CO-OP LIVE, MANCHESTER — Defeat is not an option for Joe Joyce or Filip Hrgovic on Saturday night if they want to return to the top table of the heavyweight division.
Joyce (16-3, 15 KOs) and Hrgovic (17-1, 14 KOs) won silver and bronze respectively at the 2016 Olympic Games and, at various points since, have looked like the coming men in the professional ranks.
But back-to-back knockout losses to Zhilei Zhang in 2023 sent Joyce's stock tumbling. A defeat to the great survivor Derek Chisora last time out means he will have few appealing avenues left open at 39 years of age if he suffers a fourth career defeat tonight.
Hrgovic was fortunate to come through his own tough examination against Zhang but charted a careful course to the cusp of the IBF title, only to be stopped by Daniel Dubois last June. The 32-year-old Croatian took this assignment as late replacement for Dillian Whyte.
WATCH: Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic live on DAZN
Dubois now holds a portion of the heavyweight title, having plotted his own phenomenal turnaround since suffering a sole career defeat to Joyce in 2020. That underlines how a fortune-shifting victory is often only just around the corner for a heavyweight who can bang, but neither of these destructive but flawed big men can afford another backwards step.
In the co-main event David Adelayde and Jeamie Tshikeva will contest the vacant British heavyweight title after an ill-tempered build-up, while British Olympian Delicious Orie makes his professional debut.
Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic full card results
- Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic, heavyweights
- David Adeleye vs. Jeamie Tshikeva for the vacancy BBB of C heavyweight title
- Jack Rafferty ( c) vs. Cory O'Regan for the Commonwealth super lightweight title.
- Juergen Uldedaj vs. Gerardo Mellado, cruiserweights
- Delicious Orie vs. Milos Veletic, heavyweights
- Khaleel Majid def. Alex Murphy (UD 10), super lightweights
- Royston Barney-Smith def. Cesar Ignacio Paredes (PTS 8), super featherweights
- Mark Chamberlain def. Miguel Angel Scaringi (PTS 8), super lightweights
Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic tune-in info
- Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
- Location: Co-op Live - Manchester, UK
- Time: 5 p.m. GMT | 12 p.m. ET | 9 a.m. PT
- Main event start time (approx.): 10 p.m. GMT | 5 p.m. ET | 2 p.m. PT
- Live stream: DAZN
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