Mike Balogun is the former NFL star who has eliminated the son of a heavyweight legend
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Mike Balogun is the former NFL star who dares to eliminate heavyweight boxer, feared Brit Moses Itauma.
Itauma is only 20 years old and 11 attacks in his professional career, but has hit fear in the division With nine brutal knockouts.
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He even went called the next Mike Tyson – who became the youngest heavyweight champion of all time aged 20 years.
Finding willing opponents to risk their reputation against the young person from London has so far proved the most difficult fight in Itauma.
But this Saturday in Scotland on the undercard of Josh Taylor is Southpaw Balogun.
The 6FT 1 in -amerikaan first made its name in the NFLPlay for people like the San Francisco 49ers, the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys.
But his career as Linebacker ended in 2012 – by that time he had already trained in Boxing as part of his American football regime.
It was only after he had been released by the Virginia Destroyers that Balogun decided to cross to professional boxing.
He debuted in 2014 and his career transformation was underway.
The biggest victory of Balogun so far came in 2021 when he eliminated Trey Lippe Morrison – son of the late former world champion Tommy.
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The 41-year-old suffered his first and only defeat in 2023 against Murat Gassiev-Die his cruiserweight titles lost to Oleksandr USYK five years earlier.
Balogun will come to the UK with nothing to lose. In the meantime, Itauma has been tipped for quantity.
Mozes Itauma, 20, was in line this year for sensational world title fight against Oleksandr Usyk
His promoter Frank Warren Has already warned not to exclude a world title fight in the future with Usyk, 38.
In the meantime, Martin Bakole, 31, and Filip Hrgovic, 32, are two others on the radar of Itauma.
Warren told Tub: “Billy Nelson (trainer of Bakole) sent me an SMS about him at the end of the year or next year.
“Moses is not waiting for him, right? He will continue with his company and who knows, at the end of this year, I would expect Moses to have at least three fights.
“I didn’t have to drum Bakole in my work, I am in the Moses Itauma -Business and that is all that I care about.
‘I think that is [Itauma and Hrgovic] Also a good fight to make. I would not have a problem that year. ‘
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