Sergio Mora believes that Dillian Whyte should aim to fight Deontay Wilder next, and that he has edged Alexander Povetkin towards retirement.
Whyte reclaimed the WBC interim championship after months of coronavirus-enforced delays, when he knocked out Povetkin in Gibraltar at the weekend.
Whyte suggested after the win that he did not want another tough fight as his next bout, perhaps understandably as he finally wants a shot at a world heavyweight belt and does not want to risk losing his belt.
Speaking to Chris Mannix on DAZN’s JABS, Mora said Whyte grew into the fight to deliver a sound victory, but should be looking towards another big fight.
“It was billed as revenge and he did what he had to do. In the first round he was a little bit careless, both of them were swinging big bombs and missing haymakers,” he said.
“He gave Povetkin the chance to land something big but then he found his way in the second and third round.
"He did what he had to do and that’s win. Getting the knockout just made it extra spectacular. Now he puts himself to get another big fight, hopefully the winner of [Tyson] Fury and [Anthony] Joshua, but I think that the fight that makes sense - perfect sense - is Deontay Wilder .
“Wilder, whether he comes across the pond or Whyte crosses the Atlantic, that’s a fight for both of them to prove they deserve the winner of Joshua-Fury next.”
As for his beaten opponent, Mora said that Povetkin’s legs had gone and that between the two bouts, the Russian looked to have lost his ability to take shots, and may have fought his last fight.
“He looked shaky, he looked top heavy, he had no legs. I can tell you from experience he had no legs,” he said.
“He’s 41 years old, he’s going to be 42. The punches that were dropping were not clean shots. It’s the legs: when they go, we go. He looked vulnerable, he looked old.
“That’s what happens with champions. They look good one night, they grow old overnight.
“That was his last fight, in my opinion."