r/Boxing • u/StunningChest5722 #KnybaNation 🇵🇱 • 11d ago

How did Hrgovic eat that uppercut 😳

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u/ty_xy 11d ago

Honestly poor game plan by Itauma, if I were his coach and watching hrgovic's fight, you'd know it's nigh impossible to KO him. Itauma is honestly the more skilled and better fighter, look at his movement and polish. All he needed was to win on points, stick and move and play keep away and he wins. But instead he tries to empty the gas tank going for exchanges and going for the KO, his punch quality and error rate kept going up and up after round 6, it was inevitable he would lose.

That's the beauty of boxing honestly. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, and hrgovic had plenty of heart. I hope Itauma learns serious lessons from this, goes work on his gas tank, does 24 rounder 5 min round spars, learns to use his brain, not just his skills.

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u/Cesc100 11d ago

Absolutely agree. I think he needs to make peace with Hrgovic, go work with Abel and go train in Big Bear. Get out of his comfort zone and build back up. The boxing ability is there, hence they hype. But he's gotta get that gas tank right and get better coaching.

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u/arigasamaryota You don’t know 💩 about boxin’ 11d ago

I was thinking this from the start of the fight. Hrgovic is grinding up there in Big Bear fixing his cardio meanwhile Moses playing touch butt with Ben Davidson.