{"id":567618,"date":"2026-03-29T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:47:09","slug":"moses-itauma-talks-filip-hrgovic-who-hell-fight-next-after-obliterating-jermaine-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567618\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma Talks Filip Hrgovic &#038; Who He&#8217;ll Fight Next, After Obliterating Jermaine Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moses Itauma\u2019s impressive run of knockouts continued last night <a href=\"https:\/\/boxing-social.com\/news\/moses-itauma-knocks-out-jermaine-franklin-in-manchester\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/boxing-social.com\/news\/moses-itauma-knocks-out-jermaine-franklin-in-manchester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a fifth round destruction of Jermaine Franklin Jr in Manchester<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Itauma (14-0, 12 KOs) dropped Franklin Jr in third round on route to a destructive fifth round knockout at the CO-OP Live Arena, handing the American his first stoppage defeat. A feat neither Dillian Whyte or Anthony Joshua could achieve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took AJ\u2019s best shots, he took Dillian Whyte\u2019s best shots, but he could take mine,\u201d Itauma <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YGI6Jr-BWfw\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YGI6Jr-BWfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Queensberry Promotions YouTube channel<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Itauma has been struggling to get any rounds under his belt for much of his career. The 21-year-old has stopped his previous nine opponents inside two rounds. His victim list includes Dillian Whyte and Mariusz Wach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoxing is the only sport where you lose a little bit even when you win,\u201d Itauma explained. \u201cEven though my shots wasn\u2019t, I guess, effecting him or hurting him I knew that was little bit a percentage of his armour that goes. It was a matter of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI threw the uppercut and then I stepped off him to go to the body and then switch it back up top,\u201d Itauma added. \u201cThe I popped him with he uppercut and could see that he was all over the place. So, I was like, yeah this is my moment, and then he\u2019s already face planted the floor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk inevitably turns toward who is next for Itauma? Many of the heavyweight division\u2019s major players are tied up over the two months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted Hrgovic but obviously he\u2019s boxing Dave Allen,\u201d Itauma added. \u201cI don\u2019t know [who is next]. I suppose we will go back to the drawing board and see who is available and offer a few fights out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MUST READ:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma\u2019s impressive run of knockouts continued last night with a fifth round destruction of Jermaine Franklin Jr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,12925,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-567618","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-moses-itauma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567618","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=567618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}