What's next for Moses Itauma?
Dan and Chris are back recapping the wild Filip Hrgovic-Moses Itauma fight, Lester Martinez's big win in LA and Chantelle Cameron's narrow victory over Mikaela Mayer.
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How does Moses Itauma bounce back?
Because he's at the precipice of a title shot.
Now he has to go way backwards and figure out his stamina.
How is Frank Warren at Queensbury going to build Itauma back up?
Really tough because, again, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna go right back to, to Klitschko and Brewster, and once they figured out his nutritional training pace, pacing for a big guy situation, and the rebuild, and the time it took to do that, and then you get one of the most dominant heavyweight runs of, of, of, in all of history.
The problem is Klitschko was a really good amateur and had a lot of experience, and Itauma does not.
I'm always going back to that.
I'm gonna always go back to the fact that he doesn't have a deep amateur pedigree.
He does not have a lot of fights.
This is gonna take a long time to rebuild because you can't take a- another, another risk and be like, "I don't know, he's, he- he's ready."
No, he's not ready.
He wasn't ready this time.
He's gonna be way less ready.
You know, he needs, he needs a long rebuild where he's literally gonna have to He's gonna have to go old school.
I think old school mowing down, mowing down 10 fights a year.
Like what they should've done to s- to, what they should've done for the last two years?
Correct.
Because again, you go Guys, we're forgetting about am- pe- we miss talking about amateurs all the time, and this is coming from a fighter with no amateur fights.
I have no amateur boxing fights.
Amateurs matter.
Amateurs matter.
And he, you don't have a, you don't have a deep amateur pedigree?
All right, cool, you gotta, you gotta cut your teeth in the pros, which is really difficult to do, and they didn't do that.
They, they skipped over it because he looked so goddamn good.
Now they're gonna have to go back.
You know, he needs 10 fights next year.
Well, that's not gonna happen.
No, it's not.
So I don't know.
I don't, I don't know if Moses gets back.
He, okay, the flip side of that is that he looked spectacular.
He's- Yeah, he looked spectacular his punch placement is absurd.
His, his hand speed is next, is unbelievable.
His power is, is good enough.
It's not devastating power.
He's more of about a placement thing.
The flip side is that he looked phenomenal.
He was controlling this fight.
He was winning this fight until his body shut off.
So you say it's gonna be a long road back, but the talent is there.
But the confidence and the s- Like, how much of a fix is that to- Bro, the psyche It's more the stamina.
No, it's the psyche.
The stamina you can fix.
It's the psyche.
He got broken by another man.
Bro, that's, that's really hard to come back from.
That, that is gonna take time.
That's what's gonna take time.
I wonder, though.
I wonder, like, does this So next year, 2027, is he in there with a top 10 heavyweight?
I mean, we gotta see how long he's gonna be out.
That guy left in a stretcher
