{"id":506286,"date":"2026-04-01T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:02:18","slug":"heavyweight-champion-ready-to-fight-moses-itauma-next-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506286\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight champion &#8216;ready&#8217; to fight Moses Itauma next: &#8220;Anywhere&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/moses-itauma-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Itauma<\/a> could be set to challenge for a world title in his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma proved yet again on Saturday why he is one of the most exciting stars in boxing after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c070zm1plzvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he recorded a destructive fifth round knockout win over Jermaine Franklin<\/a> at Co-Op Live in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin had never been stopped before heading into the bout, including in fights with Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, but a vicious uppercut followed by a right hook sent the American face first onto the canvas and gave Itauma a dominant victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has already begun over who the 21-year-old could face in his next outing, with some fans suggesting he already has the skills to test himself against unified world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is a battle against WBA Regular heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev that may be next, after Gassiev\u2019s promoter Al Siesta <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/al_siesta\/status\/2038041367054590334?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted on social media<\/a> confirming they are ready for the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazing performance by Moses. Remember we are READY to host Itauma against our WBA Champion Murat Gassiev NEXT. London, Moscow, Dubai, ANYWHERE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gassiev became WBA Regular champion thanks to a stoppage win over Kubrat Pulev in December, and as Itauma is currently ranked as the number one contender with the WBA, a clash against Gassiev has been touted for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma is also number one with the WBO, so he could also have one eye on the WBO heavyweight title fight between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/itauma-on-one-man-hes-not-keen-to-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">though the youngster recently explained why he may not want to face the possible winner of that bout.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma could be set to challenge for a world title in his next fight. Itauma proved yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506286","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\/506286","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=506286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}