Britain’s Moses Itauma loses bruising heavyweight title fight to Filip Hrgovic

Itauma’s trainer Ben Davison threw in the towel but referee Howard Foster had already intervened.

Filip Hrgovic produced one of the shocks of the boxing year, stopping an exhausted Moses Itauma in the ninth round at The O2 to win the vacant IBF heavyweight title and become Croatia's first world heavyweight champion.

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Itauma, 21, was looking to become the youngest heavyweight champion since the great Mike Tyson, but he found himself outmatched against the experienced veteran, who becomes Croatia’s maiden heavyweight belt-holder. Chatham-based Itauma had slaughtered every opponent in his way en route to a face-off with Hrgovic, but t