Filip Hrgovic vs. David Adeleye and Hayato Tsutsumi Added To Moses Itauma-Dillian Whyte Aug. 16 Card
Matt Penn
Jun 12, 2025
2 min read
Filip Hrgovic and David Adeleye will clash in a heavyweight fight on the August 16 card set to be headlined by Moses Itauma and Dillian Whyte in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hrgovic and Adeleye were both last in action on the same card in April when the Croat...
Filip Hrgovic and David Adeleye will clash in a heavyweight fight on the August 16 card set to be headlined by Moses Itauma and Dillian Whyte in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hrgovic (18-1, 14 KOs) and Adeleye (14-1, 13 KOs) were both last in action on the same card in April when the Croatian beat Joe Joyce in the main event of the Manchester bill.
In the co-feature of the evening, Adeleye won the vacant British heavyweight title in a controversial clash with Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva.
Adeleye, who was arguably losing the fight with Tshikeva up until the 6th-round stoppage, capitalised on a break enforced by referee Roy Kearney, landing a left hook to the chin of his opponent before finishing the fight moments later.
A rematch was ordered by the British Boxing Board of Control and it was set to take place on August 23 in Manchester, according to the latest circular which was released on Thursday afternoon.
But Adeleye will go in a different direction against a higher-calibre opponent in Hrgovic, who has lost just once in his career to IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois.
Hrgovic outpointed Joyce across 10 brutal rounds of action when he was in the ring last. He also holds a controversial win over Zhilei Zhang.
Adeleye has competed on a Riyadh Season card before, back in October 2023 on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Francis Ngannou. He was knocked out in the 7th round of his British and Commonwealth title clash with Fabio Wardley.
Elsewhere on the card, Ring ambassador Hayato Tsutsumi (7-0, 4 KOs) will take on former British junior lightweight title contender Qais Ashfaq (13-3-1, 5 KOs), who last fought in December, drawing with Levi Giles.
Tsutsumi's younger brother Reito is set to compete on 'The Ring III', The Ring's third ever boxing event at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York City on July 12.
Rounding off the Aug. 16 card in Riyadh is Nick Ball's defence of his WBA featherweight title against Australian Sam Goodman, who moves up from junior featherweight.
Ray Ford, in his second fight at 130 pounds, will take on former IBF champion Anthony Cacace in what should be an all-action encounter. Cacace last fought on May 10 against Leigh Wood, stopping him in the 9th round.
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