Moses Itauma now has an 86% knockout rate in his wins
Briton Moses Itauma reinforced his status as one of heavyweight boxing's brightest stars with a destructive fifth-round stoppage of Jermaine Franklin at Manchester's Co-op Live Arena.
The 21-year-old methodically broke down the American - who had been brought in as a genuine test - landing crisp combinations and heavy power punches.
Franklin climbed off the canvas in the third round, but was knocked out cold in the fifth by a clean uppercut.
"The first two rounds I thought it would go the distance. Then in the fifth round when I caught with him the uppercut, I thought 'did I really do that?'" Itauma said on BBC Radio 5 Live.
