{"id":15767,"date":"2025-06-13T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/moses-itauma-vs-dillian-whyte-british-heavyweights-to-fight-in-saudi-on-16-august\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:26:43","slug":"moses-itauma-vs-dillian-whyte-british-heavyweights-to-fight-in-saudi-on-16-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/moses-itauma-vs-dillian-whyte-british-heavyweights-to-fight-in-saudi-on-16-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma vs Dillian Whyte: British heavyweights to fight in Saudi on 16 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Unbeaten heavyweight Moses Itauma will face fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in Saudi Arabia on 16 August.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old, seen as one of British boxing&#8217;s top prospects, has stopped 10 of his 12 opponents since turning professional. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout marks a major step up for the Kent fighter, with Whyte, 37, a former world-title challenger and seasoned contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the co-main event in Riyadh, Liverpool&#8217;s WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball, 28, defends his belt against Australia&#8217;s Sam Goodman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on the card, former super-featherweight world champion Anthony Cacace, 36, takes on American Raymond Ford, while British heavyweight David Adeleye, 28, faces Croatia&#8217;s Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0mrdv19nzlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbeaten heavyweight Moses Itauma will face fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in Saudi Arabia on 16 August. The 20-year-old, seen as one of British boxing&#8217;s top prospects, has stopped 10 of his 12 opponents since turning professional. The bout marks a major step up for the Kent fighter, with Whyte, 37, a former world-title challenger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15769,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15767\/revisions\/15769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}