{"id":53262,"date":"2025-08-08T18:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53262\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:28:06","slug":"fans-shocked-as-dillian-whyte-shows-off-best-ever-physique-ahead-of-moses-itauma-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53262\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Shocked As Dillian Whyte Shows Off &#8216;Best Ever&#8217; Physique Ahead Of Moses Itauma Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/dillian-whyte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillian Whyte<\/a>\u2018s heavyweight showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/moses-itauma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Itauma<\/a> is just over a week away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0mrdv19nzlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The two men will collide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday 16 August<\/a>, in a bout that is being described by many as a crossroads match-up in the banner division.<\/p>\n<p>Whyte is once again looking to get back into world title contention, having suffered a defeat in his maiden crack at world honours against Tyson Fury in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A failed drugs test the following year meant that Whyte has been inactive since then, competing just three times against lesser opposition since that clash with Fury over three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As for Itauma, he is widely-regarded as being the hottest prospect in the entire heavyweight division, with the 20-year-old putting together an unbeaten run of 12-0, with 10 of those wins coming by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>His last three fights has seen him claim stoppage wins over Mike Balogun, Demsey McKean and Mariusz Wach, all of them inside the first two rounds, which has made him a big favourite heading into the fight against Whyte.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Whyte is doing everything in his power to try and prove the oddsmakers wrong though, as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/devsahni\/status\/1953187523544395842?t=lCanlOZ2HmGyIHte7PnnXQ&amp;s=19\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent footage of him in the gym<\/a> appears to show \u2018The Bodysnatcher\u2019 in tremendous shape ahead of the bout.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah Dillian ain\u2019t playing\u2026 he\u2019s in shape \u26a0\ufe0f\ud83d\udc3a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AMCKxJRokp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/AMCKxJRokp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dev Sahni (@devsahni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devsahni\/status\/1953187523544395842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans were seemingly impressed with what they saw from Whyte, with a number of comments praising his physique and speculating that it could spell danger for Itauma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine if he beat Itauma. The boxing world would erupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow!! Best shape I\u2019ve ever seen him, this could be interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuper shape \u2014 best I\u2019ve seen him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With just days left to go until the two men meet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/bellew-on-moses-itauma-vs-dillian-whyte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former cruiserweight world champion Tony Bellew has made his final prediction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillian Whyte\u2018s heavyweight showdown with Moses Itauma is just over a week away. The two men will collide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-53262","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\/53262","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=53262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}