“The reason why we want rounds is because the last time I went the distance was with Kevin Nicolas Espindola [in 2023],” Itauma said. “So that was my full fight in, and beating Dillian Whyte has kind of put me on a new trajectory. The first time that I’m going into the eighth round, ninth round, 10th round can’t be against someone like Fabio Wardley, Daniel Dubois, Oleksandr Usyk, Agit Kabayel or whatever. I need to know what it’s like to experience the latter part of fights, so that is why we’ve got Jermaine Franklin: He’s tough, he’s durable, and not only that, he comes to fight.
Moses Itauma, despite comparisons to Mike Tyson, is his own man
