Comments Thread For: Filip Hrgovic Stops Demsey McKean in Twelfth, But Fails To Impress

[Zelda]

I remember being amongst the few ones who said Hrgovic, Kownacki, Ajagba, and Gorman were hyped on this platform. Otto is another hyped-up boxer for his one fight against Fury and while his skills are OK, he ain't beating any top fighter.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Hrgovic beats Joyce, because Joyce doesn`t move his head. Zhang rematch is 50 -50.

[El_Mero]

Hrg talked mad **** bout mckean. Hrg aint ready. Zhang whips his a.ss

[TheChamp12352]

Hrgovic hit him more to the back of the head than the front, all fight long.
the referee could not have continuously missed that $yanno$what$i$mean?$

I saw that, but when McKean was hugging him entire fight (you should have mentioned that aswell because Judge let that pass aswell), he had 2 targets - body and head from the side. Yea, he hit him in the back of the head,but aim was the side of the head and he landed way more of those.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Hrgovic obviously doesn`t like to get hit to the body. Every good body puncher can beat him. And the guy has a terrible endurance, terrible.

Usyk will murder this guy, it is a mismatch. Hrgovic - Sanchez would be more interesting.

[James]

Most of you here are ignoring the fact that McKean was hugging him entire fight. That is the resaon why Hrgovic looked bad. Every time McKean got punched in face he hugged him and it was not possible to fight. This will not be happaning with Usyk and it will be a lot interesting fight.

[JakeTheBoxer]

I still maintain Hrgovic is badly managed. His first fight in a year there's no way he can look good by been inactive. Hearn needs to get him out on a regular basis.

He is great managed. He is IBF mandatory, because he took the chances others didn`t.

In theory many guys could beat him, but just these guys remain inactive or they have a terrible management.

[M312]

Good thing he’s Usyk’s mandatory…

He's obviously preparing himself for Usyk, it's good. But it's very difficult to look good doing it.

Most boxers avoid any southpaw, never mind 2/3 back to back.

[James]

He is great managed. He is IBF mandatory, because he took the chances others didn`t.

In theory many guys could beat him, but just these guys remain inactive or they have a terrible management.

True. Let's see what he will deliver against Usyk.

[Warrior7]

I see that you are greatly underestimating Hrgovic chances against Usyk. Everything is in how someone match up with someone, and Hrgovic has chances against Usyk since he learned how to handle shorter fighters. That is one of his strongest sides actually.

To illustrate that, do yourself a favour and check on youtube Hrgovic fight against Sergey Kuzmin (European gold medalist in 2010... Usyk was in 2008 and Hrgovic was European gold medalist in 2015 ), Kuzmin looks like someone took a random a guy from a bar. Then find Sergey Kuzmin fight against Joe Joyce where he knocked out Joyce.
What happened? Well, Kuzmin was a terrible match up for Joyce, as someone in comments said: Short Heavyweight with punch and good hand speed are nightmare for Joyce.

Well, Kuzimin is not even that short, he is the height of Usyk (and nowhere near as good as Usyk, of course) ... however, that was a perfect height difference for (much younger) Hrgovic who was literally mercilessly beating Kuzmin for the whole 5 rounds (BTW, just to mention, Klitschko was the all time greatest master in handling shorter fighters)

Later, in professional career Kuzmin lost against Martin Bakole and Michael Hunter (his only two losses), so it's clear he is not such a big class, but he is still a serious fighter who matches up badly against a Hrgovic.

And after that, please find the fight between Hrgovic and Joyce, two equally matched fighters where Joyce won in split decision in a really great fight (you will not regret watching it).

For the end, perhaps you remember that Michael Hunter was supposed to fight Hrgovic in IBF final eliminator and was happy about it .. and suddenly he gave up of the fight. What happened? He and his team analyzed Hrgovic and noticed that he is great at handling shorter fighters and concluded they really don't need that kind of fight.