{"id":247726,"date":"2025-11-06T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:30:06","slug":"moses-itauma-names-the-heavyweight-who-could-really-test-him-and-its-not-oleksandr-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247726\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma Names The Heavyweight Who Could Really Test Him And It’s Not Oleksandr Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> is just 20-years-old but already has huge confidence in his own abilities at heavyweight.<\/p>\n

And for good reason, as Itauma has won all 13 of his contests to date, including 11 by way of knockout and nine inside the first two rounds. Last time out was his best win yet when he stopped former world title challenger Dillian Whyte inside two minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n

He declared himself ready for Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> in the ring afterwards, and Usyk is open to it,<\/a> though his team has instead decided to build him more slowly.<\/p>\n

Itauma was lined up to fight WBA Regular champion Kubrat Pulev until the Bulgarian decided instead to take on Murat Gassiev, with the Brit now expected to return to action in February.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports Boxing<\/a>, Itauma was presented with a list of potential heavyweight opponents and asked to comment only when he heard a name who could challenge him.<\/p>\n

He stayed silent for Johnny Fisher, David Adeleye, Fabio Wardley, Frazer Clarke, Hughie Fury, Solomon Dacres and Joe Joyce, but when Derek Chisora<\/a> was mentioned, he broke his silence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHim. I feel like he\u2019s obviously got something about him, They call him War Chisora man, no one\u2019s ever going to have an easy time against him so I can\u2019t stay silent for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chisora is now 41-years-old and a real veteran of the division who has had 49 fights and won 36. He always said he would bow out after 50 contests and was recently linked with Dillian Whyte for a trilogy fight, but that fell through, so a bout against Itauma could be a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is just 20-years-old but already has huge confidence in his own abilities at heavyweight. And for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-247726","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\/247726","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=247726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}