Itauma v Hrgovic: Things Just Got Spicy
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What sparked the on‑stage altercation between Moses Itauma and Filip Hrgovic?
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This is Five Live Boxing.
On Saturday night we'll find out who is going to become the new IBF heavyweight champion of the world. Will it be 21-year-old Moses Itama or will it be the Croatian Filip Hergovic? I know one thing, all week it's been lovely. Today it was different. It's been very spicy. I'm Steve Bunts and this is Five Live Boxing.
After a week of respect and a gentle, let's get it right, a gentle build-up in the last 30 minutes here in Spittlefield's Market in London's East End. This fight has suddenly changed, massively and dramatically changed. There was an altercation on the stage when Moses Atama was way after Moses Atama had weighed in and after Philip Hurgovich had weighed in. Sure, they stood face to face. It was the usual stuff, the usual insults. I'll do this, I'll do this, that type of stuff. And then suddenly after about two minutes. Most of the time I pushed Hergovich, who's a big lump, 19 odd stone, off the stage. The stage is about two and a half, three foot. Hergovich went down. You could see he was fuming from our position up here in the balcony.
He jumped up on the stage. The security got in the middle of it. Frank Warren, the promoter, we'll be hearing from him in a second. He got in the middle of it, and then Hergovitch landed a clean slap. You could hear it, it was crisp in the air. You could hear it. Then there was a Real melee, lots of security, lots of people, members of each entourage, keeping the two fighters apart. It certainly came alive. I don't necessarily like this type of thing, but having been with the fighters all week and having been with them a lot over the past few years, I can tell you it's not the way they do business, but it was serious. Richie Woodall was standing next to me, former Olympic bronze medalist, European. Commonwealth Champion at middleweight and world champion, WBC World Champion at Super Middleweight.
Rich we were watching it just looking down, thinking we were watching just a normal thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then suddenly we got serious drama.
Yeah, it just exploded, didn't it? And even yesterday in in the press conference there was so no no sort of signs that this was gonna happen. And yet and yet I I actually when looking at it and thinking about it now, it's probably one nil to hergovich because if anything it showed that Moses just lost it a little bit. I mean they were that they were trying to restrain him like you wouldn't believe there was a lot of people on him, six or seven people. It wasn't for show, no it was genuine. And like I said, it won't hurt it, it won't hurt the promotion, though. It won't hurt. No. It certainly won't hurt the promotion, but I've just seen a side of Moses, well everyone did, that we hadn't seen before. And yeah, a little bit alarmed by that because I always thought he was very uh calm and cool.
But this is fine, he's fine for the heavyweight championship of the world. And it just boiled over, and he just let his guard slip a little bit there, and he just showed a side to him, which uh some people might like, but I didn't like that. Because I like the cool uh Mozartama rather than that. Time rather than that, yes, definitely. Yes, definitely.
So so Rich, you in your opinion, 1-0 to Hugovich. 1-0 to Hogovich, in your opinion, yeah. I think so. I think I might agree with you. Now, Ugo Monia, who's going to be present who's the the England Rugby player, is going to be presenting the show tomorrow from the O2 when we go live at 10 pm on 5 Live. Ugo was down there because he was down there waiting to do an interview with Frank One.
How did Frank Warren describe the slap and melee that broke out on the stage?
So he saw it up close, not from five or six feet away. When Hugo come back.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What sparked the on‑stage altercation between Moses Itauma and Filip Hrgovic?
0:00–4:06
2
How did Frank Warren describe the slap and melee that broke out on the stage?
4:06–8:20
3
What do Bunty and Richie Woodhall think the fighters’ mindsets reveal after the incident?
8:20–12:29
4
Why are the betting odds heavily in favour of Moses Itauma and what could shift them?
12:29–16:13
5
Which tactical strengths and weaknesses will decide the fight for Hrgovic and Itauma?
16:13–19:59
6
How might the fighters’ styles play out in the early rounds – a physical chess match?
19:59–24:03
7
What are the possible outcomes for each boxer if the fight goes the distance or ends early?
24:03–27:35
8
What lasting impact could this bout have on the heavyweight division and the fighters’ careers?
27:35–31:24