British heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma needed just one minute and 59 seconds to stop veteran Dillian Whyte on Saturday night at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, recording his eighth first-round finish and extending his perfect professional record to 13-0, with 11 knockouts. The 20-year-old southpaw floored the former WBC interim champion with a right hook and forced referee Mikael Hook to wave off the bout after Whyte rose unsteadily to his feet. Whyte, 37, came in at his lightest weight in a decade but could not withstand Itauma’s early power. Promoter Frank Warren hailed Itauma’s “temperament, control and composure,” saying the performance positions the Slovak-born Briton for a world-title opportunity within the next 12 months. Itauma himself declared he is “ready for the big guys,” name-checking unified champion Oleksandr Usyk, while heavyweight title-holder Tyson Fury also acknowledged the win on social media. The emphatic victory, Itauma’s first as a pay-per-view headliner, reinforces his status as one of Britain’s most promising heavyweights and accelerates a potential collision course with the division’s elite.