Hrgovic vs Zhang is off

This is hard to read, I was looking forward to this fight, my condolences to Hrgović, I knew about the death of his father who was seriously ill but I did not expect Hrgović to withdraw from the fight, I feel sorry for him...

 

I feel sorry for Filip.
Wondering which dancepartner they’ll find for Zhang now..

 

Buster Douglas was hurting because of his mother's death, but he still fought Mike Tyson - and won. Lamon Brewster lost his trainer Bill Slayton who he was very close to, but went through with his first fight with Wladimir Klitschko.

Hrgović would have honored his father by going through with the fight and winning the IBF eliminator.

 

You're probably right. Everyone's situation and relationships are so diferent though so you can't really compare one to the other.
If I was the deceased I'd want my boy to fight the eliminator.

 

What was the time frame for when Buster's mom died and the fight? Did he have a full camp? I also don't know the circumstances of Hrgovich's father's death. Did he die suddenly or was it a long term illness? Was hrgovich at bedside and attending wakes and funerals for what should have been the first 2 weeks of camp? I can understand pulling out honestly depending on all the circumstances.

 

I agree with this, unless he is just suffering such massive depression that the camp isn't going right.

But it sounds to me like a bit of an excuse.

Good luck to him in dealing with his grief, and let's get Zhang a good opponent.

 

The Savage is available to step in.

 

Zhang could have a rematch with Jerry Forrest.

Just remembered hes facing Kubrat Pulev soon haha.

 

I also thought that for Hrgovic it would be an additional motive to beat Zhang, but everyone is dealing with sadness in a different way, Hrgovic withdrew from the fight because he probably would not be 100% in the match and therefore he would risk and maybe even he would lose the fight...

 

Yeah people will deal with grief differently. The fact he didn't cancel the fight immediately shows that he at least intended to go on with the fight after his father's death but clearly in the month since then it's been made apparent to him he won't be close to 100%.

I lift weights and before my father died I had just hit a PB on bench and my squat and deadlift were the best they'd been in years. But after my father died, despite training as normal all my numbers plummeted. The constant stress of grieving, unknown to me was a taking a physical toll on my body. I was training and eating right, but my sleep was a mess and I was stressed and irritable all the time, probably due to all the stress hormones in my body from grieving and having slept poorly. I did everything, I deloaded, I took a week off, I upped my calories but nothing worked, I just kept on getting weaker rather than stronger with each passing week.

Unless you have gone through losing a parent or another close family member, I don't think you can really understand and even then your experience maybe very different to someone else's. I get why people are frustrated but I believe that if Hrgovic could have fought and performed anywhere near his ability he would have done so.

 

The right think probably would have been to postpone the fight for 1-2 months when his father died.

 

Condolences to him but you make the fight.

 

Sorry about his father but this is a duck. I knew it all along, the narrative was that “everyone is ducking Hrgovic” but obviously, it was Hrgovic doing the ducking.

Weak.

 

Dumb statement. If he is depressed cause of his fathera death its a legit reason to cancel.
Why whould he duck?