Itauma vs Huni for WBO interim belt

Based on what? Beating up a few cans?

Itauma looks a good prospect but he could just as easily be taken apart when he fights someone with actual ability. Lerena is an accomplished fighter.

Lots of premature ejaculators here.

 

Most people just use boxrec and punchstats as their argument as their brain can't analyse things

Itauma has head movement great footwork and punch selection, apart from Usyk, Fury and Parker the rest of the division are completely static

Its not jumping the gun everyone else has terrible defense we finally see someone with skill there hasnt been someone like him at HW for a long time

 

Good fight. Let's get it on. I think Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee will have too much for the young Englishman.

Justis can't afford to get walloped like he did against Kevin Lerena though. The fight is a great opportunity for him to show the world what a terrific talent he is.

No problem with these guys fighting for an interim world title. High risk should equal high reward.

 

No, it wouldn't be a while before Usyk fought the WBO mandatory ... if Parker kept the WBO interim belt.

Usyk is training (he just posted a clip) to fight the Parker-Dubois winner.

AGAIN, why isn't Parker-Dubois for both the IBF belt and the WBO interim belt?

If Parker (as the WBO's defacto next world title challenger) kept the WBO interim belt for his fight with Dubois, the winner of Parker-Dubois would literally be the WBO mandatory and fight Usyk next.

If it's Parker, he gets Usyk. If Dubois wins, he gets Usyk.

AGAIN, it's pointless making Moses-Justis yet another interim title fight. There is ZERO reason for it, except corruption by the WBO.

Nobody has been "waiting" for a title shot ... except PARKER. He's the top contender in the WBO, and he's fighting next month. If he wins, he gets the next shot at Usyk.

Since when have Moses and Justis been waiting for their "long deserved" WBO title shot?

It's complete corruption. Red flags are going off everywhere.

 

The fight itself isn't, the idea that a pair of prospects who haven't really even fought proper gatekeepers yet have any right to be fighting for any kind of belt, even a second or third tier one, is the laughable bit...

Indeed ... And how do they have even those fairly insignificant belts with what they've done to date?

Oh, that'll be it

 

He's a decent journeyman at very least, possibly scraping the bottom of the barrel as a gatekeeper.

Let's be honest, this forum isn't exactly hot on seeing proof before getting stuck into a hype narrative...

 

Umm... Okay...

The difference is the level of opponents so far...

Against lesser opponents (and old faded opponents especially) it's so much easier to make adjustments and look comfortable... The better the opponents get, the more time becomes a luxury, and that's when the decent and the serious get separated.

It's absolutely jumping the gun.

There's definitely potential, no question, but to have any kind of certainty of future success requires either an inability to understand what levels mean, or a desire (conscious or not!) to jump the gun and declare someone as something long before they've proved it.

 

Sanctioning bodies typically don´t allow for unification fights with an interim belt on the line.
It has happened occasionally, but the examples are super rare.

Heck, there are even several cases where sanctioning bodies don´t recognize the regular WBA belt, and refuse to sanction a unification.

 

I just checked. Parker has NOT vacated his WBO interim belt.

The WBO president said they'll let Parker be introduced as the WBO interim champ before the Dubois fight, then they're going to strip him the moment the bell rings. (Is this the new move now?)

Again, utter nonsense. What is the point of this?

What is the point of the WBO even having an interim champ? Apparently it's not to identify the next mandatory for their actual champ.

If Parker's hand is raised less than an hour after they strip him, are they actually going to say "Congrats on winning, good luck against Usyk next, but we no longer recognize you as next in line to challenge Usyk because we've stripped you?"

The WBO president even said "interim" champs can't unify, yet there is no rule in their own regulations that says this. He's making it up as he goes. The IBF is even sanctioning the fight and have no problem with a unification, the WBO is the one doing this lame flex.

This WBO president has his head so far up his own ass (or Itauma's) it's ridiculous.

 

The IBF has no problem with it in this case. They've already sanctioned it. Apparently, the WBO is the one doing the stripping this time. But not until the bell rings, because that's apparently the new move. More dramatic and stupid.

 

FFS he’s fought bums.

Let’s see how he goes when he gets hit. Let’s see how he goes against someone who can move and not just stand in front of him to get chinned.

You’re a premature ejaculator. Itauma may be the second coming or he may be just another guy who looks good crushing cans but fell apart when in against decent opposition. You have no way of knowing at this time.

I’d need to see a lot more to make that call and I’m certainly not going to blow my load making dumb predictions about a guy who only has bouncers and cab drivers on his record.

 

WTF is an interim belt anyways? I think all belts should just represent a certain geographic region and then naturally there is a hierarchy in belts derived from that.

 

I really hope that it isn't for the WBO interim title. Neither fighter should be involved in such a fight.

They are ranked at 5 and 6. Itauma beat a guy not even ranked by the WBO, so I'm not sure why he entered the top 10 above Wardley for example. Huni has been actively defending his WBO trinket so fair enough. However, both Bakole and Fury should be in line for the opportunity before Itauma and Huni based on the WBO rankings.

WBO #1 Zhang is fighting #4 Kabayle for the WBC interim (so fair enough, WBO plans to remove them from the rankings). WBO #2 Bakole is being talked about to fight #10 Ajagba. So, making #5 v #6 for the interim title (which Joseph Parker currently holds) seems very suspicious. WBO#3 Fury is also in the way and should get the opportunity before #5 and #6.

It would suggest the WBO are again acting like the pet-rankings for Warren.

 

Itauma's team will duck it.

 

It might be wise for them to duck it!