Written by Declan Taylor
The name of the heavyweight player, Moses Itauma, has sent his team a list of five players they will fight with in his next fight.
After stopping Mariusz Wach in the second round at the o2 on Saturday night, the Slovakian-born Kent resident is expected to return to the ring in September ahead of the December 21 card in Saudi Arabia which has seen Oleksandr Usyk rematch Tyson Fury.
But, now 10-0 in eight straight, Itauma is becoming more and more difficult to match with a few irons willing to try to slow his rapid progress.
Itauma is still hoping to break Mike Tyson’s record as the youngest world heavyweight champion but will need to do so before the end of May 2025 so now plans to move up the ranks are in order.
And Itauma himself has put together a list of names he thinks would fit the bill for his September trip.
“It depends on my team; my manager, my promoter and my trainer to see what we are coming from,” Itauma told the George Groves Boxing Club podcast.
“But I sent them a list of names actually, I will call the list that I mentioned to my team. I said: Tom Schwarz, Tony Yoka, Demsey McKean, Guido Vianello, Simon Kean. They’re all like big, high-profile names.”
However, Itauma also revealed that his choice would be to face his fellow Brit who is 10-0 against foreigners only.
“I want British domestic dust,” he added.
“I have called many names, we have given the war to many people. The main one was Solomon Dacres and I was threatening his boss at the o2. I said ‘why don’t you let me fight him?’ But he said ‘mate, we will not fight with you, you are a lost battle’. I said ‘fair enough’.
“Frazer Clarke is very true, he is not really on the radar at the moment but it is very true. Good fight, I love Frazer, he’s a good guy.
“The next fight will be in September, but it won’t be against Joshua-Dubois on September 21, unfortunately not.
“Definitely I still have two more fights left this year, definitely two Fury-Usyk but we want to get one before that.”
On his ambitions to become the youngest world champion in history, Itauma admitted that he was initially clueless about the treacherous path to the top.
He said: “Look, when I first became a worker, I did not know the politics associated with it. I just thought that two men get in the ring and fight, get on the podium and you become the world champion.
“It’s not that easy, there are a lot of things outside the ring that you can’t control. If I had known that I probably wouldn’t have said it!”
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