{"id":42492,"date":"2025-08-04T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42492\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:54:07","slug":"heavyweight-who-sparred-moses-itauma-and-dillian-whyte-says-fight-ends-in-early-ko-he-stops-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42492\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight Who Sparred Moses Itauma And Dillian Whyte Says Fight Ends In Early KO: “He Stops Him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Moses Itauma<\/a> vs. Dillian Whyte<\/a> showdown is less than two weeks away.<\/p>\n

The two British heavyweights will collide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday 16 August,<\/a> with the winner moving one step closer towards a possible shot at world honours.<\/p>\n

Itauma has quickly established himself as the most exciting prospect in the heavyweight division, compiling an undefeated record of 12-0, 10 of those wins coming by knockout, having stopped the likes of Demsey McKean and Mariusz Wach in quick fashion.<\/p>\n

Last time out, Itauma claimed another rapid-fire win, claiming a second round TKO win over Mike Balogun in May, setting up the battle with Whyte for the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n

At 37-years-old, Whyte is nearly double the age of Itauma, and heads into this month\u2019s fight with a lot more experience than his rival. He previously challenged for the WBC heavyweight title in April 2022, but suffered a stoppage defeat to Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

Whyte does hold wins over fighters such as Joseph Parker, Alexander Povetkin and Derek Chisora in his career, but is viewed as the underdog in the upcoming match-up against Itauma.<\/p>\n

One man who has previously sparred both men is former cruiserweight and bridgerweight world champion Lawrence Okolie<\/a>, who is now campaigning at heavyweight himself.<\/p>\n

Having felt what it feels like to stand opposite both fighters in the ring, Okolie told The Stomping Ground<\/a> who he is expecting to win in style this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoses is on a great run, a good trajectory, so when they do fight, I think Moses will KO him in quick fashion, so yeah, good luck to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okolie isn\u2019t the only big name to offer their take on the fight, with Tyson Fury also making his prediction.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Moses Itauma vs. Dillian Whyte showdown is less than two weeks away. The two British heavyweights will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42492","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\/42492","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=42492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}