{"id":89508,"date":"2025-08-24T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:44:05","slug":"dave-allen-predicts-moses-itauma-vs-tyson-fury-fight-i-make-him-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89508\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen Predicts Moses Itauma vs Tyson Fury Fight: “I Make Him Favourite”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> is being linked with everyone, including Tyson Fury<\/a>, and now Dave Allen<\/a> has weighed in on the debate.<\/p>\n

Itauma is a breakout star of the heavyweight boxing scene. The 20-year-old sensation has won all 13 of his fights, 11 of them by KO, and the last nine before the end of the second round. He has names like Mariusz Wach and Demsey McKean on his record, and last time out in August, he stepped up in impressive fashion when he beat former world title challenger Dillian Whyte with relative ease.<\/a><\/p>\n

That victory has accelerated his progression to the point that people are now talking about throwing him in with the very best of the best, despite him still being relatively inexperienced.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his own YouTube channel<\/a>, fellow heavyweight Allen backed Itauma to beat everyone aside from one man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I would make him favourite to beat everyone bar Usyk now, to be honest. I think Wilder, Joshua, Fury, the top ones from a few years ago, they\u2019re not what they was.<\/p>\n

\u201cParker, Kabayal, Jalolov, they\u2019re gonna give him a fight as well. But yeah I\u2019m all in on his ability, I don\u2019t doubt it at all. Offensively, he\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not Mike Tyson-esque cause he\u2019s nothing like Mike Tyson, I don\u2019t see the similarities apart from they\u2019re young heavyweights. Ituama\u2019s a lump, he\u2019s about 6ft 4, 18 stone, he\u2019s a bit of a freak really, that big but athletic. I think he\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this stage, it makes more sense not to rush Itauma, and a more sensible option than Usyk or Fury seems to be towing Croatian Filip Hrgovic,<\/a> who beat David Adeleye last time out and has previously fought the likes of Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is being linked with everyone, including Tyson Fury, and now Dave Allen has weighed in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-89508","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\/89508","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=89508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}