“I DON’T WANT IT 90-10 IN MY FAVOUR. I WANT 60-40, 50-50, AND TO BE THE UNDERDOG”
THERE is a long pause when it is put to Moses Itauma that the prospect of sparring Tyson Fury in the coming months is an exciting one. The teenager is a man of few words at the best of times, but even this does not get his juices flowing.
“Umm,” he says. “It’s just sparring. How can I be excited for sparring? I guess I’m excited about the opportunity and experience, but it’s still just sparring.”
Fair point, but this will be his chance to test himself, behind closed doors in big gloves and a headguard anyway, against a fighter regarded as the world’s leading heavyweight when he prepares for the long-awaited showdown against Oleksandr Usyk on February 17. Another pause.
“But how do you know that?” Itauma says eventually. “How do you know there isn’t someone in Czechoslavdagestan that’s better than him but just isn’t on the scene? So, tell me, how do you know he’s No.1?”
It is suggested that
