Itauma stopped Dillian Whyte inside two minutes last weekend and Fury was quick to deliver his verdict on the 20-year-old heavyweight sensation
Tyson Fury has backed Moses Itauma to “wreck” Oleksandr Usyk if the heavyweights colide.
Itauma made short work of Dillian Whyte on Saturday night, dropping and stopping the veteran inside two minutes. It was the Brit’s biggest win of his career and took his professional record to 13-0 with 11 knockouts. He looks destined to fight for a world title and has been touted as the final opponent of undisputed champion Usyk’s career.
And Fury is confident the 20-year-old would be the first to defeat the Ukrainian. “I keep getting asked about young Moses Itauma fighting Oleksandr Usyk and all the other big names,” he said in a video posted to social media. “My opinion is not someone who doesn’t know boxing. My opinion is someone who has been there and won every single belt, won everything there is to win in boxing and done very well.
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“Boxing is a young man’s game, like I told Wladimir Klitschko when he was 37. Boxing is a young man’s game. It waits for nobody. So here is the opinion, and you heard it here first: Moses Itauma will wreck all them all old men out of the division. Usyk, AJ, Miller. Whoever there is that’s old. Zhang, whoever else the f*** there is. Luis Ortiz. All these big names of the past.”
“Even the man who took my belts. Usyk, Moses will wreck him because it’s a young man versus an old man. And an old man can’t mess with a young man.”
Itauma himself was more reluctant to call out Usyk, saying: “I put on a performance for you guys, so it’s now who’s next? I don’t want to call out Usyk because I don’t believe I deserve the opportunity – but guys that do deserve the opportunity, I want to fight those lot. So maybe Agit Kabayel, maybe Joseph Parker. Maybe them type of names.
“I know that my team is stressing me getting rounds, so that’s why they said Jermaine Franklin would be a good name. As of right now, I am going to rest and then maybe be back in the gym.”
Itauma’s promoter Frank Warren, meanwhile, hailed his newest star. “He’s the best young fighter at this age than any fighter I’ve ever been involved with,” he said. “He got in there and he done it, and he done it in style. No one has ever done that to Dillian.
“It’s the best shape I’ve ever seen Dillian in, but it was just a punch perfect performance. Every punch he threw connected and there was just so much variety.”
