{"id":544492,"date":"2026-04-22T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:05:07","slug":"carl-froch-says-only-one-heavyweight-has-what-it-takes-to-beat-moses-itauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544492\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch says only one heavyweight has what it takes to beat Moses Itauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Froch believes Moses Itauma<\/a> would beat all but one of his heavyweight counterparts, despite the precocious talent being just 21-years-old.<\/p>\n

The hard-hitting southpaw comes off a fifth-round stoppage over Jermaine Franklin<\/a>, scoring a third-round knockdown before delivering a grandstand finish last month.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Itauma has firmly placed himself in the world title picture, having secured a mandatory position for Fabio Wardley\u2019s WBO strap.<\/p>\n

At the same time, though, a lack of world-class experience makes it difficult to gauge whether he is ready for such a jump in levels, with Wardley, for instance, representing a significant step-up from Franklin.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the division, bona fide king Oleksandr Usyk is likely to hang around for at least two more fights, granted he beats Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven on May 23.<\/p>\n

But again, Usyk represents unfamiliar territory for Itauma, who most notably defeated a faded Dillian Whyte<\/a> and Demsey McKean prior to facing Franklin.<\/p>\n

Because of this, Hall of Famer Froch has said on his YouTube channel Froch On Fighting<\/a> that he struggles to see how Itauma finds a great deal of success against Usyk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he keeps obliterating his opponents the way he\u2019s doing it, that might be a fight [against Usyk] that happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not going to give my prediction on that. I think Usyk\u2019s got too much experience \u2013 he\u2019d be too good for him \u2013 but you just never know, because Moses Itauma looks that good.\u201d<\/p>\n

While dismissing his chances in a potential fight with Usyk, Froch went on to name a selection of other heavyweights, including Wardley, Daniel Dubois, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, who he suspects would lose to Itauma.<\/p>\n

Like Froch, many others predict that Itauma will reign supreme in years to come, just not while Usyk still holds the WBC, IBF and WBA world titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch believes Moses Itauma would beat all but one of his heavyweight counterparts, despite the precocious talent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544492","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\/544492","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=544492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}