{"id":339145,"date":"2025-12-28T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339145\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:26:12","slug":"george-groves-sees-only-one-winner-in-anthony-joshua-vs-moses-itauma-he-stops-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339145\/","title":{"rendered":"George Groves sees only one winner in Anthony Joshua vs Moses Itauma: &#8220;He stops him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promoter Frank Warren has suggested Anthony Joshua take on Moses Itauma next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/paul-on-if-fights-again-after-joshua-ko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018AJ\u2019 is coming off a sixth-round stoppage victory over Jake Paul, a high profile win that saw him complete a training camp with his new team, but by no means a challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2026 should be much more intriguing from a fan perspective, with a long-awaited clash against Tyson Fury being lined up for September. Both men will likely fight in the first half of the year to prepare, and talk now turns to who they will face.<\/p>\n<p>Though Itauma is now technically an option because he and Joshua no longer share the same trainer in Ben Davison, the two-time unified champion is unlikely to risk his plans against such a young, dangerous operator.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s certainly what George Groves believes would be happening. The former super middleweight world champion told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betvictor.com\/en-gb\/casino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bet Victor Casino<\/a> he sees an Itauma win inside the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t at all buy into Joshua coming back and winning the world title one day, like a proper world title, and neither do I think Fury can do either, unless the division\u2019s just finished. Usyk\u2019s the man, and then there\u2019s a few coming through like Moses Itauma. If you put Moses Itauma in with Joshua, I think Moses stops him, that\u2019s where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Groves instead believes that Joshua should move straight into facing Fury, advising both men to skip their tune-ups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFury probably now wants a warm-up fight because Joshua technically had one against Paul, and because of the timing, Joshua will have one as well. But I think it loses momentum for the fight. Because who can they fight?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to set up this fight with stellar performances, they should get it on now. Fight in the summer, again in December next year, and then if it\u2019s 1-1, they can have a third one. I wouldn\u2019t be chasing a warm-up fight. No one\u2019s gonna have the same excitement. Can we just get stuck in with his fight?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queensberry.co.uk\/pages\/moses-itauma-vs-jermaine-franklin-jr-magnificent-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Itauma takes on former Joshua foe Jermaine Franklin on January 21<\/a>. As he builds towards a world title shot, it may be unlikely that he will cross paths with any of the heavyweight division\u2019s old guard before they retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Frank Warren has suggested Anthony Joshua take on Moses Itauma next. \u2018AJ\u2019 is coming off a sixth-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339145","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\/339145","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=339145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}