Tyson Fury has always backed himself to beat anyone, including Oleksandr Usyk.
And for many years, his predictions rang true. The Gyspy King first became world champion back in 2015 when he beat Wladimir Klitschko, and then shocked the world when he knocked out Deontay Wilder twice after drawing the first fight in their trilogy.
Along the way, he has been a vocal supporter of young Moses Itauma, having sparred him in the gym and seen him win his first 13 fights, 11 of then by KO and nine of them inside the first two rounds.
Speaking recently on social media, Fury outlined once more why Itauma is destined for the top and why he believes he would ‘wreck’ Usyk.
“I keep getting asked about young Moses Itauma fighting Oleksandr Usyk and fighting all the other big names. My opinion is not someone who doesn’t know boxing. My opinion is someone who has been there and won every single belt. Won everything there is to win in boxing and done very well. Boxing is a young man’s game, like I told Wladimir Klitschko when he was 37. Boxing is a young man’s game. It waits for nobody.
So here is the opinion, and you heard it here first: Moses Itauma will wreck all them all old men out of the division. Usyk, AJ, Miller. Whoever there is that’s old. Zhang, whoever else the f—k there is. Luis Ortiz. All these big names of the past. Even the man who took my belts. Usyk, Moses will wreck him because it’s a young man versus an old man. And an old man can’t mess with a young man.”
Usyk is nearing 40 years of age, while Itauma is still just 20, which could be a huge factor if they were to fight. It’s not next for Itauma however, with Michael Hunter and David Adeleye currently the favourites to square up with the heavyweight hopeful.
