{"id":349802,"date":"2026-01-03T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:59:07","slug":"moses-itauma-explains-why-he-turned-down-eliminator-with-frank-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349802\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma explains why he turned down eliminator with Frank Sanchez\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cWe looked at that fight and we just thought, obviously, it was a title eliminator for the IBF, but then I would lose my rankings in the WBO, WBA and the WBC. Obviously, I&#8217;m highly ranked with all three of them,\u201d <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kLQsXZD9sE4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Itauma said in an interview with iFL TV<\/a>. \u201cSo my team was like, there\u2019s no point of going in that route, dropping all these rankings \u2013 for the WBO, especially, the ones that I&#8217;ve been fighting for for two, two and a half years now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe looked at that fight and we just thought, obviously, it was a title eliminator for the IBF,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,19527,37607,16171,4036,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-349802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-frank-sanchez","10":"tag-jermaine-franklin","11":"tag-moses-itauma","12":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349802","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=349802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}