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Antonio Plazibat
Croatian power line continued. Finishes tournaments; the open question is the five-round championship distance.
Antonio Plazibat continues the Croatian heavyweight line that runs from Branko Cikatić through Mirko Cro Cop, and fights with the finishing intent that lineage implies. He won a GLORY heavyweight tournament with knockouts rather than decisions.
His limitation is the familiar one for a power heavyweight under this ruleset: what wins a three-fight tournament night is not necessarily what wins a five-round championship fight against an opponent who will not be drawn into an early exchange. The division's title has for a decade belonged to whoever can still work in round five.
He is among the more likely challengers to eventually solve that, being young enough to add the conditioning base without losing the power.