Comments Thread For: Hrgovic: I'm Next In Line For The Heavyweight Championship Of The World

[James]

De Mori is not even ranked by the IBF! Why are they allowing this behavior from their #1 contender?

Why is Fury allowed to do what ever the **** he wants??

[Tag, You're Hit]

He has Croatian roots and his wife is from Croatia. I believe that Hrgovic gave him this fight so that he can get a payday. Something like Fury did with Chisora, he fought him just bcs they are friends....this is rason why he is fighting de mori. But that is not important. He does not want to make any risk to lose possotion and that is fine by me. Joe joyce now looks like a fool after losing to ZZ.

Yeah, I read De Mori (an Australian) lived in Croatia for a decade. Say what you will about The Juggernaut's decision to fight Zhang. At least he has balls. So, he has my respect. For what it's worth, if he fights AJ for the IBF strap I don't think Hrgovic wins that fight. And, again, fighting #296 on BoxRec? Surely, he can fight someone 10x better than him and still not be in danger.

[kiaba360]

Why is Fury allowed to do what ever the **** he wants??

The WBC is kissing Fury's ass now because of all the Saudi money that's involved. Giving Ngannou a ranking is a damn joke. Sulaiman has the audacity to complain about Ring ****zine when his organization does a good job in sabotaging the integrity of Boxing all the time.

[JakeTheBoxer]

De Mori is not even ranked by the IBF! Why are they allowing this behavior from their #1 contender?

Why wouldn`t they? It is just a stay busy fight.

[James]

Yeah, I read De Mori (an Australian) lived in Croatia for a decade. Say what you will about The Juggernaut's decision to fight Zhang. At least he has balls. So, he has my respect. For what it's worth, if he fights AJ for the IBF strap I don't think Hrgovic wins that fight. And, again, fighting #296 on BoxRec? Surely, he can fight someone 10x better than him and still not be in danger.

Sure he can fight 10x and not to be in danger. Just to be clear I was really dissapointed by his choice to fight De Mori but soon he will fight Wallin or Joshua and he will give us answers is he top contender or hype job made by Sauerland brothers. I do not believe that winner of Fury Usyk will fight him.

Regarding Joyce, dont get me wrong but he has nothing from getting respect from you for fighting ZZ. He has only regrets for losing title shoot that he will never get. No one will remember JJ vs ZZ in history.

[Robi13]

I feel this guy has a legit chance of beating either one of usyk or fury.

[James]

I feel this guy has a legit chance of beating either one of usyk or fury.

His amateur record is 60-10. People are not aware that he has big experience.

[Tag, You're Hit]

Sure he can fight 10x and not to be in danger. Just to be clear I was really dissapointed by his choice to fight De Mori but soon he will fight Wallin or Joshua and he will give us answers is he top contender or hype job made by Sauerland brothers. I do not believe that winner of Fury Usyk will fight him.

Regarding Joyce, dont get me wrong but he has nothing from getting respect from you for fighting ZZ. He has only regrets for losing title shoot that he will never get. No one will remember JJ vs ZZ in history.

If JJ sticks with it, I think he'll get another title shot. The 4 belts will be split up soon enough. And he has a silver medal from the Olympics (that should have been a gold - we saw directly the corruption on that was outed, but alas they didn't change the results). I'm sure he's made a lot more $ than Hrgovic,

[crimsonfalcon07]

But why they dont want to fight mandatory? Where is the problem? Other guys deserve their shoot..if they wait for rematches it can take 2 years....so...if they are true champions and tjey are really the best on the planet in this moment why should they be afraid of fighting Hrgovic? Many here think thet Hrgovic is overrated...so... Try champion would fight his mandatory and made a statement that he is the best. Everything else is bull****ting

There's a difference between not wanting to fight the mandatory, and being contractually prevented from doing so. While I don't like rematch clauses, they exist, and pretending they're not a legally binding thing is ******. Rather than just order the winner of the rematch to fight the contender, the IBF just strips their champions and lets the contender fight against a lower ranked guy for the title, which is ******.

If the IBF really doesn't like rematch clauses, they could refuse to sanction fights that involve a rematch clause. But they go ahead and allow it, so it's just BS virtue signaling from them. It's a shame that fighters these days need to have the safety of "you have to beat me twice" in order to sign for the big fights, but it is what it is.

For my part, none of them are the real champ until they beat the man, or it becomes clear the champ won't fight them, eg, when they take on a voluntary fight against a lesser opponent or officially move out of their division. Devin Haney became real champ when he beat Kambosos, who beat the man that beat the man. Shakur and Tank will be champs when Devin admits he's not going back to 135. Tszyu will be champ when he beats Mell, or when Mell takes his next voluntary, or moves out of 154. In contrast, Andrade vacated his belt and ran to another division rather than face his mandatory. It's pretty clear he's not going back to 160, because there's no big fights there, so Janibek's the man there. Ennis won't be champ until Crawford officially abandons 147. If Crawford stays at 147, he's the real champ.

168 is a mess because the WBC and WBA refuse to order their mandatory fights, so for now Canelo remains champ. If he takes another weak voluntary rather than fight either David, assuming they clear their next fights, he's a duck IMO.

[James]

If JJ sticks with it, I think he'll get another title shot. The 4 belts will be split up soon enough. And he has a silver medal from the Olympics (that should have been a gold - we saw directly the corruption on that was outed, but alas they didn't change the results). I'm sure he's made a lot more $ than Hrgovic,

He is limited. He has no defence. He stops shots with his head. Big punchers will destroy him again. His only weapon is durability, high pace.
He made more $ for sure. He is from GB, big market.