{"id":275541,"date":"2025-11-10T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:12:14","slug":"moses-itauma-jermaine-franklin-tops-queensberrys-jan-24-magnificent-7-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275541\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma-Jermaine Franklin Tops Queensberry’s Jan. 24 Magnificent 7 Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma<\/a> will headline another Queensberry bill, when he faces Jermaine Franklin<\/a> in the main event of their latest Magnificent Seven show at Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena on January 24.
Franklin (24-2, 15 KOs) is well-known to British audiences, having gone the 12-round distance in spirited defeats against former Itauma opponent Dillian Whyte<\/a> and two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua<\/a> during a five-month stretch between November 2022 and April 2023.
Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs), the WBA’s No. 1-ranked contender, was originally slated to top the bill on December 13<\/a> alongside the evergreen fan favourite Derek Chisora<\/a> in separate bouts, before news broke of Kubrat Pulev opting to box Murat Gassiev \u2014 conflicting with the sanctioning body’s order<\/a> days before to negotiate terms with the 20-year-old.
Instead now rather than wait on the sidelines for the Pulev-Gassiev winner, can bank rounds against a durable opponent in Franklin, who ended a 16-month layoff in September with a narrow 10-round points win over Ivan Dychko<\/a> on the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford undercard.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the card, some tasty tussles have been announced to begin the new year including another crossroads clash at light heavyweight as Frank Warren marks 45 years as a licensed British boxing promoter with a big start to 2026. <\/p>\n

The Ring’s No. 10-rated contender, Willy Hutchinson<\/a> (19-2, 14 KOs), seeks to pick up where he left off against Mark Jeffers when facing Ezra Taylor<\/a> (12-0, 8 KOs), unwilling to wait after news of Lewis Edmondson’s hip injury<\/a> caused their British title fight fall through last month.
The pair were involved in an increasingly heated discussion ringside on November 1 as Joshua Buatsi’s promotional debut ended contentiously with a 10-round majority decision win over Zach Parker,<\/a> and eight days later they’ve been matched with one another.
British and Commonwealth featherweight champion Zak Miller<\/a> (17-1, 3 KOs) faces a stern test against Liam Davies<\/a> (17-1, 8 KOs) in the latter’s second appearance at 126 pounds, while another promotional debut beckons when Sheffield middleweight Shakiel Thompson<\/a> duels former British beltholder Brad Pauls<\/a>.
Another former Lonsdale champion in Nathan Heaney<\/a>, who had a two-fight series with Pauls last year, will bring his loyal Stoke supporters up north when facing Welsh southpaw Gerome Warburton (16-2-2, 2 KOs).<\/p>\n

English 130-pound champion Josh Holmes (17-0, 6 KOs) makes his first defence against the always game Alex Murphy (14-2) while Aqib Fiaz (14-1, 2 KOs) looks to build on his Murphy win at the expense of a wounded but dangerous proposition in Jordan Flynn (12-1-1, 2 KOs). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma will headline another Queensberry bill, when he faces Jermaine Franklin in the main event of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":{"0":"post-275541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-community","12":"tag-boxing-fights","13":"tag-boxing-history","14":"tag-boxing-interviews","15":"tag-boxing-magazine","16":"tag-boxing-photos","17":"tag-boxing-rankings","18":"tag-boxing-results","19":"tag-boxing-schedule","20":"tag-boxing-videos","21":"tag-boxing-news","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}