Aug 30, 2026
“In football, if you give 100 percent while your teammates don’t, you lose. With boxing, the outcome is in your hands.” — Moses Itauma | Quote of the Day
Moses Itauma, the 21-year-old British heavyweight from Chatham, Kent, who grew up in Slovakia as the target of racist abuse and turned his back on football because the result in boxing is never someone else’s to decide — the sentence that explains why the world’s most hyped young fighter chose a sport where he answers for everything himself. His words circulated everywhere in the days around his vacant IBF title shot against Filip Hrgović at the O2 Arena.