Dillian Whyte will face Moses Itauma in a giant British heavyweight battle in Riyadh on August 16, it has been confirmed.
Former WBC Interim champion Whyte, 37, will face rising star Itauma, who’s undefeated with 10 knockout wins in 12 fights.
Nick Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title in opposition to Sam Goodman because the co-main occasion, whereas there will even be a junior light-weight combat between former champions Anthony Cacace and Raymond Ford.
Filip Hrgovic in opposition to David Adeleye, and Hayato Tsutaumi in opposition to Quais Ashfaq, full the August 16 invoice on the occasion related to the Esports World Cup, which is being held within the Saudi Arabian metropolis.
Whyte, who has defeated Joseph Parker, Derek Chisora and Oscar Rivas, is a sizeable step up for unbeaten 20-year-old Itauma.
The thrilling prospect is an outstanding prospect who’s scarcely put a foot mistaken to this point in his skilled profession, and he is nonetheless younger particularly for a heavyweight.
In Could Itauma made fast work of the 21-1 Mike Balogun. On the undercard of Tyson Fury’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk, Itauma scythed by means of Demsey McKean, considered a fringe world stage operator, in only one spherical and in addition final yr blasted away the usually sturdy heavyweight gatekeeper Mariusz Wach.
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Talking on the Toe2Toe podcast earlier than the combat was confirmed, promoter Frank Warren responded to hypothesis that elite heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma’s subsequent combat could possibly be Dillian Whyte
Whyte represents one other marker for the younger phenom. London’s Whyte is a former world title challenger who’s boxed a few of the greatest within the division.
He misplaced a WBC world title combat to Tyson Fury at Wembley stadium, had an exciting grudge match with Anthony Joshua for the British title a decade in the past and has additionally had thrilling bouts with Parker, now the WBO Interim titlist, and Chisora.
Whyte failed a drug check forward of a scheduled rematch with Joshua however was cleared to return to motion in Gibraltar final December when he overcame Ebenezer Tetteh.
