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.
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...
Chickenshit move. From behind. Hrgovic could have slipped and turned an ankle and the fight would be off. Makes me wonder if Itauma's team is rushing him before he does a Tyson type implosion.
Hrgovic-Itauma is a helluva match-up. I'm really intrigued by this fight. Like a lot of people I'm wondering why Ituama's people took such a jump in class at this stage in his career.
Chin I think will be the deciding factor. The Croatian has a great chin. Ituama's is THE question mark of this...
That girl shriek at the end of the race. Very unprofessional. And I loved it. Nationalistic pride for a fellow Aussie. Maybe just a little racial pride in there too? No, no. God forbid. She might have to issue a preemptive explanation/apology to head that one off.
I shudder to thing what not...
I've been quite disappointed with Sirenko's career after spotting him a few years ago. You never know what's going in in their private lives or what is happening in their management situation. I had written him off and now here he is back in the mix. Kind of.
For me the glass is still half empty.