{"id":30377,"date":"2025-05-28T19:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/moses-itauma-breaking-mike-tysons-record-was-impossible\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:16:37","slug":"moses-itauma-breaking-mike-tysons-record-was-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/moses-itauma-breaking-mike-tysons-record-was-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma: Breaking Mike Tyson’s record was ‘impossible’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“In the first two months of me being professional, I realised that goal’s impossible. I was naive when I said that. I said that before I turned professional.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t realise how much you can’t control in this boxing game. You think since I turned professional, the world champions have been Daniel Dubois, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

“There’s no way in two years I would have put myself in a position to fight them.”<\/p>\n

Itauma’s two-round destruction of Mike Balogun on Saturday extended his record to 12 wins and 10 knockouts.<\/p>\n

He was initially marketed as the teenager to break Tyson’s record, but denied it was only ever a clever “marketing strategy” for his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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“In the first two months of me being professional, I realised that goal’s impossible. I was naive when I said that. I said that before I turned professional. “I didn’t realise how much you can’t control in this boxing game. You think since I turned professional, the world champions have been Daniel Dubois, Oleksandr Usyk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30379,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions\/30379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}