Fabio Wardley and Moses Itauma have faced repeated questions about a potential fight despite being stablemates at the Ben Davison Performance Centre.<\/p>\n
Itauma is fresh off another knockout win, stopping Jermaine Franklin this past weekend in Manchester in highlight-reel fashion.<\/a><\/p>\n Wardley currently holds the WBO belt and has shown he is willing to take on anyone by accepting the hard-hitting Daniel Dubois as his first challenger.<\/p>\n Speaking on the DAZN broadcast post-fight, Wardley was again asked about a potential clash with Itauma.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, we\u2019re in different places. That is an emphatic victory, he deserves all the credit in the world because Franklin is a tough opponent and no one\u2019s done that to him. I know first hand Moses has all the talent in the world.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we are in different places. He\u2019s looking towards where I am currently as world champion. I\u2019m looking at Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua. I\u2019m looking higher than that still. There is a gap of separation where we\u2019re at, and that\u2019s only due to time and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ipswich man then outlined the only scenario in which the fight would become a \u2018serious conversation.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cLook, there\u2019s four belts, there\u2019s two of us. The only time this ever becomes a serious conversation is if I have two and he has two, and we have to look around and go, \u2018what are we gonna do here?\u2019 Are we gonna do a Klitschko where we just hold on to them, do our defences and hold down the gym with all four belts in there?\u201d<\/p>\n Pushed on what his thinking would be should things play out that way, Wardley admitted that the carrot of undisputed dangling would be hard to turn down.<\/p>\n \u201cI would always want to be undisputed \u2026 The title of undisputed is something that I\u2019m sure Moses himself will want to claim at some point and something I want to claim. Like I said, that\u2019s the only time there would be a serious question, but it\u2019s in the distant, distant future right now.\u201d<\/p>\n As it stands, the division offers plenty of match-ups without splitting Ben Davison\u2019s gym and forcing either Wardley or Itauma to seek another trainer. The intrigue from fans, however, only seems to be intensifying, and an expected order from the WBO to install Itauma as mandatory challenger<\/a> \u2013 should Wardley keep his belt against Dubois in May \u2013 makes the situation a little more complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley and Moses Itauma have faced repeated questions about a potential fight despite being stablemates at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-503495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503495","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=503495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}