{"id":115946,"date":"2026-03-27T02:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/itauma-vs-franklin-key-clash-for-the-rising-boxers-ascent\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:37:31","slug":"itauma-vs-franklin-key-clash-for-the-rising-boxers-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/itauma-vs-franklin-key-clash-for-the-rising-boxers-ascent\/","title":{"rendered":"Itauma vs. Franklin: Key clash for the rising boxer&#8217;s ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"Promising heavyweight boxer Moses Itauma has stated that his fight against Jermaine Franklin Jr. will be the &#8220;final piece of the puzzle&#8221; on his path to a world title.\n\nItauma, who seeks to gain valuable experience, will face Franklin in Manchester this Saturday. The American boxer has only suffered two defeats on points against Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte.\n\nIn his last nine fights, Itauma has not gone past the second round, accumulating only 26 rounds as a professional. His most recent victory was a first-round knockout against Whyte in August.\n\nAfter a seven-month period out of the ring due to injuries and difficulties finding opponents, Itauma is expected to take significant steps towards challenging for a world title this year.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1017%2Fr1561493_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>La carrera de Moses Itauma hacia el estrellato de los pesos pesados contin\u00faa este fin de semana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nItauma acknowledges that he will face a difficult challenge against a determined Franklin.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I get asked about other heavyweights, but I have a serious opponent in Jermaine Franklin. This fight is the final piece of the puzzle.<\/p><cite>Moses Itauma<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe explosive start to the 21-year-old&#8217;s career has drawn comparisons to a young Mike Tyson. However, his ability to win fights quickly has also raised questions about how he will handle the final rounds, pressure moments, and big punchers.\n\nPromoter Frank Warren is hoping to see what his young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 is made of.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This fight is a great moment in Itauma&#8217;s career. Jermaine is very respected, with a lot of experience. He will pose questions to Moses.<\/p><cite>Frank Warren<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWarren added that this is the most difficult test for Itauma so far.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promising heavyweight boxer Moses Itauma has stated that his fight against Jermaine Franklin Jr. will be the &#8220;final piece of the puzzle&#8221; on his path to a world title. Itauma, who seeks to gain valuable experience, will face Franklin in Manchester this Saturday. The American boxer has only suffered two defeats on points against Anthony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,238,10267,3110],"class_list":{"0":"post-115946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-heavyweight","10":"tag-jermaine-franklin","11":"tag-moses-itauma"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}