{"id":245369,"date":"2025-11-05T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245369\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:35:10","slug":"derek-chisora-makes-emphatic-prediction-for-usyk-vs-moses-itauma-hed-blow-the-smoke-out-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245369\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora makes emphatic prediction for Usyk vs Moses Itauma: “He’d blow the smoke out of him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora has given his opinion on how a potential heavyweight showdown between Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and Moses Itauma<\/a> would play out.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, despite having only fought 13 times and boxed just 26 rounds Itauma has been linked to a fight against the current undisputed heavyweight champion<\/a>. The 20-year-old southpaw has blitzed through his opponents so far including former world title challenger Dillian Whyte who lasted less than three minutes against the heavyweight phenom in August.<\/p>\n

Itauma\u2019s blend of speed, skill and power have many believing him to be a generational talent and the man who can dominate the heavyweight division in years to come.<\/p>\n

Chisora, meanwhile, is at the other end of the spectrum and could fight for the 50th and final time next month. The 41-year-old has faced Vitali Klitschko, Tyson Fury and in 2020 fought Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, 24-0 (15 KOs), as the Ukrainian dipped his toes into the division for a second time having won the undisputed cruiserweight crown.<\/p>\n

An inspired Chisora, 36-13 (23 KOs), gave Usyk a hard night\u2019s work and despite losing on points emerged with great credit and helped kick off a long Indian Summer for the Londoner. But how would the great Ukrainian cope with Itauma? Chisora pulled no punches when he gave his opinion to The Ring<\/a> after Itauma\u2019s win over Whyte in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsyk would blow the smoke out of him. Usyk would kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itauma, 13-0 (11 KOs), was expected to return on the same December 13 card as Chisora in Manchester but it now looks likely that the WBA number one contender won\u2019t be back until 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has given his opinion on how a potential heavyweight showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Moses Itauma…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-245369","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\/245369","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=245369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}