{"id":241522,"date":"2025-10-26T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:27:07","slug":"fabio-wardley-what-next-for-heavyweights-oleksandr-usyk-anthony-joshua-moses-itauma-and-tyson-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241522\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley: What next for heavyweights Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua, Moses Itauma and Tyson Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising star Moses Itauma is Britain’s next great heavyweight hope – but the 20-year-old is yet to finalise his next contest.<\/p>\n

Itauma further enhanced his reputation with a first-round stoppage of Dillian Whyte in August, extending his perfect record to 13 wins with 11 knockouts.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of that stunning win, Itauma was linked with bouts against Filip Hrgovic, Michael Hunter and domestic rival David Adeleye.<\/p>\n

Team Itauma were considering a fight in December, with Derek Chisora suggesting he would share a card with Itauma on 13 December in Manchester.<\/p>\n

But that date is now in doubt for the Chatham heavyweight, who is learning the hard way about boxing politics.<\/p>\n

WBA ‘regular’ champion Kubrat Pulev was ordered to defend his belt<\/a> against Itauma on 14 October, but the 44 year-old has announced plans to fight Russian Murat Gassiev on 12 December.<\/p>\n

The WBA order means both sides have 30 days to negotiate a deal.<\/p>\n

Queensberry’s Frank Warren, who promotes Itauma, told BBC Sport that “Pulev has to fight Moses next with London and Manchester possible host cities”.<\/p>\n

Itauma has also been suggested as a potential opponent for undisputed champion Usyk, but the Ukrainian downplayed those rumours earlier this month.<\/p>\n

As for Chisora, he appeared on stage at the O2 Arena alongside fellow British heavyweight Whyte and American Jarrell Miller before Wardley’s win over Parker.<\/p>\n

Speaking about potential fights and asked if we could see Chisora and Whyte meet for a third time, Chisora said “yes, if the contract is right”, before adding that it will “100% happen in December”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising star Moses Itauma is Britain’s next great heavyweight hope – but the 20-year-old is yet to finalise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-241522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}