BBC Sport<\/a> after the win, British boxing legend Hatton urged Itauma\u2019s team to \u2018hold fire\u2019 when pursuing undisputed king Usyk, assessing the heavyweight landscape and saying there is no need at this stage.<\/p>\n\u201cI think they might have stepped him up a bit too quick. It was a very experienced performance, way beyond his years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re talking about Usyk next, woah, let\u2019s just hold fire there just a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsyk will only have a couple [more fights]. If you look at the heavyweights coming through, it\u2019s wide open for Itauma and I think he can clear up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hatton then suggested a much more cautious approach to Itauma\u2019s path, floating two British names \u2013 though the higher rather of the two, Fabio Wardley, shared the same trainer as the young gun.<\/p>\n
\u201cFabio Wardley or Frazer Clarke, which are good domestic fights.<\/p>\n
\u201cFighting domestic fights to get your fanbase rising. He has got his fanbase rising all the time, but I think that\u2019s what I\u2019d do.<\/p>\n
\u201cHold fire with Usyk because he\u2019s going to get even better, so why fight him now? Get a bit better and then fight him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Itauma is expected back out in December, with the likes of Kubrat Pulev and Filip Hrgovic touted to fill the opposite corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton has weighed in on what Moses Itauma should do next and whether or not that includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-102722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}