Dillian Whyte has insisted he will continue his boxing career despite a devastating first-round knockout loss to Moses Itauma earlier this month. The 37-year-old Briton was stopped inside two minutes by the 20-year-old prospect in their all-British clash in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Whyte, who suffered his fourth professional defeat, took to Instagram on Monday to address speculation about his future. "This is not where my story ends," he wrote. "I may have lost this fight, but not the fire that built me. Thank you to everyone who's been standing by me through the highs and the lows."
The loss to Itauma further dented Whyte's hopes of becoming a world champion, following his stoppage defeat by Tyson Fury in his sole world-title challenge in 2022. Prior to that, Whyte had been knocked out by Anthony Joshua in 2015 and Alexander Povetkin in 2020, though he avenged the Povetkin loss with a knockout win in 2021.
Whyte had rebuilt with a narrow points win over Jermaine Franklin and stoppages of Christian Hammer and Ebenezer Tetteh before facing Itauma. Despite the setback, the "Bodysnatcher" remains determined to fight on, rejecting calls from some quarters to retire.
