Moses Itauma dismantled Demsey McKean in Riyadh on Saturday night time as he gained within the first spherical with a brutal knockout.
Itauma is, for a lot of, the subsequent nice hope for British heavyweight boxing. If Tyson Fury is the elder determine, Anthony Joshua is fading from view, and Daniel Dubois is the present king, then it’s for 19-year-old Itauma to indicate the ready viewers what might come sooner or later.
Beneath the steering of promoter Frank Warren, Itauma had not confronted an opponent he was not anticipated to beat. 10 fights, 10 wins, eight knockouts.
Polish veteran Mariusz Wach lasted two rounds in July, and McKean was clearly his hardest check but.
The Australian had been unbeaten till August final 12 months, when he was stopped by Filip Hrgovic, and at 6’6″ was a probably dominant bodily presence.
Itauma wanted only a single spherical – much less, in reality – as he unleashed a flurry of physique pictures earlier than sending some left-hands over his opponent’s defence to depart McKean sprawled awkwardly after the primary effort, after which completed it with an much more brutal effort along with his second earlier than the match-up was waved away.
For Itauma it was his seventh first-round knockout of his profession, and he appears to be like an ominous prospect.
As a youngster on the again of such a exhibiting, he could now battle to discover a fighter prepared to take him on given the daunting problem he has to this point given all-comers.
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