{"id":341212,"date":"2025-12-29T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341212\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:01:09","slug":"dillian-whyte-delivers-honest-verdict-on-moses-itauma-vs-jermaine-franklin-after-facing-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341212\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte delivers honest verdict on Moses Itauma vs Jermaine Franklin after facing both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/moses-itauma-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Itauma<\/a> looks to kick off 2026 with a bang when he attempts to become the first man to stop Jermaine Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>The big-punching Brit fought twice this year, finishing both Mike Balogun and Dillian Whyte in quick fashion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12040\/13468187\/moses-itauma-to-fight-jermaine-franklin-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He clashes with Franklin on January 24 in Manchester<\/a>, and many feel the durable American can be the man to take him some rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z4qx2yQGj3o&amp;t=796s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IFL TV<\/a>, Whyte \u2014 who lasted only two minutes with Itauma \u2014 praised the matchmaking, seemingly backing Itauma to come through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood fight. Very good fight. They\u2019re building Moses very good, I wish I had that sort of management and promotion for my career. They\u2019re building him perfectly \u2013 the right fights at the right time, spending money and promoting him. His learning resume is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Franklin had been chosen to give Itauma the chance to do what he and Anthony Joshua couldn\u2019t do, namely end the fight inside the distance, Whyte said that the narrative \u2018doesn\u2019t make sense.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really think so. I beat Franklin and [Itauma] beat me, so he beat the man that beat the man. It doesn\u2019t make sense. It\u2019s just that they run out of opponents for him and he has to step up to a higher level, because he\u2019s done so well. They have to try and spin this story to make the fight sell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJermaine Franklin lost to both me and AJ \u2026 He should\u2019ve fought someone else to be honest, but it\u2019s a good fight for him \u2026 People want to get paid to fight. I\u2019m sure people will fight him, but when you\u2019re knocking guys out people start pricing themselves out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Franklin has vowed to halt Itauma in his tracks as he marches forward towards a world title. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/moses-itauma-called-out-for-eliminator\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If he fails to do so, the 21-year-old Brit could well find himself challenging for one before the year is out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma looks to kick off 2026 with a bang when he attempts to become the first man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-341212","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\/341212","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=341212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}