{"id":487843,"date":"2026-03-21T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487843\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:31:08","slug":"moses-itauma-admits-there-is-one-heavyweight-he-would-prefer-not-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487843\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma admits there is one heavyweight he would prefer not to face"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> has admitted there is one fellow heavyweight star he would prefer not to cross paths with.<\/p>\n

Unbeaten prospect Itauma returns to action later this month when he takes on Jermaine Franklin at Co-Op Live in Manchester.<\/a><\/p>\n

Itauma has won all 13 of his fights to date, 11 of them coming by knockout, and the 21-year-old has been tipped by many to reach the top of the sport.<\/p>\n

It seems Itauma hopes to achieve that goal without having to face one man in particular though, after he was asked on The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a> about taking on the winner of the upcoming fight between his stablemate Fabio Wardley<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I win will I fight the winner? If Frank Warren allows it as we\u2019re all Queensberry boys. He has to open the gate for us to be able to. If Fabio wins, we\u2019re at the same gym so it might be a bit awkward. If Dubois wins it will probably be more likely to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itauma then explained why doesn\u2019t see Wardley as a potential opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of us would have to leave the gym. It\u2019s never been a conversation [about fighting each other]. I\u2019ve got Jermaine Franklin, he\u2019s got Daniel Dubois, I\u2019ve never really thought of Wardley as my opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he knocked out Justis Huni everybody saw how excited and how happy I was for him. I\u2019ve never really seen him as an opponent. We\u2019ve never sparred. Ben [Davison] likes to keep the gym as a team environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, Itauma remains fully focused on his clash against Franklin on March 28, while Wardley prepares to defend his WBO heavyweight title against Dubois on May 9.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma has admitted there is one fellow heavyweight star he would prefer not to cross paths with.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487843","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\/487843","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=487843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}