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While Tyson fought more often, climbing to 13-0 inside the first 12 months of his career, Itauma’s rise has been impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n
However, the 21-year-old said outside their appetite for flooring opponents, there are few similarities between him and Tyson.<\/p>\n
“I like it and I don’t [comparisons], because obviously it’s great to be compared to such a legend in the sport, but like you guys [media] mentioned, the comparison is success at a young age,” Itauma said.<\/p>\n
“Apart from that, there’s not really much to say that we’re very similar. I guess we’re kind of a polar opposite. I guess we both just love knockouts.”<\/p>\n
While Itauma tends to shy away from the comparison, promoter Frank Warren is convinced he hasn’t seen a young heavyweight make as much of an impact on the division so early in their career since Tyson.<\/p>\n
“I just think the only one you can compare in terms of impact is Mike Tyson. I can’t think of anybody else, but they’re different guys,” Warren said.<\/p>\n
“They’re different personalities, different fighters … The comparison is the age, and I suppose in the explosive power that they’ve over got.<\/p>\n
“You look at the quality of the opposition he [Tyson] was fighting in his first 14 fights … Nowhere near what Moses is fighting.<\/p>\n
“Moses, we’ve jumped him forward a bit … And he’s delivered. He’s an exceptional talent but there are a couple of question marks: Stamina and whiskers, his chin.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma (L) will fight Jermaine Franklin Jr. on Saturday.\u00a0Queensberry\/Leigh Dawney Moses Itauma has said he doesn’t see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-569667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569667","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=569667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}