Hrgovic's path for a world title.

Hrgovic has been fighting punching bags. His management team is not doing him any favors.

In order to develop as a boxer, he really needs to step up in competition and fight guys who can hurt him. Guys that can move. .... Guys with skills.

From what I've seen, his defense is suspect. He compensates by having a hard head.

That won't work against the top level guys. He needs to sort that out and become the best boxer he can be before taking on the A listers.

Just my opinion.

 

Guy should fight Bakolie

Turned him down previously but if he is now ready to step up go prove it

 

Maybe. But it is easier to be offensive minded when fighting human punching bags.

I'd like to see the guy develop as a fighter. Fighting punching bags breeds bad habits.

 

I don't see Hrgovic beating an in-form Fury for now. And the IBF mandatory will be due for like 18 months once Joshua defends against Pulev, so Hrgovic should look to get a contender in with him in the meantime.

 

Did Hrgovic really turn down Bakole ?

 

That kind of opponent last night isn't going to move any dials although to be fair to Booker he is a level above the clown that Ortiz blew away.

 

Fury was out of boxing until the end of 2017 - so saying 2015 is redundant. The bloke had to lose 10 stone of weight, of course you can forgive him Seferi and Pianeta. No one had any idea whether he was any good anymore.

Schwartz and Wallin were obviously supposed to be easy fights to indroduce him to the US audience. It then makes the Wilder fight bigger and then if he wins he is in a far stronger position to demand a bigger purse from the Joshua fight. All of that worked - and he's now able to demand basically a 50/50 split in that fight. Not a chance he'd have got that before.

I don't really understand what your point is here - even an idiot can understand how and why the timeline is what it is. If it wasn't for Covid it's possible Fury and Joshua might be fighting in December. There's no chance a big fight like that happens with no crowd - makes no commercial sense.

 

You're either trolling or drunk or simply don't follow the sport.

Joshua wasn't champion since 2015, he beat Martin in 2016 for the IBF belt, the IBF belt that was vacated by Fury who 2 months later would be suspended by UKAD for doping offences. So no way Joshua and Fury could have fought with Fury suspended and even if Fury wasn't suspended Joshua as part of the Martin deal had given 2 options to Haymon which is why his first 2 defences were against Haymon fighters in Breazeale and Molina, so he was tied up for all of 2016 as was Fury.

2017 Fury was still suspended so no chance of the fight with Joshua happening then.

2018 Fury mad his return, yes he fought 2 nobodies but he was clearly not ready to jump right back into a title shot. Eddie Hearn himself said Fury would need to fight a name opponent before getting a shot at Joshua which is why Fury refused to sign with Hearn and Matchroom according to Hearn. Joshua in the mean time fought twice one a unification fight vs Parker before Fury's return and the other a mandatory vs Povetkin which even if both Fury and Joshua wanted the fight they couldn't make the fight happen without getting the WBA to agree to allow a delay in the mandatory.

Maybe they could of fought in late 2018 but Hearn stipulation that Fury fight a name opponent first to build a Joshua fight and show he wasn't washed up nixed that idea. Hearn and Joshua didn't want to be seen cherry picking Fury early in his comeback before he proved himself, Wilder of course jumped at the chance for an easy win and we all know how that went.

2019 Fury is obligated to rematch Wilder and they waste months trying to make that happen only to see Fury sign a deal with ESPN. Joshua in the meantime loses his belt to Ruiz and his focus for the whole year isn't Fury but to regain his belts. Maybe the fight could of happened before Joshua lost his belts in the first half of 2019 but he didn't want Fury as he had no belts, he wanted Wilder who turned down that crazy DAZN deal and so fought Ruiz instead.

2020 Fury/Wilder rematch is signed, world goes into lockdown, so neither Fury or Joshua fight.

So reality is there has been little opportunity for them to fight each other. Maybe Joshua should of cherry picked Fury and save Wilder from needing the judges to save him, maybe Joshua could of decided not to try becoming undisputed and fought Fury instead at the start of 2019 but if he had, he'd of been criticised at the time for taking the fights.

 

This guy needs to get a move on if he's truly a special fighter. He's 28 and who has he fought? Fury fought Wlad at 26 or whatnot and had been calling him out for years before then. He'd already fought Chisora, Johnson, Cunningham, good fighters at the stage he fought them. Even Joshua was ahead of this guy.

I don't pretend to know the details, but that boy servant of Whyte was calling him out. Now, maybe he should have just fought that croat and smashed him to pieces in London because the guy had some hype. So then you get some fans and maybe some opportunities on a big card with a bigger name. Better than these random journos. I get the feeling some of these fighters don't really want the big fighters, though. Happy to take it very slow. Because Fury was taunting and calling the Klitschkos out from early times, he did seem to believe he could win.