It was supposed to be a test for Moses Itauma (13-0), scheduled for 30 minutes, but Dillian Whyte (31-4) became his eighth first-round victim in the main event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Itauma softened the body with shots as powerful as armor-piercing rounds and dropped him with a mean right-hooking head shot that rendered his legs into spaghetti.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The 20-year-old heavyweight retained his WBA International belt and the WBO Intercontinental title, while adding the vacant Commonwealth title.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Whyte ate a shotgun jab 15 seconds into the fight, instantly earning his respect. It was the first sign his body wouldn\u2019t stand the southpaw\u2019s bashing. Then Itauma connected an overhand left downstairs and sensed his foe\u2019s vulnerability like a lion pouncing on a wounded gazelle. He followed up a few seconds later with a jab to the head that brought Whyte\u2019s hands up, and launched a spear to the belly.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0The rest must have been a blur for Whyte and the thought of \u201cwhy did y\u2019all sign me up for this\u201d must have been the first to cross his mind as soon as his corner attended to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Itauma finished it off with a combination to the head that hurt Whyte, a fierce scourge in the corner and hooked him below the ear as he tried to escape slowly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Slovak-born Brit thought the fight would last longer, but he kept spotting openings. \u201cI keep seeing this happen. I can\u2019t miss it.\u201d He was asked about who he wants to fight, and he answered that Agit Kabayel (26-0), who won the vacant WBC interim heavyweight title in February, and Joseph Parker, who retained the WBO interim heavyweight title on the same February card, deserve it.<\/p>\n
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Additionally, Nick Ball defeated Sam Goodman in a 12-round unanimous decision, keeping his WBA featherweight title. Hayato Tsutsumi stopped Qais Ashfaq in round three. And Filip Hrgovi\u0107 won a 10-round unanimous decision over David Adeleye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was supposed to be a test for Moses Itauma (13-0), scheduled for 30 minutes, but Dillian Whyte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-75229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75229","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=75229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}