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To me this match-up has been like waiting for Christmas morning (that's when we always opened out gifts I don't know where this Christmas Eve presents stuff started). If Itauma loses he wins the prize for biggest hype/fail in boxing history. If he can knock Hrgovic spark out, as they say in Britain then he is indeed the real deal.

One thing Hrgovic does well is use combinations. If he buzzes Itauma with a shot there will be more incoming for the young man and how he handles that is one of the big questions.

Then again Hrgovic tends to just eat punches. Can he handle what Itauma dishes out though?

I haven't been this jazzed about a fight in a long time.
 
Hrgovic trained hard for this fight and it showed. Too many easy fights for Itauma did not prepare him for Hrgovic.

The Morrison-Mercer comparison held up, the agony of defeat just took longer to arrive.
 
This was possibly the only way Hrgovic was going to win and he took similar punishment to Mercer against Morrison.

My god nobody else could probably have taken this punishment and had the energy to come for more. Full marks to him he paid for this title and blood and sweat as we stated Itauma was too amped for this.

Probably the turning point was the 6th round where Hrgovic finally unloaded on Itauma and stunned him for the first time in his boxing career. After that Itauma had to pace himself and slowly gassed out and his 8th round flurry capped it.

PS the Itauma corner stopped the fight not the referee or possibly Itauma was going to count sheep for 5 minutes.

PS2 I found a copy of the fight this might get pulled soon...
 
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Well, there you go, like I wrote:
- Itauma was untested
-Itauma has no footwork to carry him out of trouble
-Itauma does not have the chin of a champion (once he started to get lathered up his eyes showed fright and he cracked)
-Hrgovic did come to win not just participate
-Hrgovic did go off centre line to throw his straight right
-Itauma did end up getting sledghammered out
-Hrgovic won the only way he could there was no scorecard in his favor

Essentially, Itauma is a typically protege who fell in love with his power and thought that was going to make him a champion. Itauma may one day be a champion and he could have a career like a Joshua, but he will never ever ever be a Usyk.

Congratulations to Hrgovic who trained hard, has gone through the trials, and earned this victory.
 
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Ambrose said:
Well, there you go, like I wrote:
- Itauma was untested
-Itauma has no footwork to carry him out of trouble
-Itauma does not have the chin of a champion (once he started to get lathered up his eyes showed fright and he cracked)
-Hrgovic did come to win not just participate
-Hrgovic did go off centre line to throw his straight right
-Itauma did end up getting sledghammered out
-Hrgovic won the only way he could there was no scorecard in his favor

Essentially, Itauma is a typically protege who fell in love with his power and thought that was going to make him a champion. Itauma may one day be a champion and he could have a career like a Joshua, but he will never ever ever be a Usyk.

Congratulations to Hrgovic who trained hard, has gone through the trials, and earned this victory.
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I'm not Abel Sanchez pretending to be Ambrose; here is Abel Sanchez speaking about the assessment of Itauma after the fight:

 
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