Itauma faces Hrgović for vacant IBF title
Reality check: just how good is Itauma?
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Hello and welcome to London’s O2 Arena, where we are counting down to one of the more intriguing heavyweight attractions of the year and, just maybe, the launch of a new era in boxing’s bellwether division.
Moses Itauma is only 21 years old, unbeaten in 14 paying fights and already being spoken about in the sort of glowing terms normally reserved for fighters who have spent years at or near the top of the division. Tonight the prodigiously gifted southpaw from Chatham can become the second-youngest heavyweight champion in history, behind only Mike Tyson, when he faces Filip Hrgović for the vacant International Boxing Federation title at the O2 Arena.
