{"id":63638,"date":"2025-08-13T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:14:12","slug":"moses-itaumas-cult-like-following-in-the-uk-why-fans-dont-expect-more-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63638\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma&#8217;s Cult-Like Following In The UK: Why Fans Don&#8217;t Expect More Of Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma says fans criticize his opponents to \u201cmake me look worse than I am.\u201d Itauma (12-0, 10 KOs) wants fans to glorify him and view him as the golden fighter based on wins over flimsy opponents without calling him on it.<\/p>\n<p>Why Itauma\u2019s Career Is Manufactured<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, August 16th, Itauma is facing the faded 37-year-old veteran Dillian Whyte on <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"DAZN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\/go\/dazn-3\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">DAZN PPV<\/a> in Riyadh. Moses is an easy target for criticism from the highly intelligent fans who have higher standards for PPV entertainment and the fake hype surrounding Itauma\u2019s manufactured career. They have taken notice of the low quality of Itauma\u2019s opponents thus far, and view him as counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t like the movement that I do. So, they put a bit of doubt and a bit of pressure on it. And if they can\u2019t do it on me, they do it to my opponents. They kind of like bring my opponents down to make me look worse than I am. My job is not to let them get into my head,\u201d said Moses Itauma to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WIbbAGTyEl4&amp;t=249s&amp;ab_channel=BoxingKingMedia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing King Media<\/a> about his movement being criticized as well as the lackluster opposition he\u2019s faced as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma\u2019s Glass Chin Concerns<\/p>\n<p>Fans have noticed that Itauma uses the same kind of movement that fighters with glass chins employ. You can see a lot of Devin Haney in Moses Itauma with the constant retreating that he does when his opponents show any sign of wanting to hit him. A fighter doesn\u2019t do that unless they\u2019re harboring glass in their chins. If Itauma has faith in his ability to take a punch, he wouldn\u2019t run around the ring. He does this in every fight, and it\u2019s obvious that he lacks faith in his ability to take a hard hit.<\/p>\n<p>People criticize Itauma\u2019s poor opposition because they are so utterly awful that one can\u2019t help but mention them. For a fighter that is being hyped as much as Moses Itauma is being hyped by fans and the media in the UK, it\u2019s alarming how poorly he\u2019s been matched by his promoters at Queensberry.<\/p>\n<p>Itauma\u2019s Cult Following in UK<\/p>\n<p>Itauma has quickly developed a cult-like following in England, and they don\u2019t have higher standards for him. They\u2019re seemingly fine with Itauma knocking over substandard opposition without expecting more of him. It\u2019s enlightening to see how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get so annoyed at these questions because your boxing ability shouldn\u2019t be judged on whether you can take a punch,\u201d said Itauma. \u201cMoses Itauma knocks out old veteran in devastating fashion,\u201d said Moses when asked what the headline will be on Sunday after he fights Whyte on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpoiled Rotten\u201d from Soft Matchmaking<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from these comments by Itauma, he lacks patience, is easily annoyed, and seems to be spoiled rotten from the soft matchmaking that\u2019s been done on his behalf by his promoters. Itauma appears to struggle to control his anger at being asked simple questions that can be easily answered if he were willing to be open and direct. Instead, Moses repeatedly deflects, choosing to parrot the same line in every interview: \u201cThe aim of boxing is to hit and not get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He refuses to admit what everyone can see. He\u2019s been matched exclusively against Ham and Eggers since he turned pro in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755076452_951_hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingnews24.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Moses Itauma\u2019s Cult-Like Following in the UK: Why Fans Don\u2019t Expect More of Him<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated on 08\/12\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma says fans criticize his opponents to \u201cmake me look worse than I am.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-63638","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\/63638","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=63638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}