Rematch clause?
While there are no confirmed reports – it appears as though there will NOT be a rematch clause in the contract between Itauma and Whyte.
With Itauma aged 20 and Whyte 17 years older, they are at opposite ends of their careers.
Itauma will be hoping to push forwards into the title scene with a victory, and Whyte will be looking to prove he still belongs at the top, so a rematch may not be on the agenda for either fighter.
SunSport will keep you updated if and when a rematch clause is confirmed in the contract between the pair.
What’s the Dill?
Dillian Whyte rocked up to Riyadh 17lb lighter than his last bout and 1lb lighter than the rival almost half his age.
But he vowed to unload the heavy artillery inside the ring, after a very tame build-up from the reformed Brixton bad boy.
“Things have gone good,” he said about his dramatic weight loss. “That’s it. He was saying stuff at the press conference and I just him told him to relax, take it easy and chill out.
“He asked me to take my glasses off and today I came in with no glasses. I’m a chilled guy until people mess me about.
“I don’t need to be a bully. I can just switch like that, when I need to.”
Whyte a ‘wounded animal’?
Moses Itauma saw a ‘wounded animal’ in the eyes of super-skinny Dillian Whyte.
Whyte stunned the crowd with a six pack and 244lb of muscle, Itauma got to see his pupils and he reckons he spotted prey.
At 245lb he growled: “I saw a wounded animal. I’m not looking for the knockout but if it happens, it happens.”
Frankly speaking
Frank Warren reckons Moses Itauma is so calm and calculated that even the Planet’s Baddest Man might struggle to scare him.
The 73-year-old Hall-of-Famer told SunSport: “Mike Tyson, in the early days, won 90 per cent of his fights outside the ring.
“The intimidation was unbelievable. I mean, he really intimidated people.
“Most of the American heavyweight guys back then were from the streets but that’s what he managed to do with a lot of them.
“There were a rare couple of fighters he couldn’t intimidate, like Buster Douglas.
“And he couldn’t intimidate Evander Holyfield in any way, shape or form.
“And I think, with Moses, I think you have a hard job to intimidate him.”
