Moses Itauma to fight Dillian Whyte on August 16 in Saudi Arabia as Brit sensation take huge step towards title shot
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THE Moses Itauma steam train is on course to collide with Dillian Whyte on August 16.
The 20-year-old heavyweight sensation has been struggling to find incremental step-up opponents, after demolishing his last two victims inside three combined rounds.
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The Moses Itauma steam train is on course to collide with Dillian Whyte on August 16
Credit: PA
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Whyte will fight Itauma on August 16 in Riyadh
Credit: PA
But the 37-year-old Brixton Body Snatcher has leapt up to the challenge and will face the hottest prospect in world boxing in the scorching Saudi desert in the middle of summer.
The clash would come just three months after the Slovakia-born Kent wonderkid battered poor Mike Balogun inside two rounds on May 24 and barked: "I don't have to worry about doing rounds, but my team wants to see me in a 10-rounder.
'And then I want in with the big dogs."
Whyte was scheduled to have a tune-up fight last night (SAT) in Ipswich but withdrew as soon as the big-money fight was placed on his table.
Itauma was also slated to have another litmus test on the July 19 Wembley showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois.
But Saudi boxing kingpin Turki Al Sheikh is a man on a mission to make the biggest and best bouts that he fancies.
And all the best-laid plans and blueprints go up in smoke when he dreams up a fantasy fight and stumps up the Riyals to stage it.
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