MOSES ITAUMA: I’m the Future Heavyweight Champion. This is How I’ll Do It
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Moses Itauma is one of the most exciting names in boxing right now. He’s a former European and World Junior Champion who’s widely tipped to become Britain’s next heavyweight superstar.
I’ve always been really interested in the journey someone goes on before they become the next big thing and that’s exactly where Moses is.
At just 21, he’s on the brink of greatness as he prepares to face Jermaine Franklin this Saturday night. It’s a world away from where it all began… when he first stepped into a boxing gym aged nine and hated every second of it. From a small town in Slovakia to one of the most talked about heavyweight prospects in the world, Moses’s journey has been anything but ordinary.
In this episode, Moses shares:
- Leaving Slovakia at the age of 3 and building a new life in Kent
- Why he refuses to trash talk his opponents
- What really happened behind the scenes of his fight with Dillian Whyte
- What professional boxers actually get paid
- The mindset, discipline and habits that are taking him to the top
This isn’t just a conversation about boxing. It’s about resilience, belief and what it really takes to become the very best.
Moses Itauma is in Great Company.
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| 0:00.0 | It was inevitable for me to be successful. When did you feel that? I knew when I was a kid. I can't work this hard and not be successful. That mentality, Moses, no. Overnight success doesn't just happen overnight. You're 12, 13, 14 years old. You haven't experienced that yet. Most kids just go, well, I'm just going to give up. And I did that at one point. |
| 0:29.2 | Moses Atama. I'm in great company. Your winner, Moses Atarma. Your professional career is 13 wins, |
| 0:34.8 | 11 knockouts. You're top of your game at the moment, man. Amateur boxing is a sport. Professional boxing is a fight. Walking out into the ring for that big fight. Do you feel nervous? I told him to take his glasses off because I wanted to see his eyes. I said, I want to see if it's a wolf or a sheep. What did you see? He knows what I saw. If you were going to call out someone, who would it be? Do you think you'd beat him? Silly question. How important is family to you? It's big. there was nine of us in a two-bedroom house. There was rats. There was this. |
| 0:58.1 | There was nine of us in a two-bedroom house. There was rats. There was this, there was that. I was a two-time national champion, two-time European gold medalist in the world, and still ain't got a single penny from boxing. I've had two mild concussions, and I had one severe one as well. Do you worry about that? One's one of my biggest fits. I was still playing with all this fame. |
| 1:11.5 | You can't remember being there. |
| 1:12.5 | I stopped boxing for like seven, eight months. |
| 1:15.1 | He did you say I'm quitting to? |
| 1:16.2 | My brother, he saw me with the wrong crowd. |
| 1:18.5 | He was like, oh, you know, like them people ain't gonna get you nowhere. |
| 1:21.8 | I said, they ain't got no money. |
| 1:23.5 | And then he just said, whoa. That was actually one of the main reasons why I kept going. |
| 1:29.7 | Guys, welcome back to another episode of Great Company. |
| 1:34.6 | I cannot tell you how excited I am for this episode. |
| 1:39.9 | You don't need to be a boxing fan to be a huge admirer of this story today. It's Moses Atama. |
| 1:45.8 | He is the upcoming British superstar heavyweight boxer. He's currently 13 and 0, 13 wins, |
| 1:53.3 | zero losses. He's had 11 knockouts. This guy is a new breed of boxer. Frank Warren, his |
| 2:00.4 | manager, has come out and said he's going to be fighting hopefully |
| 2:03.4 | this year for a heavyweight championship. |
| 2:06.2 | So you know the likes of Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, anti-Joshua, those big names that have |
| 2:10.7 | come through heavyweight. |
| 2:12.1 | This is the new name. |
| 2:13.8 | He's British and he's phenomenal. |
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