{"id":351326,"date":"2026-01-04T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:59:18","slug":"lennox-lewis-didnt-hesitate-when-asked-if-moses-itauma-can-compete-with-usyk-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351326\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis Didn’t Hesitate When Asked If Moses Itauma Can Compete With Usyk Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lennox Lewis<\/a> has given his expert view on how Moses Itauma<\/a> might fare if he were to take on Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> any time soon.<\/p>\n

Itauma is just 20 years old but has plenty of momentum behind him already. Across his 13 professional bouts so far, he remains undefeated, with 11 knockouts and, even more impressively, nine inside the first two rounds.<\/p>\n

He ended 2025 with a fine display against Dillian Whyte which saw him have the former world title challenger down early before ending the fight inside the opening two minutes.<\/p>\n

Later in January, he takes on tough American Jermaine Franklin in Manchester<\/a>, and a fight with Murat Gassiev could be on the horizon after that.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, former undisputed heavyweight ruler Lewis has been speaking to Sky Sports Boxing<\/a> and assessed how Itauma might fare against the great Usyk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWay too soon. It\u2019s better to wait. Wait until he retires. He\u2019s not going to stay around too long. I\u2019m talking Oleksandr Usyk, and then take your shot. There\u2019s no use doing it right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now you\u2019re learning \u2013\u2013 you\u2019re learning everything and you have to wait until the right time. You can never be rushed. If you rush you\u2019re going to do a bad result for your career. So it\u2019s better to take your time and take it when it\u2019s there, when it\u2019s ready, when you\u2019re ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk has not fought since August when he defeated Daniel Dubois to become the two-time undisputed champion, and has said he would like to fight Deontay Wilder in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis has given his expert view on how Moses Itauma might fare if he were to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-351326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351326","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=351326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}