{"id":677002,"date":"2026-07-06T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677002\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:53:09","slug":"heavyweight-ko-artist-who-eddie-hearn-backs-to-be-future-champion-announces-first-headline-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677002\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight KO artist who Eddie Hearn backs to be future champion announces first headline fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Hearn looks to pioneer a new era of heavyweight boxing, believing he has a \u201chuge star\u201d on his books who has everything it takes to become world champion.<\/p>\n

Oleksander Usyk vacated his three titles last week, signalling the end of an era in boxing\u2019s top division. Now, a new generation of heavyweights is beginning to emerge.<\/p>\n

Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Hearn, having promoted golden boy Anthony Joshua since 2013, believes he has a new star on his hands in Teremoana Teremoana.<\/p>\n

Teremoana, aged 28 and standing at 6 ft 6 in tall, is praised for his incredible punching power, boasting an undefeated record of 11 wins with 11 knockouts. In his last outing, he stopped Bowie Tupou in the first round<\/a>, and he is now set to fight DeAndre Savage on August 12 at The Star Casino Gold Coast, Australia, in his first headline bout.<\/p>\n

Savage \u2013 who also boasts 11 wins by knockout<\/a> \u2013 offers a test for the Aussie heavyweight, his only loss coming against Brandon Moore on points in September 2025.<\/p>\n

Following the first-round stoppage of Tupou back in April, Hearn made it clear just how far he thinks his charge can go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019re watching right now is a future world heavyweight champion. This is going to be a huge star. He\u2019s not just got the personality, he\u2019s not just got the dance moves, he can really fight and he\u2019s got power in both hands. A giant of a man.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Teremoana can defeat Savage in impressive fashion, he will continue to build his case as one of the future dominant forces in the division alongside the likes of Moses Itauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn looks to pioneer a new era of heavyweight boxing, believing he has a \u201chuge star\u201d on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677002","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\/677002","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=677002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}