It took Moses Itauma less than two minutes to pass his latest test, as the 20-year-old heavyweight prospect thrashed Dillian Whyte for a first-round knockout win in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Itauma overwhelmed the 37-year-old Whyte pretty much immediately, first with his speed and then with the power that came behind it, wobbling the veteran badly before putting him down.
Whyte got up to his feet, but the referee had already counted the former title challenger out, seeing and reasoning that Whyte was in no shape to continue.
Whyte did protest a bit, but he was on visibly unsteady legs.
Whyte likely hoped to push the fight into the second half, as Itauma still has not gone past six rounds as a professional, but the rising star clearly had no intention of letting that happen.
It has been some years since Whyte was a legitimate top 10 contender in the division, but he was still the toughest on-paper test of Itauma’s young career, and Itauma has proven that he is certainly beyond the level of today’s Dillian Whyte.
Source:badlefthook.com
