{"id":511161,"date":"2026-04-03T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:01:08","slug":"tim-bradley-sees-only-one-winner-in-moses-itauma-vs-oleksandr-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511161\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley sees only one winner in Moses Itauma vs Oleksandr Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-division world champion Tim Bradley has shared his opinion on how a fight between <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/moses-itauma-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Itauma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> would play out.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma extended his ongoing knockout streak to 10 consecutive bouts when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c070zm1plzvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he dismantled Jermaine Franklin Jr in Manchester<\/a>, once again capturing the attention of global boxing fans with another highlight finish.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/moses-itauma-on-facing-usyk-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growing interest in a showdown between exuberance and experience,<\/a> with many believing that Itauma could be the only man capable of handing 39-year-old Usyk a first career defeat.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hall of Fame inductee Bradley told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ntr3dkvbXc?si=EbuWf5Atra1mcXQV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his YouTube channel<\/a> that he does not think the fight will happen and that he does not believe that the 21-year-old is ready for that kind of challenge, having never fought beyond the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that Usyk is going to fight his a** right now. If Usyk is dancing with a damn kickboxer then you already know that he ain\u2019t fighting this damn Itauma dude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that Itauma can beat him, because he doesn\u2019t have the experience yet, he don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that I worry about with him is the long haul, when you don\u2019t knock a motherf***er out and he don\u2019t fall or react like you are used to seeing \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to know how you are at [round] 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 \u2013 can you keep going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although, Bradley remained impressed by the skill of the Kent-based prodigy, believing that he will continue to dominate against anybody other than the ageing heavyweight king.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as you don\u2019t give him no Usyk, he [Itauma] should be alright. Don\u2019t give him no Usyk, he ain\u2019t ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsyk will take him into deep waters and drown his a**, that is what I see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Itauma will return to action in July, as he prepares for a challenge for the heavyweight throne in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-division world champion Tim Bradley has shared his opinion on how a fight between Moses Itauma and Oleksandr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511161","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\/511161","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=511161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}