David Haye this there is one active heavyweight who stands a better chance than anyone else of beating Oleksandr Usyk.
Usyk is unbeaten across his 24-fight professional career. The Ukrainian southpaw started down at cruiserweight and within six years cleaned out the division to become undisputed, then six years later repeated the feat up at heavyweight, where he became a two-time undisputed ruler back in August.
He has beaten Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois, all twice, and is now 38-years-old and nearing the end of his career.
With that in mind, Haye has named the heavyweight who he believes has the best shot of defeating the Ukrainian, as speaking to iFLTV, ‘The Hayemaker’ backed 20-year-old rising star Moses Itauma to give Usyk as much of a challenge as anyone.
“He’s got the best shot out of anyone to beat him, even how inexperienced he is. He’s got the firepower and the heavy-handedness to cause all sorts of problems for anybody. I know Usyk’s a genius and he is the best in the world but I’m talking about the person who has the best chance in the world to beat him. I’m not saying he’s going to beat him, I’m saying who else is there that’s got a better chance?”
“Everyone else has tried and failed and he’s young and fast and hungry and he seems to have heavy hands. Usyk is not a natural heavyweight. He’s a pumped-up cruiserweight and he’s done really well but those punches Moses is throwing would take out any natural-born heavyweight. He showed how powerful he is by taking Whyte out with such ease.”
Itauma is a KO artist with 13 wins to his name, 11 by stoppage and nine of them inside the first two rounds. He most recently stopped Dillian Whyte inside the first two minutes, so is very much looking like a future world champion.
Haye is not alone in thinking that Itauma is now ready to take on generational great Usyk.
