\u201cMoses is very talented but also very young and raw. Whatever Moses is at 21, in five years\u2019 time, 10 years\u2019 time, he\u2019ll be 10 times better, 10 times stronger, more experienced. He\u2019s an amazing boxer, talented.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut here\u2019s the thing: he was in there against a battle-hardened veteran in Hrgovic who\u2019s been in the game 20 years, who\u2019s fought a hundred fights as an amateur and all styles around the world. And as we saw for the first six, seven rounds, Moses outclassed him. But when it came to the stretch, the championship distance, the young man wasn\u2019t ready to go down the straight with a veteran who trained hard, looked in fantastic shape, dedicated himself, and is in the prime of his life at 34.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnocking out a low-level man is different to knocking out a world-class man. Different power, different toughness, different everything. I said to everybody who would listen, this is too soon. This guy needs another four, five fights. What\u2019s the rush? He\u2019s 21.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Itauma knocked himself out\u2019<\/p>\n
Fury accepts that \u201cwhen you are trying to build somebody into a superstar and beat records, they put them in early, they made a mistake and it\u2019s cost them\u201d.<\/p>\n
He adds: \u201cNot only has it cost Moses the hundred-million-dollar career as a superstar athlete \u2013 like LeBron James and all those people \u2013 when you\u2019ve been banjoed like that it\u2019s difficult to turn that around mentally. It\u2019s about getting the balance right, getting with somebody who\u2019s not that dangerous, who\u2019s durable, who can take punishment and give him the rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not rocket science. If you go from not going past four rounds to jumping into a 12-round world-title fight without winning anything along the way… if you look at my career, I won English, Irish, British, Commonwealth, European, every international belt there was along the way and every world-title belt, too: Lineal, Ring Magazine, everything you can think of… I did it the traditional route.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s done like that for a reason because when you finally get to that point when I was 27 \u2013 and I was 24-0 when I fought Wladimir Klitschko, even though I was a 10-1 underdog \u2013 I was ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMoses is very talented but also very young and raw. Whatever Moses is at 21, in five years\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,59647,2560,217,101,5438,58919,6901,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-759326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury","tag-boxing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-top-story","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759326","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=759326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}