{"id":12798,"date":"2026-04-12T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:30:45","slug":"fury-vs-joshua-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-including-moses-itauma-derek-chisora-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12798","title":{"rendered":"Fury vs Joshua: What next for heavyweight division &#8211; including Moses Itauma, Derek Chisora &#038; Anthony Joshua?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the most exciting prospects in the sport is also keen to take on a big name in the heavyweight division next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Moses Itauma, 21, earned an impressive fifth-round win over Jermaine Franklin in March, becoming the first fighter to stop the American in 27 fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Itauma&#8217;s team must now decide what next for a young fighter who, so far, has proved that the hype is justified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His win over Franklin kept him as number one challenger for the WBO title, so if his team feels he is ready, a fight against the winner of Wardley v Dubois could be next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A learning fight for Itauma seems the best option as he waits for his world title shot. Itauma has mentioned that an option is seasoned contender Filip Hrgovic, who fights Dave Allen in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Richard Riakporhe is the new British champion and Derek Chisora has appeared to do a U-turn on his retirement plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Frazer Clarke and Jeamie &#8216;TKV&#8217; Tshikeva both picking up losses on the Fury undercard in entertaining fights, there are plenty of options for British heavyweights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting prospects in the sport is also keen to take on a big name in the heavyweight division next. Britain&#8217;s Moses Itauma, 21, earned an impressive fifth-round win over Jermaine Franklin in March, becoming the first fighter to stop the American in 27 fights. Itauma&#8217;s team must now decide what next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}