{"id":633000,"date":"2026-06-11T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633000\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:02:10","slug":"john-fury-sums-up-moses-itaumas-chances-of-beating-daniel-dubois-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633000\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fury sums up Moses Itauma’s chances of beating Daniel Dubois now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Dubois became a two-time heavyweight world champion last month, and a future fight against rising star Moses Itauma became all the more intriguing. Now, John Fury, father of two-time titlist Tyson, has shared how he thinks the fight would play out.<\/p>\n

Dubois twice picked himself up off the canvas to stop Fabio Wardley last month, capturing the WBO heavyweight world title in the process. Wardley has activated a contractual rematch clause<\/a>, forcing an immediate shot at winning his belt back that is expected to take place this year.<\/p>\n

The winner there could then be ordered to face Itauma, who currently sits as the WBO\u2019s number one contender and mandatory challenger after just 14 pro bouts.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Seconds Out<\/a>, John Fury, whose son has sparred both men, said that a challenge against \u2018dangerous man\u2019 Dubois would, at this stage, be \u2018too soon.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it may be too soon for Itauma, too soon. [He is] a dangerous man, Daniel Dubois, and I give him credit for what he has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst almost guaranteed for a shot at the WBO title in 2027, Itauma also has less arduous options for a title charge, which could take place even sooner.<\/p>\n

The Kent-based phenomenon is currently also rated as the number one contender with the WBA, and a clash against the victor of next month\u2019s fight between regular champion Murat Gassiev and Tony Yoka<\/a> could well be for full world honours if Oleksandr Usyk is stripped of, or vacates, his full title.<\/p>\n

As for Dubois, and though he has welcomed a future fight with Itauma, all of his focus must remain on Wardley, who has shown his ability to win rematches in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois became a two-time heavyweight world champion last month, and a future fight against rising star Moses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-633000","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\/633000","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=633000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}