Moses Itauma is one of the most exciting young heavyweight talents since Mike Tyson almost 40 years ago.
What made young Tyson so unstoppable was his knockout power. He was so feared for it that many of his opponents looked beaten even before the American got in the ring. He knocked out all of his first 19 opponents inside the first six rounds, and the first 12 of them fell in the first.
By the age of 20, Tyson had become a world champion and in the process set a record which has not yet been broken as the youngest ever man to do so.
However, Itauma is hunting down that historic feat. He has so far had 11 fights and won all of them, nine by way of stoppage. His last two have been most impressive with TKOs over Demsey McKean in the first round and Mariusz Wach in the second round.
As seen in a clip by Fight Bubble on X, Itauma ran into Tyson in Saudi Arabia before Christmas and got some advice from the legend after saying he was looking only for quality fights.
“Any fight with a fighter is quality ’cause anything can happen in there. There is no such thing as bums.”
He then summed up the most important advice for the young prospect.
“You learn from losses.”
Itauma has already had high-level sparring against the likes of Tyson Fury and has been named as a future champion by the team of Oleksandr Usyk. He has no fight scheduled right now and has until summer to get a world title shot if he is to beat Tyson’s record.
