Moses Itauma

[ykdadamaja]

I think the UK is pushing these young lads too quickly. Sure, you want to create the next Lennox or AJ, but let this young man mature. Let him go to the Olympics, win a few world amateur titles.... There is still much for him to learn and do before he becomes a man.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Rather than going for a knockout in a match, rather than "trying" to break Tyson's record, they should just fight naturally and see what happens. When you look for the knockout or whatever, you get knocked out yourself.

[TIC]

debut tomorrow. weighted in at two forty eight

[Master]

Heard him on the radio and sounds focused on becoming the youngest heavyweight champion.

[TonnnnUK]

Heard him on the radio and sounds focused on becoming the youngest heavyweight champion.

He'll need to get a move on. Tyson was 27-0 when he fought Berbick for the title, 20 months after his debut. He was fighting once or twice a month (3 times in November 85). That's a rapid pace. He wasn't on a televised event until 1986 around 9/10 months after his debut.

Times have changed of course and you don't need to have fought that many times to attain a ranking and get a title shot, but even so, at todays boxer outing pace, even novice prospects these days barely get out 4/5 times a year. Itauma is getting TV coverage from day 1 and a lot of hype of course, so will be moved quickly.

If we take the Anthony Joshua blueprint, he has 8 fights in his first 12 months, then won his IBF title in his 16th fight which took 2 years 6 months, at a time when the division was fragmented and somehow Charles Martin was champion. Things fell into place nicely there.

MAYBE, things could align here for Moses also. In 2/3 years, Fury, Joshua, Joyce and Usyk will likely be retired and the next wave will be there to beat. Who are those guys gonna be?
Dubois, Hrgovic, Yoka, Anderson, Bakole, Sanchez?

[X]

I wonder if he supposes his toeses are all roses …..

[TIC]

wbo number one all without having one meaningful fight