“We looked at that fight and we just thought, obviously, it was a title eliminator for the IBF, but then I would lose my rankings in the WBO, WBA and the WBC. Obviously, I’m highly ranked with all three of them,” Itauma said in an interview with iFL TV. “So my team was like, there’s no point of going in that route, dropping all these rankings – for the WBO, especially, the ones that I’ve been fighting for for two, two and a half years now.”
