Moses Itauma demolishes Demsey McKean with another first-round ...

Moses Itauma dismantled Demsey McKean in Riyadh on Saturday night as he won in the first round with a brutal knockout.

Itauma is, for many, the next great hope for British heavyweight boxing. If Tyson Fury is the elder figure, Anthony Joshua is fading from view, and Daniel Dubois is the current king, then it is for 19-year-old Itauma to show the waiting audience what could come in the future.

Under the guidance of promoter Frank Warren, Itauma had not faced an opponent he was not expected to beat. 10 fights, 10 wins, eight knockouts.

Polish veteran Mariusz Wach lasted two rounds in July, and McKean was clearly his toughest test yet.

The Australian had been unbeaten until August last year, when he was stopped by Filip Hrgovic, and at 6'6" was a potentially dominant physical presence.

Itauma needed just a single round - less, in truth - as he unleashed a flurry of body shots before sending some left-hands over his opponent’s defence to leave McKean sprawled awkwardly after the first effort, and then finished it with an even more brutal effort with his second before the match-up was waved away.

For Itauma it was his seventh first-round knockout of his career, and he looks an ominous prospect.

As a teenager on the back of such a showing, he may now struggle to find a fighter willing to take him on given the daunting challenge he has so far given all-comers.

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