Itauma - what now? All that hype for what?

Heart yes, chin no. He never really got tagged cleanly by a power shot of note, hrgovic doesn’t have the sort of power behind him like Dubois or Aj or Wardley.

 

Boxercise Ben strikes again.

I've heard that Itauma doesn't even spar/train for 12 rounds, just 6. Pacing yourself in a fight is Boxing 101 stuff. Dude tuckered himself out so bad he started doing the chicken dance around the ring and had to be stretchered out of the arena. LOL.

Itauma has a LOT of work ahead of him. His defense needs major work and gaining the stamina to go 12 is going to take him YEARS, if he can even do it. And he doesn't strike me as a guy who is gonna be out there pounding the pavement at 3 in the morning. This is why you don't buy in to guys who have only ever been put in versus cans. You learn nothing about a guy seeing him knock out cans in 1 or 2 rounds while they just shell up and retreat.

 

We tried to warn people on here about Moses being the next big hype job. He has a lot to work on. Mentally can he come back from such an experience?

 

Don't forget he's only 21 years of age,His time will come.

 

Err... he absolutely dominated Hrgovic every round?

Hrgovic himself said "I lost every round, i was outboxed and outclassed, I dont know how i won/go through that"

 

Add New Zealand in there too mate lol the sports sections of our media are damn near unbearable.

 

Moses looked fantastic and ferocious. He is only 21.

He started boxing late and just wiped the floor with a boxer in Hrgovic who has how many years/fights/rounds experience???

Hrgovic himself said "i got outboxed and outclassed"

 

And there we have it.

 

He lost. Thats all that matters. Forget his stamina or Chin or anything else - it’s going to be very hard for him to come to grips mentally with what happened. He’s been fed a bunch of handpicked fights in a hometown setting. If he can get the mental part figured out he can absolutely come back but it’s going to be a tough ask.

 

But a lot of users here and elsewhere still called us critics "haters" for questioning his previous opposition and flaws. I've never ever seen such hype for a can crusher that had never faced any previous adversity.

Finally the hype train is derailed.