Hamed was one of British boxing’s biggest stars during the 1990s, combining an entertaining fighting style with elaborate ring entrances and a larger-than-life character.<\/p>\n
The Sheffield-born fighter became Britain’s youngest world champion when he beat Steve Robinson for the WBO featherweight title in Cardiff in 1995, aged 21 and 230 days.<\/p>\n
Itauma will miss out on that record by 14 days if he beats Hrgovic.<\/p>\n
Hamed, though, says he is not concerned about records and simply wants to see “special fighter” Itauma fulfil his potential.<\/p>\n
“Winning a national title as an amateur aged 11 and then having in your head all the way through your amateur career that you’ll be world champion at 21 – I visualised that. I think it’s very much the same for Moses,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m so confident that Moses is going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I’m so confident that he’ll defend that belt for as long as he wants.<\/p>\n
Hrgovic is an underdog despite his superior record against better opposition. The 34-year-old is an Olympic bronze medalist and has only lost once – to current WBO world champion Daniel Dubois in 2024 – in 21 fights.<\/p>\n
But Hamed does not expect the fight to prove particularly difficult for Itauma.<\/p>\n
“On paper it’s a test but I don’t think the night that we watch it it will be a test,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I think it’s going to be one of Moses’ easiest nights of his career and he’ll win a world title.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamed was one of British boxing’s biggest stars during the 1990s, combining an entertaining fighting style with elaborate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750538","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\/750538","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=750538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}