By Declan Taylor
HEAVYWEIGHT prodigy Moses Itauma has despatched his staff a five-man hitlist of opponents for his subsequent combat.
After stopping Mariusz Wach within the second spherical on the o2 on Saturday evening, the Slovakia-born Kent resident is anticipated to return to the ring in September earlier than an outing on the December 21 card in Saudi Arabia topped by Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch with Tyson Fury.
However, now 10-0 with eight fast, Itauma is turning into more and more onerous to match with few heavyweights prepared to try to sluggish his fast progress.
Itauma remains to be hoping to interrupt Mike Tyson’s report because the youngest world heavyweight champion however he would wish to take action earlier than the top of Could 2025 so a step-up in calibre is now being deliberate.
And Itauma himself has compiled a listing of names he thinks would match the invoice for his September outing.
“It’s all the way down to my staff; my supervisor, my promoter and my coach to see what we give you,” Itauma informed the George Groves Boxing Membership podcast.
“However I did ship them a listing of names truly, I’ll name out the listing that I mentioned to my staff. I mentioned: Tom Schwarz, Tony Yoka, Demsey McKean, Guido Vianello, Simon Kean. They’re all like large, excessive names.”
Nevertheless, Itauma additionally revealed his choice can be to tackle a fellow Brit having raced to 10-0 in opposition to international opposition solely.
“I need a British home dust-up,” he added.
“I’ve referred to as out so many names, we’ve supplied the combat to so many individuals. The principle one was Solomon Dacres and I used to be even terrorising his supervisor on the o2. I mentioned ‘why aren’t you letting me combat him?’ However he mentioned ‘mate, we aren’t going to take the combat in opposition to you, you’re a lose-lose combat’. I mentioned ‘honest sufficient’.
“Frazer Clarke is after all sensible, he’s probably not on the radar for the time being however it’s positively sensible. It’s an excellent combat, I like Frazer, he’s a pleasant fella.
“The subsequent combat can be September time, however it gained’t be on the Joshua-Dubois undercard on September 21, sadly not.
“I’ve positively obtained two extra fights left this yr, positively Fury-Usyk two however we need to get another earlier than that.”
On his aspirations to turn out to be historical past’s youngest world champion, Itauma admitted he was initially naive concerning the treacherous path to the highest.
He mentioned: “See after I first turned skilled I used to be unaware of the politics behind it. I simply thought two males get within the ring and combat, climb the rankings and you then turn out to be a world champion.
“It’s not that straightforward, there’s a lot stuff exterior the ring you possibly can’t management. If I’d have recognized that I in all probability wouldn’t have mentioned it!”