Eddie Hearn says that Dillian Whyte has a chance of Puncher against massive favorites Moses Italum this Saturday, August 16, in their headliner on Dazn PPV in Riyadh.
Hearn on an unverified chin
Hearn states that 20-year-old Ituma (12-0, 10 KO) still has “question marks” because it has never been “tested”. It can say it again. Ituma has never been tailored to a living opponent, both depending on professionals and amateurs. He didn’t fight all his life.
So Whyte, though faded like him, is a huge step in the classroom from the opposition, with which Itauma fights.
“I think Moses is a great favorite in battle, but let’s understand. Dillian is a earnest warrior. He is a tough man and can hit,” said Eddie Hearn Stamping groundAnalysis of Moses Ituma vs. Dillian Whyte is fighting for this Saturday.
Of course, Ituma is a favorite. Whyte is antique, inactive and has been taking his career for four years. We saw how he was knocked out by Slaper Tyson Fury in 2022.
Dillian chin has disappeared since he was thrown out by Aleksander Povetkin in 2020. It was the end for Dillian. He can still hit, but his ability to shoot a good shot has disappeared completely. So the only chance that Whyte has in this fight is to combine with one of his enormous left hooks on Itaum at the beginning of the competition on August 16.
“The question mark for Moses and only because we did not see them tested, Moses” China and Moses, “said Hearn. “The only way Dillian can win is to test these things, but he is a good warrior.”
Illegal professional ITAUMA record
In order for the warrior to be adapted as poorly as Ituma at an amateur and professional level, he suggests that he was brought strictly for financial purposes. You can’t protect the warrior as he was if the defect is not hidden. It is suspected that this is a chin. It’s always a chin. I saw it a million times with various warriors. At some point he had to get up, and now he is protected, as if he were a valuable Ming vase. If Ituma was a real thing, he should fight adolescent pretenders such as Lenier Pero, Richard Torrez Jr. and Dainier Pero.
If the idea consisted of developing Itaum, he would remain in amateurs and fight at the world level. He didn’t do it. Ituma fought with smaller amateurs and did not face talented fighters from the USA, Kuba, Russia, Kazakhstan or Ukraine.
“I think it’s a bad style for Dillian, but if he can take Moses into deep water in tardy rounds, I think he has a chance in battle,” said Hearn about Whyte. “He will be a threatening opponent for everyone. I think it’s a great duel in massive weight.”
Ituma does not make it easier to land, but is open to the right hands. Although Moses is high in 6’4 ″, he does not pull his arms far in front of him. It’s like He lacks flexibility Strengthen your hands completely. When he goes to attack, his head is wide open to his right hands. Ituma depends too much on the speed and power of the hand to win. It will be his fall if why it can connect.
ITAUMA readiness to the UTY
“Potentially one or two fightsBut it depends on how you want to bring him, “said Hearn, asked how close it is Ituma to challenge, the undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Uyk.” He is a fantastic adolescent perspective. He is only adolescent and only better. But if you want to throw cubes and believe that he is good enough to beat these guys, why not? “
It would be stupid for Queensberry to put itauma with a talented warrior, such as Uyk. Moses has no experience at an amateur or professional level to give him a chance to defeat Usyk.
What’s more, the style of fighting and Ituma would not work against this type of warrior. You must be able to throw combinations, and Ituma has never shown that he can do it. Everything with him is one blow and getting out. He fights as if he was hiding glass in the chin.
Next month, Ryan Garcia will go toe-to-toe with Conor Benn in the first defence of his WBC welterweight title, and now former pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford has doubled down on his prediction for the clash.
Crawford hung up the gloves whilst recognised as the pound-for-pound number one in December, but that has not stopped ‘Bud’ from developing a heated rivalry with Garcia since his retirement, with the pair making regular jibes at one another in recent months.
Garcia has now revealed his intentions to tempt the undefeated southpaw out of retirement if he retains his title against Benn, but the Omaha-born sensation has declared his belief that Garcia will lose his belt to the Briton, favouring the challenger’s size and power.
Now, as fight week edges closer, Crawford has once again insisted that Benn will pull off the upset, as he told Fight Hub TV that he is picking ‘The Destroyer’ to come out on top.
“It’s going to be a good fight. I got Conor Benn!”
Benn will be competing at welterweight for the first time in nearly five years, looking to wrestle away the belt that Garcia won back in February with a win over Mario Barrios.
The event takes place on Saturday, September 12, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and on the undercard, Jai Opetaia is set to take on current WBC cruiserweight world champion Noel Mikaelian.
It currently remains to be seen whether the Armenian will still be the reigning titleholder when fight night comes around though, due to rumours that Mikaelian will be stripped for avoiding a fight with David Benavidez.
Terence Crawford faced and defeated 42 different opponents during a 17-year career, but super-middleweight icon Carl Froch believes that there is one welterweight who would have put an end to Crawford’s unbeaten streak if they were to meet in their primes.
Crawford became the first post-war boxer to claim the undisputed title in three separate weight divisions last September; a run which began as a super-lightweight in 2015 by defeating Thomas Dulorme, then unifying against Viktor Postol before halting Julius Indongo in an undisputed title showdown.
‘Bud’ then moved on to the welterweight scene and knocked out Jeff Horn to capture the WBO world title on his 147lb debut, making five defences of the title before colliding with fierce rival and three-belt unified titleholder, Errol Spence Jr, in 2023.
In a unforgettable fight, Crawford brutally beat Spence down in an authoritative ninth-round stoppage win to capture the undisputed welterweight throne. Talk then turned to an unprecedented three-weight move up to super-middleweight to take on Canelo Alvarez.
After stopping off at super-welterweight to dethrone Israil Madrimov on his way up, Crawford debuted at super-middleweight in a challenge for Canelo’s undisputed crown and outboxed the Mexican superstar in an iconic win last year, hanging up the gloves three months later.
Despite those legendary achievements, Froch picked Floyd Mayweather Jr to come out on top in a potential fantasy fight against the Omaha southpaw, in an episode of ‘Froch on Fighting’.
Mayweather’s achievements speak for themselves, retiring with a perfect 50-0 unbeaten record after claiming world honours in five divisions, with his most impressive reign coming at 147lbs, where he defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley.
Mayweather has been rumoured to make a comeback, but while there would be huge finances that would be on offer, Crawford has revealed that he would have no interest in ending his retirement for a bout with ‘TBE’, believing that the 49-year-old is ‘old’ and ‘done’.
Terence Crawford has been hailed by many as the best fighter of this generation following his retirement, and now WBC welterweight title hopeful Conor Benn has shared how he thinks ‘Bud’ would have fared against six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya.
Crawford became boxing’s sixth five-division world champion with an iconic win over Canelo Alvarez back in September; joining Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in that elite and exclusive club reserved only for legends of the sport.
Of that group, only De La Hoya and Pacquiao have gone on to conquer a sixth division, with De La Hoya’s 2004 WBO middleweight world title win over Felix Sturm seeing the Californian become the first boxer to ever become a sextuple champion.
Crawford could have joined ‘’The Golden Boy’ and ‘Pac-Man’ in achieving that feat, having been offered a middleweight world title shot during the aftermath of his triumph over Canelo late last year – a proposal which later fell apart due to a failed doping test by Janibek Alimkhanuly.
Continuing the praise that the Omaha-born southpaw has received since announcing his retirement last December, Benn told Daily Mail Boxing that he would favour the undefeated star to get the better of De La Hoya, if they were to meet in their primes.
Benn also went on to predict that Crawford would retain his unbeaten streak against other greats of the game, picking him to come out on top against each of Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker and Roberto Duran.
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