{"id":47275,"date":"2025-08-05T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47275\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:10:12","slug":"i-hated-boxing-before-davison-brought-the-love-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47275\/","title":{"rendered":"I hated boxing before Davison brought the love back"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON, England – Moses Itauma<\/a> has revealed that Ben Davison reignited his passion for boxing after he had fallen out of love with the sport after just eight professional fights.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old has been hailed as the future of the heavyweight division after his faultless start to life as a pro, with 12 fights, 12 wins and 10 KOs since his debut in January 2023.<\/p>\n

Itauma’s next test comes in the form of Dillian Whyte<\/a>, who he will face in the headline fight of the Esports World Cup event on August 16 in Riyadh live on DAZN pay-per-view<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But even though he is still in the early years of what is expected to be a long and successful career, Itauma has now admitted he had already begun to hate boxing before teaming up with Essex-based Davison at his Harlow gym in the spring of 2024.<\/p>\n

“When I first joined the gym, Ben kept telling me that deep down I loved boxing,” Itauma told DAZN.<\/p>\n

“But at that point in time I really did feel like I hated boxing. But he kind of lit the fire back up. <\/p>\n

“He showed me there is more to boxing than just throwing one-twos. There is a whole chess game to this boxing.”<\/p>\n

Since joining Davison, the right-handed southpaw has won four fights, with three ending in the second round and one, against Demsey McKean, finishing after just 117 seconds.<\/p>\n

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The Australian was 22-1, 14 KOs at the time, with his only defeat coming late against Filip Hrgovic<\/a>, but Itauma disposed of him with ease in what was considered the toughest test of his career at the time.<\/p>\n

Now it is Whyte who is expected to come in and provide the Slovakia-born youngster with a challenge and Itauma is refusing to look past the 37-year-old.<\/p>\n

“It’s step-by-step and fight-by-fight,” Itauma added. “If you’re going to ask me what my plan is in this division it\u2019s just to knock Dillian Whyte out I guess.<\/p>\n

“He’s like another threat. Obviously, since I’ve started my career all of them have posed a threat to me so with Dillian, it’s just about trying to execute the game plan as usual.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, England – Moses Itauma has revealed that Ben Davison reignited his passion for boxing after he had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,27930,12925,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-47275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dillian-whyte","12":"tag-moses-itauma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}