{"id":57276,"date":"2025-08-09T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57276\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:26:07","slug":"theres-more-that-i-want-to-do-and-achieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57276\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There\u2019s More That I Want To Do And Achieve’"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter how much time passes, and no matter how many new faces pop up, Dillian Whyte <\/a>remains in the mix at the heavyweight division. That, however, could be coming to an end.
On Aug. 16 on DAZN PPV,<\/a> Whyte will be thrown in with Moses Itauma in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On the surface level, something isn\u2019t adding up. Whyte is 37, has been an interim world champion <\/a>and has fought and beaten some of the best heavyweights of his generation. <\/p>\n

Itauma, on the other hand, hasn\u2019t fought a contender or a former champion. This will also be the first time that he’s scheduled for 12 rounds. At 20, he isn\u2019t even legally allowed to drink alcohol in the States yet. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

With a 17-year age gap, this fight doesn\u2019t make much sense. Unless, of course, Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) is being set up to fail. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re trying to feed me to the wolves and make me get torn apart,\u201d Whyte said to The Ring<\/a>. \u201cBut I’ve been an alpha male. I’ve been at the bottom of the pack, I’ve been in the middle of the pack, I’ve been at the top of the pack. I might be an older wolf, but I still got teeth. Don\u2019t play with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He knows he\u2019s being doubted, but Whyte is feeling good about himself. He\u2019s stopped his last three opponents and believes he has more than enough left in the tank to make a run. <\/p>\n

Itauma will eventually have his time, Whyte said, but it won\u2019t come at his expense. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more that I want to do and achieve. I focus on the future, not the past.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter how much time passes, and no matter how many new faces pop up, Dillian Whyte remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":["post-57276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57276","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=57276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}