Unbeaten and highly ranked heavyweight contender Filip Hrgovic has placed some additional pressure on his broad shoulders by stating how he will retire from the sport if he loses to Daniel Dubois. The Hrgovic-Dubois fight will as fans know, be a most intriguing feature of the stacked and stellar card set for June 1 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Go back a year or so ago, and a fan would have shot back Hrgovic’s name if asked who would win in a fight between him and Dubois. But Dubois put on a pretty decent showing when he challenged Oleksandr Usyk last summer, and “Dynamite” then showed strength of character in scoring a late stoppage win over Jarrell Miller in his next fight.
Hrgovic, meanwhile, has not looked particularly special in his last two fights, with him labouring to a late stoppage win over big underdog Demsey McKean last August, and then wiping out an even bigger underdog in Mark de Mori, in what was really a nothing…
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