Dillian Whyte has a massive decision to make regarding his future, which the stats should make a lot easier, judging by his efforts against Moses Itauma.
After crunching the numbers, World Boxing News can reveal that Whyte didn’t connect with a single punch during his short-lived clash with the new heavyweight sensation.
Official CompuBox data shows Whyte attempted 14 punches in total, all jabs, with an accuracy of 0%. Not one power shot, not one head shot, and not a single body shot landed before the referee waved off the contest, with Whyte protesting.
The shocking stat line underlines Itauma’s dominance in what experts previously billed as the most significant step of his young career to date. However, Whyte coming in at his lightest for a decade seems to have pulled the wool over many eyes.
In reality, that kind of weight loss only usually goes one of two ways.
Whyte, once a perennial contender at the world level, failed to impose himself in any way before being overwhelmed.
Itauma vs Whyte stats:
Total Punches: 14 thrown, zero landed
Accuracy: 0%
Jabs: 14 thrown, zero landed
Power Punches: zero thrown
Head Shots: zero landed
Body Shots: zero landed
The numbers reinforce just how clinical Itauma was in neutralizing the veteran. For Whyte, the complete shutout raises serious questions over his future at the elite end of the division.
Tyson Fury’s Verdict
Tyson Fury, who effectively ended Whyte’s career in a 2022 Wembley destruction, hailed Itauma as the future while inadvertently claiming the younger would be all the old guard, which many say includes himself.
“Boxing is a young man’s game, like I told Wladimir Klitschko when he was 37. It’s a young man’s game, and it waits for nobody.
“Moses Itauma will wreck all those old men out of the division: Usyk, AJ [Anthony Joshua], [Jarrell] Miller, whoever is old; [Zhilei] Zhang, Luis Ortiz.
“All these big names of the past are all spent forces.
“Even the world champion now, who they gave my belts to, Usyk, Moses will wreck him because it’s a young man versus an old man, and old men can’t mess with young men.”
Itauma still has much to prove, but there’s no denying the hype surrounding the Slovakian-born puncher. If heavyweight rankings altered on column inches over the last week, Itauma would undoubtedly be number one.
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