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<\/a>Email<\/a>Print<\/a>Open Extended ReactionsESPN has live updates from Manchester as Moses Itauma returns to the ring against American Jermaine Franklin Jr.<\/p>\n
Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs) is looking to step up this year and it starts against Franklin (24-2, 15 KOs) whose only two professional defeats have come on points against Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte.<\/p>\n
– Frank Warren: Oleksandr Usyk ‘doesn’t want’ Moses Itauma fight<\/a> 21-year-old Itauma has had a remarkable career so far and he will hope to kick on to potentially fight for a world title this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Multiple Authors Mar 29, 2026, 04:56 AMEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsMoses Itaum (L) takes on Jermaine Franklin Jr. in…\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-570459","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\/570459","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=570459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570459\/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=570459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Moses Itauma: Heavyweight boxing’s reluctant superstar<\/a>
– Itauma’s ferocious rise is similar to Tyson’s – how does it compare?<\/a><\/p>\n