and he did really well to withstand that early blitz by Hunter which he wasn't expecting and battle back from it and push Hunter down to the wire at his age. Hunter would've finished an awful lot of HWs with a early barrage like that.

Hunter's a free agent at the moment so I think he's trying to sort something out on that front.