Dillian Whyte\u2019s trainer, the veteran Buddy McGirt, isn\u2019t counting on tape study to guide Whyte\u2019s plan ahead of the heavyweight\u2019s August 16 fight with Moses Itauma.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be one thousand percent honest with you, I have never seen Moses fight,\u201d McGirt said in a recent interview. \u201cSo I really don\u2019t know what he\u2019s ready for. He\u2019s gotta bring it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cI says, \u2018Dill, listen, let\u2019s just be realistic here. What could this kid do that you haven\u2019t already seen?\u2019 But can that kid ask the same question? Can Dillian do something that this kid hasn\u2019t seen before?\u201d<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Whyte (31-3, 21 KO) has definitely seen just about all there is to see from the modern heavyweight division. He\u2019s faced and lost to Anthony Joshua, Alexander Povetkin, and Tyson Fury, and he\u2019s faced and beaten Joseph Parker, Derek Chisora (twice), and Povetkin, among others.<\/p>\n
The longtime contender has never quite won a world title, but he\u2019s been in there with several of the division\u2019s best. The 20-year-old Itauma (12-0, 10 KO), whom McGirt calls \u201ca good young prospect,\u201d seems to have all the promise in the world, but even the most heavily-hyped and believed-in prospects do sometimes come up short when they make a jump up the ladder to face stiffer competition.<\/p>\n
The biggest question, perhaps, is whether today\u2019s Dillian Whyte is stiffer enough competition to throw a wrench into the big plans in place for Itauma\u2019s immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte\u2019s trainer, the veteran Buddy McGirt, isn\u2019t counting on tape study to guide Whyte\u2019s plan ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-55594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55594","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=55594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}