Hrgovic: I did not let British judges beside me! And I should have postponed the match with Dubois …

I think I boxed wisely against Joe Joyce, I won the rounds, but I left strength to end. I did not allow British judges to take me, he said Filip Hrgovic (32) a few days after a great victory over the English boxer he returned to the winning paths.

Recall that Hrgovic lost to June 2024 in the match for IBF’s worldwide champion of Daniel Dubois, who in the meantime knocked out Anthony Joshuu.

– I made the wrong assessment. I needed to postpone that match, 99 percent of the fighters would do it. But for a very long time I waited for my opportunity, one big name, a real match, and for years I was harassed. The desire was greater than the rational judgment. I had the faith that I would be half, halfway, to finish it. And the match even went well, the first five or six rounds looked solid, I led on the points. But obviously this disease has exhausted me too much, I lost my strength and failed to do it all the way. In addition, in the second round, both arcades broke. It was very deconcentrated and distracted – Hrgovic said in an interview with Vecernji List.

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With the victory over Joyce « El Animal » he progressed on the boxing chartsand hopes for a new fight in September or October. He is ready to enter the ring with anyone, but it is important for him to have his opponent a established name with a Top 15 Renking in a heavyweight category.

After defeating Dubois, he escaped from the public eye, trained hard, started working with the new coach Abel Sanchez, and both had the same goal, which is that Filip become a world champion.

– I really clicked with Abel. Great man and coach. After a split with Golovkin, he retired from which he came out to my call. We clicked from the first, telephone, conversation. I spent a lot of weeks at his base at Big Bear, California. He has a terrible coaching career, but he has never had a worldwide champion in the heavyweight category and that is his unfulfilled wish, and I hope to fulfill that desire.

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After fighting with Joyce, Hrgovic told the 39-year-old Englishman to go to a boxing pension. Not because he was not a quality opponent, but because of the risk coming with the sport. Hrgovic is aware that boxing can leave lasting consequences and says his goal is to retire as a world champion.