Comments Thread For: Gassiev, Andy Ruiz Contacted By IBF To Accept Invitation To Face Hrgovic In Title Eliminator

[Tecnoworld]

Hrgovic v gassiev would be fine for me, but then what? Where does the winner go?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Hrgovic v gassiev would be fine for me, but then what? Where does the winner go?

To the IBF world title shot, if it is IBF final eliminator.

[Toffee]

what more can team Hrgovic do to move forward? I can't remember a similar situation to this for a long time - Ugas was avoided recently until he got a belt. The IBF should just make Hrgovic the mandatory challenger and award all the other contenders by order of quacks.

Make him the mandatory and the titlist isn't going to consider the IBF to be a belt worth having. Who wants to be fighting relative nobodies for no money when you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
You've got to have some standards for your mandatory. He's nowhere near that level yet.

[Sparked_26]

Ruiz seems a little entitled. I can't see him fighting massive threats until before someone gifts him a title shot.

[SteveM]

Make him the mandatory and the titlist isn't going to consider the IBF to be a belt worth having. Who wants to be fighting relative nobodies for no money when you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
You've got to have some standards for your mandatory. He's nowhere near that level yet.

It happens all the time with the IBF - this is their weakness. Their strength is that they strictly enforce mandatories but their top ten list is often filed with boxers who are barely prospects. Actually in this case their top 15 at HW at least has a few decent names in Hrgovic, Ruiz, Joyce and Parker.

[Stuart Chandler]

It's not Andy's punch resistance, AJ put him down. It's the snap in Andy's punch that suffered. He wants to take short cuts, cough, and lift weights. I would think that him KOing Mr muscles, AJ, would sour him on super lifting.

Ruiz needs to be overly fat to stop from getting knocked out being more fit will not help him .

[Toffee]

It happens all the time with the IBF - this is their weakness. Their strength is that they strictly enforce mandatories but their top ten list is often filed with boxers who are barely prospects. Actually in this case their top 15 at HW at least has a few decent names in Hrgovic, Ruiz, Joyce and Parker.

They need Hrgovic to fight someone that will give him some kind of credibility as a mandatory.

Making him mandatory right now just gives you a future title fight that no-one will buy into.

You couldn't really sell Hrgovic to casuals right now. He doesn't have a name on his CV.

[JakeTheBoxer]

They need Hrgovic to fight someone that will give him some kind of credibility as a mandatory.

Making him mandatory right now just gives you a future title fight that no-one will buy into.

You couldn't really sell Hrgovic to casuals right now. He doesn't have a name on his CV.

The goal of Hrgovic is IBF world title shot for now. And if he can get it by beating Zhang, even better.

IBF champ will have to fight him than or vacate the belt.

Was Pulev popular between casuals when he got world title shot? Of course not.

[Tecnoworld]

To the IBF world title shot, if it is IBF final eliminator.

Yup but when? Aj vs Usyk rematch, then undisputed, then rematch, then possibly vs jj for wbo and then a rematch should jj win. And only then, perhaps, IBF

[JakeTheBoxer]

Yup but when? Aj vs Usyk rematch, then undisputed, then rematch, then possibly vs jj for wbo and then a rematch should jj win. And only then, perhaps, IBF

No, WBO is the last one, because Usyk was WBO mandatory.