{"id":544731,"date":"2026-04-22T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:06:08","slug":"tony-bellew-names-the-only-heavyweight-left-who-can-cause-usyk-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544731\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew names the only heavyweight left who can cause Usyk problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Bellew<\/a> has revealed the only man that he thinks could be a threat to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Usyk defeated Bellew at cruiserweight back in 2018, and then moved up to the heavyweight division where he has defeated all comers, including Tyson Fury<\/a>, Anthony Joshua<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a> all on two occasions each.<\/p>\n

With the Ukrainian approaching the end of his career, Bellew has told Ready To Fight<\/a> that he believes rising sensation Moses Itauma is the one fighter capable of causing problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to see time beat Usyk. Before his first fight with Joshua, I thought only size could stop him.<\/p>\n

But when I saw him, I realised \u2014 even size can\u2019t beat him. I predicted he\u2019d beat Fury twice \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly what happened. He\u2019s on another level.<\/p>\n

The only opponent who could give him problems is Moses Itauma, but he\u2019s not ready yet. You can\u2019t throw him in against Usyk if he hasn\u2019t even gone six rounds. That would be unfair.<\/p>\n

His promoter, Frank Warren, always knows how to time things right \u2014 guiding his fighters carefully from the bottom to the top.<\/p>\n

Usyk also knows how to pick the right fights at the right time. I agree \u2014 you can\u2019t put a newcomer in with Usyk yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itauma is unbeaten in his career, most recently claiming a fifth round knockout win over Jermaine Franklin in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The youngster is set to return to action in July, where a victory could move him one step closer to a shot at world honours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew has revealed the only man that he thinks could be a threat to Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544731","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\/544731","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=544731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}