Moses Itauma points out that fans expect him to evaporate Dillian Whyte on August 16th, but they didn’t have the same expectations from Joseph Parker and Tyson Fury when they fought him.
Fans Believe Whyte Is Finished
Itauma (12-0, 10 KOs) argues that the fans have unrealistic expectations of him. However, fans have seen the physical deterioration in Whyte’s game, and would expect him to be knocked out not only by Itauma but by any of the top 10 contenders in the division. You throw Whyte in with Lenier Pero, Richard Torrez Jr, and Agit Kabayel, and it’s going to be a feeding frenzy.
Dillian Whyte: Shell of His Former Self
The whole reason Itauma is being matched against Whyte is that he’s a broken shell. If he were still fighting in top form, there’s no way on Earth that Itauma would be fighting him.
Those heavyweights would pounce on the shell of Dillian and finish him quickly. It’s not that the naive public believes that Itauma is great. They know he’s not. It’s just that Whyte is so shot at this point in his career, he’d be food for any fighter worth their grade. Itauma is showing his youth in his failure to grasp why fans are expecting him to finish off what’s left of Whyte’s broken shell.
Whyte’s Recent fights
– Ebenezer Tetteh
– Christiam Hammer
– Jermaine Franklin
– Tyson Fury
“When it comes to my career, everyone thinks I’m going to blast Dillian Whyte out of the water. But then no other heavyweight thinks like that,” said Moses Itauma to talkSport boxing, reacting to fans predicting that he’s going to vaporize the journeyman Dillian Whyte.
Itauma Fails to Grasp Whyte’s State
What Itauma is failing to grasp is how poor Whyte has looked in his last four fights. Physically, the 37-year-old Dillian is not the same fighter he was during his best years. He’s lost a lot from his game from the witches’ brew of becoming a wealthy millionaire, dealing with inactivity, weight gain, and repeated poor performances.
“People didn’t think Tyson Fury was going to knock Dillian Whyte out and blast him out of the waters. People don’t think Joseph Parker is going to blast Dillian Whyte out, but then they think I’ll be able to do it. But I’m not ready for Joseph Parker and Usyk,” said Itauma.
Whyte was 28 when he fought Parker and was fighting at a much higher level than he is now. So, obviously, fans didn’t expect Parker to knock him out. Itauma seems a bit slow on the uptake in his failure to understand the difference in age and physical deterioration from the version of Whyte he’s facing and the one Parker and Fury fought. Of course, fans didn’t expect those guys to annihilate Dillian.