{"id":98845,"date":"2025-08-28T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98845\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:01:07","slug":"amir-khan-delivers-honest-verdict-on-anthony-joshua-vs-moses-itauma-hes-been-there-and-done-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98845\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan Delivers Honest Verdict On Anthony Joshua vs Moses Itauma: “He’s Been There And Done It”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amir Khan<\/a> has given personal insight into what it might be like for former champion Anthony Joshua to take on young challenger Moses Itauma.<\/p>\n

Itauma is the man on everyone\u2019s lips right now. The 20-year-old heavyweight has knocked out 11 of his 13 opponents so far. Most impressively, he stopped Dillian White inside two minutes last time out and is now being linked with fights with current undoubted ruler Oleksandr Usyk, and former two-time unified champion Joshua<\/a>, despite the gap in age and experience.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Pro Boxing Fans<\/a>, Khan explained how hard it is for a former champion to re-find the energy and urgency of their earlier years.<\/p>\n

\u201cExperience, Joshua has. Itauma has that hunger and sometimes when a fighter has that hunger and he\u2019s willing to go in there and die in that ring, that\u2019s what mentality Itauma has got. He\u2019ll walk through anyone and anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re young, he\u2019s not really tasted that money yet. He\u2019s not really had them titles yet. He wants that. When someone wants something, they\u2019re going to walk through walls. Joshua has been there and done it and achieved it all and won it all and got enough money in the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khan then admitted he can see why people believe Itauma beats Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t blame Itauma having more. I don\u2019t blame Gareth [A Davies] saying Joshua will probably get beat. We all have our sell by date. It\u2019s happened to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might be better than fighters but when you\u2019ve made enough money and got everything you want to and you\u2019ve not got that fire in your belly you just let it be. You go in there and it\u2019s like an exhibition. That\u2019s why boxing\u2019s hard, you don\u2019t know when to call it a day. Let\u2019s hope it doesn\u2019t come to that and \u2018AJ\u2019 can\u2019t call it a day and takes that fight and gets beaten by a younger fighter. That\u2019s what always happens, a young lion comes in and takes the crown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua has not fought since September last year when he was stopped inside five rounds by Daniel Dubois<\/a>. Another loss to a second young hopeful would surely signal the end for the popular Brit.<\/p>\n

The fight, as things stand, will not be discussed, as both men are currently working with trainer Ben Davison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amir Khan has given personal insight into what it might be like for former champion Anthony Joshua to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-98845","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\/98845","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=98845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}