{"id":229798,"date":"2025-10-28T09:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:15:06","slug":"dillian-whyte-delivers-honest-verdict-on-moses-itauma-ability-after-ko-loss-i-thought-hed-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229798\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte Delivers Honest Verdict On Moses Itauma Ability After KO Loss: “I Thought He’d Be…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillian Whyte<\/a> has been up close and personal with Moses Itauma<\/a> in the ring, but not for long.<\/p>\n

Whyte is a heavyweight veteran who has proven his toughness over 35 fights, winning 31 and knocking out 21 of the men he has faced.<\/p>\n

However, last time out he came up against the fast-rising 20-year-old Itauma<\/a>, who extended this record to 13 wins from 13 when he stopped Whyte inside the first two minutes of their fight. It was his 11th KO win and 9th stoppage inside the first two rounds.<\/p>\n

Over two months on from that bout, Whyte has now shared his verdict, as speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>, \u2018The Bodysnatcher\u2019 was humble about his loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was what it was. There were a couple of things that went wrong but it is what it is. This is heavyweight boxing man and I got caught and that\u2019s it. It\u2019s heavyweight boxing. Nothing to take away from Moses, a good fighter, young prospect, how much younger is he than me? Sh*t happens. \u201c<\/p>\n

He was then asked about Itauma\u2019s power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight didn\u2019t go long enough for me to know. He wasn\u2019t as fast as what I thought he was. But once he caught me he didn\u2019t let me off, he just threw and threw. I got up and was OK to carry on but the referee called it so what can I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whyte is strongly expected to be the 50th and final opponent of Derek Chisora<\/a> before he bows out of the sport. They have fought twice before, with Whyte winning both \u2013 once on points, and one by KO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte has been up close and personal with Moses Itauma in the ring, but not for long.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229798","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\/229798","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=229798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}