Hrgovic is a free agent, which promotor will take him?

Right.

Queensbury has Tyson Fury, Zhilei Zhang, Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce. Hrgovic fought Zhang and it was a great fight. Fury is the world champ. Dubois and Joyce would also be fun fights.

This seems the best option short term. If Fury is busy with Usyk, he could rematch Zhang, and fight Joyce and Dubois until Fury is free.

Top Rank has contenders Jared Anderson, Arslanbek Makhmudov, Efe Ajagba and Bakhodir Jalalov. These would all be fun fights, too. But Hrgovic doesn't really win anything fighting these guys. They seem more like his peers jockying for position.

PBC has contenders Deontay Wilder, Andy Ruiz, Frank Sanchez and Lenier Pero. Again, doesn't win anything against them. The Wilder fight would be fun. Hrgovic vs. Sanchez, Pero or Ruiz don't sound like as much fun as some of the other fights above.

Boxxer promotes contenders Martin Bakole and, I think, Joseph Parker.

Matchroom really only has Joshua at heavyweight. Whyte is there, too, but he isn't in most rankings and is barely in the WBC top 10. And if Matchroom signs a heavyweight, that means he 'ISN'T' fighting Joshua.

Queensbury seems like the best fit with the biggest opportunities.

 

Hearn wants to extend his cooperation with Hrgovic, now I don't know if that's good or bad, Hearn wants him to fight Wallin and Wallin wants that fight. Hearn also allowed him to fight at big events...

 

Worst option is Hearn with his AJ love crush, who of course signed Luis Ortiz with the express intention of matching him soft and protecting AJ from having to fight him.

Ideally Hrgovic needs a independent investor or major sponsor who can bypass the petty promoter stuff to get him a world title and the big money fights. Otherwise, he will be like most eastern European HW's, fighting in the shadows and retiring never having had a title shot. Without that investment it becomes impossible to get the big money fights at HW if you are half decent like Hrgovic is.

 

Hrgovic fought once in 2021 and once in 2022, being inactive as **** certainly isnt going to do him any good. The likes of Wallin is only useful as a stay busy fight in Q1 of 2023.

I would like to see Hrgovic or Zhang vs the winner of Fury - Usyk, next year.

He cant let Hearn park him up fighting once per year as by the time he does get a meaningful fight he wont be sharp.

 

I mean nobody wants to see Hrgovic vs Wallin.....It is sure great fight but boring as fck

 

Hrgovic vs Zhang is best option now

 

Because he's only got one good fight for him and he won't give him it because his cash cow would probably get beat.