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Does Moses have more heavyweight qualities than Tyson?
Moses Itauma has a huge opportunity to make a heavyweight statement when he returns to action on Saturday, August 29 against Filip Hrgoivc at London's The O2 Arena.
The Briton has already taken major strides across his short career thus far, and victory over the hard-hitting Croatian can take him one step closer to a world title shot too.
Earlier this year, Moses looked good when he welcomed Jermain Franklin to Britain, and became the first man to stop the tough American with a one-sided performance.
Still just 21, the star's superb rise through the glamour-division ranks has earned comparisons to Mike Tyson - and one man well-placed to compare is trainer Teddy Atlas.
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One of boxing's shrewdest voices, the latter spent time with the explosive New Yorker in his early days, and is quite aware of the top qualities he possessed in the ring.
Now, having observed Moses from affair, Atlas has weighed in with CanadaCasino on how the star measures up against one of the sport's all-time heavyweights thus far.
"Where Itauma is different from Tyson is that he is more dimensional," he stated. "He can do more things. He can box a little bit, he can counterpunch.
"I have seen him set traps, he can go get you, he can go in the trenches, he can go in close, go to the body, go to the head and put punches together.
“Tyson was more of a one-direction seek-and-destroy machine, but a very good one.
"Tyson created opportunities for his speed and power by being aggressive and smart, moving his head and making you miss and pay.
"But you pretty much always knew what you were going to get. The greatest similarity is speed and power.
"Itauma is one of the first heavyweights since Tyson where I can say he shows you that combination of pure speed and pure power that Tyson showed.
"No other heavyweights really showed that combination with both hands the way Tyson did."
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