Tyson Fury refuses fight with Moses Itauma

Tyson Fury, amended known arsenic the "Gipsy King", has made it wide that determination is 1 heavyweight that fans volition ne'er spot him look successful a nonrecreational ring. Although the British boxer retired successful January aft 2 consecutive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk — the archetypal successful May of past year, erstwhile helium mislaid the lucifer for the implicit champion, and the 2nd successful a rematch successful which the Ukrainian confirmed his dominance and retained each the belts — Fury has precocious been progressively vocal astir a imaginable trilogy with Usyk adjacent year.

However, galore fans inactive anticipation that the long-awaited clash with Anthony Joshua volition instrumentality place, a lucifer that galore judge would person large humanities value for British boxing. However, successful a abbreviated video for Queensberry Promotions, Fury intelligibly rejected the thought of ​​fighting with young heavyweight Moses Itauma.

"No, decidedly not, bash you deliberation I'm stupid?" — Fury said shortly, without mincing words.

Moses Itauma

Moses Itauma is simply a 19-year-old boxer who has been considered 1 of the top talents of the caller procreation for years. As a 15-year-old, helium has sparred with apical boxers specified arsenic Lawrence Okolie. In the nonrecreational ring, helium has already shared the signifier with some Fury and Usyk, some of whom person publically praised him, predicting that helium volition triumph a satellite rubric successful the future.

This weekend, the young antheral faces the toughest trial of his vocation — a combat against erstwhile rubric challenger, the ever-dangerous Dillian Whyte. A triumph implicit Whyte could catapult Itauma to a caller level and bring him person to his archetypal accidental astatine a satellite belt.

So far, Itauma has fought 12 nonrecreational fights, 10 of which ended successful knockouts. His explosive powerfulness and instinct for finishing fights bid respect among heavyweights.

On the different hand, Whyte, with 34 knockouts successful 37 appearances, is entering the last agelong of his career. Many judge that the young Itauma could prehend the opportunity, adhd different large sanction to his roster, and solidify his presumption arsenic a aboriginal menace to the apical of the heavyweight division.