Jalolov has Itauma's number

Oh true, so where did this he started late narrative come from? That is pretty early compared to a lot of great heavyweights. When did Mike Tyson start boxing for example? He was like 13 from what I recall.

 

Nah Jalolov fights with his hands around his waist, he's getting away with it against cans but any decent pro is gonna pick him apart. Itauma would land combinations before Jalolov could do anything about it.

 

As for Jalolov, he seems unmotivated as a pro. He'd probably prefer to win his 3rd Olympic gold instead of building his pro resume

 

What's the point?

Jalolov is basically the same generation as Kabayel and Parker...
He's 31, Agit is 32, Parker is 33.

He's not the age of prospect that's worth investing in, nor has he shown any sign of being remotely interested in the pro game.

Jalolovs shown no real signs of being entertaining as a pro, nor has he shown he's within a million miles of legit in the pro ranks...

He's a waste of time, I have no idea what the obsession is with praying that he'll finally show an interest in stepping up - he won't.

 

Do you believe that Jalolov will never step up and fight anyone in the top 15 at least? Ever?

 

Easy question, simple answer - no.

 

Let me know when he actually step up to Whyte's level of opponents.

 

Would luv to see a Jalolov-Itauma match-up just the same. Hopefully some $$ can be thrown into the pot to lure the reluctant Uzbek....

 

If he has his number he should call him on it to arrange a fight

But I think his network has been down for about 9 years considering his career

 

The fact he is being moved so slowly tells me all I need to know about Jalolov

 

The story is that he "started" boxing at nine (could mean he was just in the gym with his brother) but switched to pursuing soccer and took up boxing seriously after he gave up wanting to become a soccer player. So they avoid stating what age exactly. My personal guess is you don't give up on your dreams of being a soccer player until at least your teenage years. So that is when I believe he probably began to box seriously. I looked around for videos and info about his amateur fights but I couldn't find anything which is odd considering this would have been well into the age of smartphones and social media and a 24-0 amateur will be generating a lot of attention and eyes on him.... yet... nothing.

That for me is a red flag considering his trainer Ben Davison "claims" to have a 17-0 amateur record and yet has no videos or evidence of any kind of this ever happening.... a 17-0 amateur is generating lots of eyes on him and going out to big tournaments at this stage and meeting with other top amateurs and important boxing people.... So we are to believe Davison was a top amateur at one point? Yet has no evidence of that or of anyone to back up this star in the making amateur ever existed?

Itauma given his obvious skill should have a little more content from his amateur career out there I mean there should have been lots of people going crazy about this kid right?

My own opinion... he started boxing pretty late and had little to no amateur bouts and got fastracked after making some noise as a guy in the gym giving good sparring... and they probably want to move him ssslllooooooowwwwww because of it

 

Exactly.

 

It is recorded on Boxrec that he won amateur fight in Feb 2017 on Tenterden ABC Show, and later in May 2017 Itauma won 2017 English Schools Championships. He was just 12 then.

Lewis, Tyson, Usyk - all of them started later. Usyk had his 1st amateur fight at the age of 16, 4 years older than Itauma.

It should be noted however that Itauma never fought grown men as amateur - he was fighting teens who were same age as him. Tyson or Michael Dokes for example have fought elite grown amateurs when they were teens.

 

Itauma won the European and World Youth championships.

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Looking at his record all his amateur bouts mainly take place in the year 2022 at age 18 all in one year. He has some youth fights up to age 14 like you said against young boys. Looking at who he was fighting in that one big year I don't see anyone of note all his opponents having only around 20 or less fights, many with much less, seeing some guys that only have 7 fights, one opponent with only 2 fights, one guy that he faced in a "final" with only 1 fight, so this is not near or close to elite level.

It looks like to me he did box as a kid but didn't take it seriously until 18 when he had most of his amateur fights in one year against limited and inexperienced opposition. Then after that he got fast tracked into the pros. I don't compare that to someone like Usyk who you bring up who was world level and facing elite competition and guys with over a hundred fights of experience in the amateurs or even lesser amateurs, someone like Richard Torrez for example. Honestly combining Torrez's deeper and more proven amateur career and his standout pros win over Vianello objectively puts him over Itauma currently.