By Declan Taylor
MOSES ITAUMA desires an all-British showdown with Joe Joyce in Saudi.
The pair each boxed on the o2 Enviornment card on July 27 however had differing fortunes on the evening.
Joyce was dropped en path to a unanimous determination defeat after 10 brutal rounds with Dereck Chisora in the primary occasion.
However Itauma barely broke a sweat as he ruthlessly despatched the usually-durable Mariusz Wach inside two rounds.
It’s understood that Itauma won’t field once more now till an look on the undisputed world heavyweight rematch present topped by Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch with Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia on December 21.
And the 19-year-old desires to mark the event by securing an enormous title opponent and believes Joyce matches the invoice.
He stated: “Me and my brother have been considering Joe Joyce can be an excellent combat.
“I really feel prefer it’d be a little bit of a Mariusz Wach state of affairs, the place individuals suppose he’s bought a chin, he’s gonna take me someplace. That may very well be an excellent combat for me – Joe Joyce may very well be an excellent combat for me.
“I’d take any combat, actually. I’m screaming for a great deal of individuals’s names, however none of them actually make sense. ‘Who do you need to go for?’ ‘Who’s bought the titles.’ Solomon Dacres; Fabio Wardley; the Ukrainian man that has the European title. They’re the type of those who I need to be combating, however on the similar time, for me to combat them, it doesn’t make sense.”
Itauma’s supervisor Francis Warren has been working additional time in a bid to safe a longtime heavyweight for Itauma to combat however has typically hit a brick wall in negotiations.
“I perceive why they don’t need to combat me,” Itauma stated. “If I used to be of their footwear, I wouldn’t take the combat with me both. Why would I? It’s a dropping state of affairs. If I win, it’s, ‘He’s meant to try this – he’s a child’. For those who lose, you’ll be able to’t actually come again from that since you bought beat by a child.
“The Wach combat was simpler than I anticipated. I skilled laborious for that combat. Firstly I assumed this was going to be a combat I’d have to beat; showcase one thing else, not simply energy. It didn’t get to that time. It was a bit bit disappointing.”
