‘My days are hard’: Whyte talks preparation for Itauma fight

Dillian Whyte goes head-to-head with Moses Itauma on Aug. 16.

As Dillian Whyte prepares to head into his August 16 fight against Moses Itauma as the considerable underdog, Whyte talks to DAZN about how his training camp has been going with trainer Buddy McGirt.

“Camp’s been good,” Whyte would say. “Obviously I had a couple of fights that fell through with injury so I just carried on training. That’s been frustrating at times because I was in great shape and I got injured.

“My days are hard. Now we’re in the sparring stages, like avoid getting punched up by these big guys in camp...I keep a very small team. I don’t have too much people around me, you know.”

McGirt would also provide some insight into training Whyte, and explains how he’s been trying to tame Whyte into becoming a more cerebral fighter than one who’s just willing to slug it out once he gets caught with a good shot.

“I said ‘I know what you want to do but we’re going to do it in a smart, controlled way,’” McGirt said of a Whyte sparring session. “I said if you go out and go wild I’m going to stop it and pull him out...you’re going to go to what you know best, and Dylan’s thing is war. It’s okay to go to war but you’ve got to attack smart, you can’t attack wildly, especially against a young man that’s fast and can punch.

“(Itauma’s) a youngster, he’s fast. So we got to get him into deep waters, that’s the key. We got to get him into deep waters where he hasn’t been.”

Check out the full segment in the video clip at the top.