Moses Itauma needed less than two minutes to emphatically stop Dillian Whyte and further strengthen his credentials as the next heavyweight star.

It’s absurd to even consider someone who’s had 13 fights, after a relatively short amateur career, a possible opponent for Usyk, argues former world champion and ProBox commentator Chris Algieri.

And reacting to emerging challenger Moses Itauma’s devastating knockout of Dillian Whyte over the weekend, Fury weighed up the Slovak-born striker’s chances of toppling Usyk in a mooted title fight.