Tag: boxing quotes

Sep 1, 2026

“Let me ask my young friend something: is the chin important? The chin is important. I’m the present and he’s definitely the future.” — Filip Hrgović | Quote of the Day

Filip Hrgović, the 34-year-old Croatian heavyweight who was outboxed and floored by the unbeaten 21-year-old prodigy Moses Itauma for eight rounds at the O2 Arena, then somehow found the energy to stop him in the ninth round and become Croatia’s first world heavyweight champion — the rhetorical question he asked his young opponent into the microphone afterwards, which circled the world as his Wikipedia page surged past 108,000 views the day after the fight.

Filip Hrgović

Aug 30, 2026

“In football, if you give 100 percent while your teammates don’t, you lose. With boxing, the outcome is in your hands.” — Moses Itauma | Quote of the Day

Moses Itauma, the 21-year-old British heavyweight from Chatham, Kent, who grew up in Slovakia as the target of racist abuse and turned his back on football because the result in boxing is never someone else’s to decide — the sentence that explains why the world’s most hyped young fighter chose a sport where he answers for everything himself. His words circulated everywhere in the days around his vacant IBF title shot against Filip Hrgović at the O2 Arena.

Moses Itauma