What can you say on Itauma's power?

He was fighting kids.

There isn't a comparison between him fighting Junior Championships against teenagers when you look at who others were fighting in their last amateur fights - usually in the Olympics.

It's not remotely the same. Nearly all his amateur fights came against 12-17-year-olds. Not grown men. Certainly not world-class amateurs.

Lewis and Bowe's last amateur fights were against EACH OTHER in the Olympic Final. Joshua's, Usyk's, Wilder's, Hrgovic's, etc., last amateur fights were all Olympic medal fights against experienced world-ranked amateur vets.

The European tournament you keep bringing up that Itauma dominated came against kids who basically quit after that and haven't boxed in years.

It's not the same.

 

eh, when Tyson was older and slower, with his technique pretty degraded, he was still scoring one punch KDs and KOs. evidence would suggest he really was naturally heavy handed.

 

Makes me wonder how he's already lost.

To be honest sparring stories are basically fairy tales. And theres been more than a few gym legends whose career in the professional arena fell far short of the myth around them.

Itauma is a definite wait and see as of now.

 

I’m not sure an inability to knock out Hrgovic means anything. George Foreman and Mike Tyson couldn’t knock out Evander Holyfield. Lennox Lewis couldn’t knock out Ray Mercer.

some dudes have granite bricks for heads and their feet glued to the canvas.

 

Yes he was heavy handed. I never said he wasn't. His effectiveness diminished greatly when his speed and athleticism left him though. Watch the Brian Nielsen fight as an example of this.

 

I don't think he has much power on his shots at all, similar puncher to Joseph Parker imo

 

He's not fit to lace Tyson's gloves.

 

Overrated. You have to sit down on some of that stuff, like Abel Sanchez said Itauma can't throw a correct punch.

I saw the light after the fight. I picked Itauma going in for his speed, not his power. But, really, I have to hand it to Tyson Fury.. he went against the grain and said Itauma didn't have the experience (I don't think he mentioned Itauma's punch technique, though). Hats off to Tyson Fury there.

 

Fury also said last year sometime that boxing was a young man's game and that Moses would clean out him, Usyk, and all the other established vets of the division. The man chats a lot of waffle.

I do agree that Itauma's power isn't really anything to write home about. He's got phenomenal hand speed that requires him to redline himself to keep up. Once he gets tired, whatever dangers he posed rapidly start falling off a cliff. I don't think he truly bothered Hrgovic with anything he was throwing after about the 5th round. He mistakenly thought he'd hurt Hrgovic in the 8th and then finally emptied the tank for good, but he accomplished nothing there.

 

You're not wrong. I just wanted wanted to give Fury some credit for the first time in years.. because I did pick Itauma to win.

 

I dunno, could it be the often embittered Holmes, who was so contemptuous of Tyson before they fought, & suffered a bit of a humiliating, first & only time being KOed defeat, was not honest here?

Yes Tyson did not hit as hard as the absolute Monsters then: Bonehugger, Bruno & Ruddock he faced 5 times total.
But he stll hit very hard, & I am skeptical that Norton hit as hard.