Moses Itauma continues to make the hardest game look remarkably easy.

On Saturday night, the 19 year old heavyweight made short work of his toughest test to date, dropping the usually solid Australian Demsey McKean twice and stopping him within two minutes of the opening round.

Although you would have been hard pressed to find anybody who expected McKean, 22-2 (14 KOs), to beat Itauma, most considered him good enough to provide the teenage prodigy with some invaluable rounds.

Itauma, 11-0 (9 KOs) wasn’t amongst that number.

“I kind of knew that it was going to go like that,” he told The Stomping Ground after the fight. “I've studied Dempsey to the T. Well, my team have studied Dempsey to the T and they gave me the instructions and I just went and boxed by the instructions, so I kind of knew that that was going to happen if I’m honest with you.”

It is less than two years since Itauma turned professional after an excellent amateur career and the early professional returns were impressive enough for knowledgable people to suggest that the southpaw could beat Mike Tyson’s record of becoming the youngest ever heavyweight champion.

Tyson was just 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old when he beat Trevor Berbick to win the WBC heavyweight title in 1986. Itauma turns 20 on December 28th which leaves him less than five months to accomplish the history making feat.

The situation of the heavyweight titles means that Itauma is likely to run out of time but whether he manages it or not, it is looking increasingly like that he will wear gold around his waist before too long.

“I don't want to sit here and say I am the best fighter in the world because, at the minute, I'm not,” he said.

“I haven't proved it. I haven't boxed the Joseph Parkers, the Dubois, the Joshuas, the Usyks. I haven't boxed them yet, so I can't say that.

“But I do genuinely, honestly believe that I'm the best. I just need to wait until the world sees it.”

Itauma’s manager, Francis Warren, had another suggestion “The winner of Dereck [Chisora] and Otto Wallin. Let’s do that,” he said.

Chisora and Wallin meet in Manchester on February 8th.