Joe Joyce will face Filip Hrgovic on April 5 in Manchester photo Credit: Stephen Dunkley/Queensberry/Ed Mulholland/Matchroom
Joe Joyce rejected the suggestions that he should retire because he is preparing to return against Filip Hrgovic next month.
Joyce will face the former amateur rival of HRGovic in winning showdown at the Co-OP Live Arena in Manchester on April 5 live in Dazn.
“The Juggernaut” was won by one of the last four competition Loss from Derek Chisor In July last year, after dropping in the ninth round.
Some called the 39-year-old to hang gloves, but Putney’s man believes that victory over the Croatian, who has the 10 best rankings in three of the four management bodies, can lead him to compete for the title of world champion.
“He has something to offer me, where he is in the rankings and other things, so it’s a good test to bring me back to the mix.
“Beating him certainly entangled me.
“There is no point in writing someone or a sermon to retire because I am still busy and come back.
“I’m coming back to the top.”
Whyte withdrew from the clash with Joyce through an injury photo: Leigh Dawney/Queensberry Promotions
“Juggernaut” was to face Dillian Whyte, but the Brixton man was excluded Finger injury.
Hrgovic wants to reject after the eighth round break in Daniel Dubois in June last year.
And Joyce, who defeated the 32-year-old at World Series of Boxing [WSB] In 2013, when making a decision, he claims that there is no fear of delayed change in the opponent.
Chisora dropped and overtook Joyce in July photo loan: Stephen Dunkley/Queensberry Promotions
“I know Hrgovic, of course, from the experience of WSB and see him by amateurs,” he added.
“He is a challenging warrior.
Hrgovic wants to bounce back after the defeat with Dubois
“It’s a good replacement to keep a sturdy card.
“From other choices it must be a good level to complain about this fight, so I made corrections with my team and I intend to get him challenging and beat him.”
San Diego (May 10, 2025) – “El Vaquero” returned to Sunchang Arena San Diego, trying to win his fans. The victory won, simply the way he imagined it.
Emanuel Navarrete He kept his lightweight WBO Junior World on Saturday evening with a technical decision from the eighth round over the Filipino claimant Charly Suarez. The fight was suspended early due to the cut -off of the left eye of Navarrete, which was ruled by judge Edward Collantes, was caused by an accidental head title.
Navarrete (40-2-1, 32 KO) came out shooting, firing wild right hands and jumping left hooks that bloodied the nose of Suarez in the opening round. Suarez (18-1, 10 Kos), Olympian 2016, found moments of success, sometimes landing on Navarrete’s head, and sometimes only on his gloves.
In the sixth, Navarrete suffered a cut, and they both still traded with ponderous shots in seventh place, when Mexico began to bleed abundantly. The ring doctor waved him just after Bell sounded to start the eighth round.
Navarrete won the results of 77-76 2x and 78-75.
“This is the spirit of a warrior to be a Mexico who helped us today,” said Navarrete. “I felt good, I felt mighty, I felt complete. Unfortunately, what happened with my head, of course that it ended. But when we fought, I felt good.
“From the first moment I knew it was the title of the head. He completely divided the eyebrows and from the first moment I noticed that it was the title of the head.”
Suarez said: “I’m sorrowful at the moment, but it’s part of the game and I know that Navarrete won the fight, but it’s part of the game. I would like to make a rematch. I want a rematch with Navarrete.”
“This is a fight I have wanted for years and I would like to share a ring with this man.
“And then we could throw [Billy Joe] Saunders at its end. “
Turks Alalshikhwhose magazine Ring introduced the fight Eubank Jr vs Benn, said before the fight that the winner would be in the queue for the clash with Canelo.
The Mexican Supergivid concluded four fights with Alalshikh in February, starting with a unilateral victory over William Scull in Riyjad at the beginning of this month to become a superpocaranie champion.
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Saunders was involved in an argument with the Eubank JR team on the night of a fight after he was refused to enter the wardrobe to check manual packaging.
The 35-year-old has not fought since the defeat with Alvarez in May 2021, but said that he was going to return to the ring in September last week.
And Eubank Jr insists that bad blood remains with the Saunders, who defeated him with a divided decision in 2014.
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