Fans will be hard pushed to find an analyst or fighter who is predicting this one to go the distance.<\/a> Itauma, who trains alongside Wardley at the Ben Davison Performance Centre, said the champion was capable of \u2018smashing Dubois out\u2019 and picked him to retain his title.<\/p>\n\u201cI think Fabio can do it. Fabio keeps surprising everyone anyway so if you write off Fabio he\u2019ll end up smashing Dubois out anyway so it doesn\u2019t really matter what you think. You don\u2019t really know what to expect from Fabio. I\u2019d probably say Fabio wins, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for fighting the winner, things would be simpler of course if Itauma\u2019s stablemate did not win, meaning he could set his sights on Dubois for the world title. However, despite being guided by the same trainer, Wardley still does not entirely rule out making the Wardley fight happen in some way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Daniel Dubois wins then that makes sense. Fabio Wardley\u2019s obviously in the same gym as me so that would be a sticky predicament \u2026 Everything can make sense. It all makes sense, but as of right now I\u2019ve got Jermaine Franklin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six weeks before the world title clash, Itauma takes the next step in his campaign when he faces durable American Jermaine Franklin.<\/a> Should he win, he will no doubt be ringside at the Co-op Live in Manchester for Wardley-Dubois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is the latest to weigh in on the fantastic all-British heavyweight world title fight between champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434055","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\/434055","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=434055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}