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.