Tyson Fury says he believes that Moses Itauma will \u201cwreck\u201d undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and any of the older, well-known fighters in the division. The retired former two-time champion Fury says the 20-year-old Itaum would beat Usyk because it\u2019s a \u201cyoung man vs. an old man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listening to Fury talk, one can\u2019t help but think he\u2019s still bitter about losing to Usyk twice. So, his prediction of a dire ending for him against the unproven prospect Itauma is one way for \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 to get a minor victory over his conqueror.<\/p>\n
The risk of fighting Usyk<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Fury fails to mention that Usyk knocked out the then-25-year-old Daniel Dubois in their first fight in 2023, and then did it again in their rematch in 2025. \u2018Dynamite\u2019 Dubois was 27.<\/p>\n
If Itauma\u2019s promoters, Queensberry, want to toss him in with Usyk in a risky gamble before the end of the year, they could live to regret their decision. Usyk could expose Itauma as a fake just as he did with Dubois, ruining his marketability.<\/p>\n
It would be wiser for Queensberry to continue playing it safe with Itauma. He\u2019s fought no one during his short pro and brief 20-fight amateur career to prepare him for a fighter like Usyk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep getting asked about young Moses Itauma fighting Oleksandr Usyk and fighting other big names. In my opinion, he\u2019s [Itauma] not someone that doesn\u2019t know boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s someone that has been there and won every single belt and everything there is to win in boxing and done very well,\u201d said Tyson Fury on social media, giving his two cents on a potential fight between undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and the still unproven prospect\/contender Moses Itauma.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoxing is a young man\u2019s game, like I told Wladimir Klitschko when he was 37 [Correction: Wladimir was 39 and 8 months when he fought Fury in 2015]. It\u2019s a young man\u2019s game. It waits for nobody. Moses Itauma would wreck all the old men in the division: Usyk, AJ, [Jarrell] Miller. Whoever there is that\u2019s old, [Zhilei] Zhang, Luis Ortiz<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these big names of the past are a spent force. Even the world champion now that took my belts and given to, Moses will wreck him because it\u2019s a young man vs. an old man. An old man can\u2019t mess with a young man,\u201d said Fury.<\/p>\n
How Itauma\u2019s Hype Was Manufactured<\/p>\n
Fury seems sold on Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs) after watching him destroy the old, painfully slow, gunshy Dillian Whyte in one round last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
It was the perfect matchmaking on Queensberry\u2019s part to pick the 37-year-old Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) as the opponent for Itauma to create the pseudo mystique of invincibility.<\/p>\n
Fans have naively bought into it, believing that Itauma is the next superstar heavyweight of boxing. Like Fury, they\u2019ve drunk the Kool-Aid and failed to take note of how poor Dillian had looked in six of his last eight fights dating back to 2019.<\/p>\n
You have to follow the sport closely to know that Whyte had looked fragile since his fight with Oscar Rivas six years ago. \u2018The Body Snatcher\u2019 was dropped in the ninth round and was hurt in the twelfth round as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoses would beat Usyk now\u201d \ud83d\udc40@Tyson_Fury<\/a> believes Moses Itauma is the real deal \ud83e\udd1d pic.twitter.com\/xSOeBMQu66<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Queensberry Promotions (@Queensberry) August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n