After it was formally announced that Moses Itauma will be taking on Filip Hrgovic on August 29, Queensberry promoter told Sky Sports that the future of his 21-year-old star in the making is quite bright indeed, and while he’s already in position to contend for a world title, they want to keep him active rather than waiting out a title fight.
“If [Itauma] wins, world title fight. He’s No 1 now, he could sit it out and wait for it but we want to keep him busy and get experience and that’s what he wants,”
Warren said. “I’d like that to happen, I’d like him to fight this year for it. We want to be able to get it done this year.”
Itauma, with a more muted tone, says he leaves it all in God’s hands and that if not this year, he could get his chance in the coming year. Of course, that’s all contingent on him coming through with the task at hand in Hrgovic, who has his own plans of wrecking Itauma’s.
Pressure, however, is something Itauma says he’s accustomed to, and is not something he allows to get too him much as he instead adopts the philosophy of allowing the pressure to forge him into a diamond.
