{"id":499568,"date":"2026-03-28T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499568\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:00:12","slug":"tyson-fury-answers-whether-he-will-face-moses-itauma-after-usyk-rules-out-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499568\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury answers whether he will face Moses Itauma after Usyk rules out fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/moses-itauma-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Itauma<\/a> is one of the hottest prospects in boxing and may soon fight for the heavyweight world title, despite being just 21 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Now, two-time heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has addressed whether the youngster is on his radar, following <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/moses-itauma-responds-to-usyk-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s claim that he wouldn\u2019t fight Itauma because he would \u201cbreak\u201d him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma has knocked out his last nine opponents within two rounds, remaining relatively untested in the 13 professional bouts since his 2023 debut.<\/p>\n<p>At the weekend, Michigan\u2019s Jermaine Franklin will be the next to attempt to provide some resistance to the Itauma hype train, but it is showing no signs of stopping.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Kent-based phenomenon overcome Franklin, there is every chance that his next outing could be for the full WBA heavyweight crown, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13524010\/moses-itauma-vs-jermaine-franklin-murat-gassiev-eyes-potential-fight-but-fears-franklin-could-upset-the-rising-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Murat Gassiev both keen for the fight and expected to be elevated to world champion<\/a> if Usyk is stripped of his title.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, regardless of the rapid rise of Itauma, which has seen him become ranked as the number one contender with both the WBO and WBA, \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@metrosportuk\/video\/7621582483879939350?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Sport<\/a> that a fight with Itauma is of no interest to him, as he has \u2018won nothing yet\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ain\u2019t on my radar. He ain\u2019t won nothing yet, has he? He\u2019s got his own career to think about. He is 21, he is nowhere near, is he? I will be a great grandfather by the time that he is up there. By the time that he is 30, I will be a granddad, guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A WBA world title win may change Fury\u2019s mind, but instead it seems as though the victor of <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-fight-if-no-joshua-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wardley-Dubois would be a more likely world title route for the 37-year-old<\/a>, if able to trump Arslanbek Makhmudov next month.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is one of the hottest prospects in boxing and may soon fight for the heavyweight world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-499568","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\/499568","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=499568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}