Whyte v Itauma face off

Like a paddle. The board was to keep the gate shut. I remember the last time I got whooped by it. My grandma was sick and living with us. She stayed in my pareents room and may parents slept in the living room. My pops was working graveyard. Imagine, working graveyard and sleeping in the living room with 4 kids. Anyway, he was trying to sleep and my brother and I were sitting at the foot of the bed watching TV. My dad's foot came from under the sheets and and had the brilliant idea to tickle it. Needless to say me and my totally innocent brother got it. The thing that sticks out is my brother pissed off, telling me that he told me not to do it. LOL

 

I get it too. itauma makes dubois look charismatic. While i do feel itaumas star while rise for a few years cause the heavyweight division is played out for now and in desperate need of young upcoming talents. They are not gonna risk him even against an ancient usyk cause they know there are hardly any fighters that could potentially derail his " perfect reign". But his dull personality and lack of boxing rivals will be a curse for him and his promoters going forward at the same time.

 

I know Whyte has popped for PEDs, and has been rumoured to have popped a lot more. But I can only find him once actually being sanctioned back in 2012.

And that was due to jack3d which got a lot of athletes back then as one of the ingredients was only banned in 2010 and it wasn't too obvious that it had changed. Sloppy from Whyte, but not purposeful doping.

The other times I could find it looks like the elements were very small and he had batch numbers or something, this was consistent with supplement contamination and he seems to have been cleared.

Does anyone know any other examples of him actually purposefully doping? Because right now it just looks like reputation and rumor without actual substance.

 

Hope Whyte causes the upset been written off too many times. Haven't watched this head to head yet will do later today.

Itauma young, fresh, healthy. But Whyte is experienced and battle hardened, I just feel if Whyte avoid a povetkin style hit he will take Itauma to deep waters and drown him.

 

mfers here will try to convince you Whyte has a chance the same way they tried to convince you he had a chance against Fury lmao. Whyte was never been good and he is getting decapitated in a couple of rounds this saturday

 

I don't care much if a boxer has no charisma outside the ring, as long as they put on a good show inside the ring. I can't fault Itauma yet. He's been punching men in the head fast and hard and at least looks like he could develop into a world class boxer-puncher over the next two or three years. He has some ability. I don't know what level he'll reach though. He's going to have to win on Saturday and step up a level or two beyond that to really call him a world contender.

I have never liked or rated Whyte much but I would like to see him get the win or at least give Itauma a severe testing. I don't want to see a quick blow out and just left thinking it's the case of a young guy being fed another has-been to make him look good. It's hard not to feel that Whyte peaked 6 or 7 years ago and was not exactly a dominating winning heavyweight back then. I can't say I ever rated him anyway so it's not an interesting fight unless Itauma struggles.

 

Whyte had a decision win against Parker over 7 years ago. Whyte is no longer at that level whereas Parker is a bit better now. If he can beat Itauma he'll be relevant again.

 

Forget deep waters.
Whyte's better chance is to chin Itauma early.

 

Fury and Itauma aren't even remotely comparable.

 

Where did I say they are comparable as boxers? What is comparable is the narrative. Whyte was always one of the most overhyped hws in this era. Popped infinite times for PEDs, got a dodgy decision against Parker where he should have been DQ or lose. Won a gifted decision against Chisora the first time. Got chinned by the same punch in all of his loses and never fixed that flaw. BuT Oh He BAdLy HuRt AJ WiTh A LeFt HoOk nevermind he got battered the entire of the fight except that left hook and He StoPpEd PoVeTkiN iN ThE SeConD FiGhT, nevermind povetkin chinned him when he was 95 years old and Whyte beat him when Pov had Covid and being 100 years old shell of himself. And that was prime Whyte

Itauma will KO Whyte faster than Fury. People are deluding themselves the same way they deluded themselves that Whyte has a great chance to KO Fury just because they wanted him to lose. It's the same way here.

 

I'm now rooting for Whyte for that alone!

 

You imply they're comparable by using them as an example.

How does Itauma, who is essentially still a prospect, beat Whyte more convincingly than Fury (an undefeated world champion at the time)?

 

I find him to be a bit enigmatic. I'm not sold that his psychology is sound. For an elite prospect, it's a little odd. His eyes do look a bit dead. Could be introverted/young, or could be a bit suspect. Usually this type of thing shows early. Dubois one could probably tell something wasn't right from very early on. But I don't think Itauma is as bad. In interviews he indicates he doesn't want to get hit a bit too much. He probably doesn't like the actual fighting and training part that much.