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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.
 
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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:

 
The boxing schedule starts Thursday this week. DAZN is carrying all three cards that I found. I don't think I have ever seen where a fight was listed as 10 or 12 rounds before. The Ruiz Jr and Mielnicki fights are scheduled for 10 or 12 rounds. Unusual.


Thursday, September 3​

  • Montreal Casino, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (DAZN)
    • Lenar Perez vs Thabiso Mchunu, cruiserweights, 10 rounds
    • Moreno Fendero vs Stephane Fondjo, super middleweights, 10 rounds
    • Jhon Orobio vs Antonio Moran, super lightweights, 10 rounds
    • Wyatt Sanford vs Costin Ion, lightweights, 8 rounds

Friday, September 4​

Saturday, September 5​

  • Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland (DAZN)
    • Katie Taylor vs Flora Pili, super lightweights, 10 rounds, for Taylor’s undisputed championship (WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO titles)
    • Dave Allen vs Thomas Carty, heavyweights, 10 rounds
    • Paddy Donovan vs Tyrone McKenna, welterweights, 10 rounds
    • Molly McCann vs Slywia Doligala, bantamweights, 8 rounds
    • Taylor Bevan vs Emmet Brennan, super middleweights, 10 rounds
    • Joe McGrail vs Matthew Boreland, super bantamweights, 10 rounds
    • Adam Olaniyan vs TBA, heavyweights, 4 rounds
 


Check the boxer in blue. Oleksandr Khomenko, winning Gold here at the European Under 19's championships at Super Heavyweight. Impressive!
 
Charles Martel said:
I hope Damian Kynba retires the lazy, fat Andy Ruiz this coming Friday.

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If he has the goods he should be able to beat Ruiz who has been fat and lazy for years.

There are promotional videos circulating of Ruiz "training" and movies stars buffing up for super hero roles are more intense than Ruiz. Ruiz tools to camp in a 6 figure car and goes home with his obese son. There is a reason why we saw the upset last weekend and it was because he did the complete opposite of this. Hrgovic talked about not seeing his wife and infant daughter for two months and only eating controlled spartan meals. Ruiz goes home and has the ability to snack when he wants and eats a much richer diet.

Ruiz is so far off the path I don't think any trainer can get him on the path for a championship mindset and even then it might not do it as he is well into his 30's and has tons of mileage due to his fighting from 6 years old or so.
 
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Booth said:
The boxing schedule starts Thursday this week. DAZN is carrying all three cards that I found. I don't think I have ever seen where a fight was listed as 10 or 12 rounds before. The Ruiz Jr and Mielnicki fights are scheduled for 10 or 12 rounds. Unusual.


Thursday, September 3​

  • Montreal Casino, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (DAZN)
    • Lenar Perez vs Thabiso Mchunu, cruiserweights, 10 rounds
    • Moreno Fendero vs Stephane Fondjo, super middleweights, 10 rounds
    • Jhon Orobio vs Antonio Moran, super lightweights, 10 rounds
    • Wyatt Sanford vs Costin Ion, lightweights, 8 rounds

Friday, September 4​

Saturday, September 5​

  • Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland (DAZN)
    • Katie Taylor vs Flora Pili, super lightweights, 10 rounds, for Taylor’s undisputed championship (WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO titles)
    • Dave Allen vs Thomas Carty, heavyweights, 10 rounds
    • Paddy Donovan vs Tyrone McKenna, welterweights, 10 rounds
    • Molly McCann vs Slywia Doligala, bantamweights, 8 rounds
    • Taylor Bevan vs Emmet Brennan, super middleweights, 10 rounds
    • Joe McGrail vs Matthew Boreland, super bantamweights, 10 rounds
    • Adam Olaniyan vs TBA, heavyweights, 4 rounds
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If I can remember to watch the Montreal card I may tune in for the Canadian prospect Sanford he looks like has the potential to win a world level title.

Friday has Vito fighting his first live opponent in Williams who has serious flaws on defense and scouting the Williams losses to Sheeraz and Adames would set up blue print how to beat Williams. Vito needs to step around Williams and out box him as Williams while having poor defense fights at a fast pace and could turn the fight into a phone booth fight which in theory would benefit Williams.

On Saturday the retirement match of Taylor has a plethora of Irish prospects on the undercard with the supposed last fight of Dave Allen who has settled in as gate keeper for British/Irish prospects who fights Carty who in reality has unblemished record as his lone loss was caused by a dislocated knee.

I actually favor Allen as Carty hasn't shown me enough defensively or offensively over the underrated Allen(at the prospect gatekeeper level).
 
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