{"id":169619,"date":"2025-09-30T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169619\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:23:09","slug":"michael-hunter-david-adeleye-explored-as-options-for-moses-itauma-dec-13-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169619\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hunter, David Adeleye Explored As Options For Moses Itauma Dec. 13 In Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> is having trouble finding an opponent for his next fight on Dec. 13 in Manchester.
According to The Ring’s Mike Coppinger, however, two names being explored are Michael Hunter<\/a> and David Adeleye<\/a>.
Coppinger divulged the news on the latest episode of “Inside The Ring”, on DAZN, noting that efforts to get the likes of Filip Hrgovic<\/a> and Zhilei Zhang<\/a> on board for a fight with Itauma have fallen by the wayside. <\/p>\n

Hunter hasn’t been in action since last December, when he stopped Christian Larrondo Garcia in the fifth round. Adeleye fought in the summer against Hrgovic and lost by unanimous decision. <\/p>\n

Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs), perhaps the most exciting young talent in boxing today, was last in action against Dillian Whyte on Aug. 16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the same night Adeleye lost to Hrgovic. <\/p>\n

The fight was supposed to be the 20-year-old’s first litmus test but it was anything but as Itauma stopped his man inside two minutes<\/a> at ANB Arena. <\/p>\n

Itauma is The Ring’s No. 9-ranked heavyweight and he’s No. 1 with the WBA and WBO. The WBC has him at No. 4 while the IBF ranks him fifth.<\/p>\n

A future fight with the winner of Joseph Parker-Fabio Wardley<\/a>, who will clash for the pair’s respective WBO and WBA “interim” belts on Oct. 25 in London, could take place in 2026.
Should Ring and undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> vacate either or both of those two belts, Itauma would be in line to fight for a full version of a title in the next 12 months.
New episodes of \u201cInside The Ring<\/a>\u201d premiere every Monday on DAZN at 2 p.m. ET and 11 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is having trouble finding an opponent for his next fight on Dec. 13 in Manchester. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-169619","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-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169619","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=169619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}