{"id":406762,"date":"2026-01-13T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406762\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:00:08","slug":"moses-itauma-injury-means-jermaine-franklin-bout-rescheduled-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406762\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma injury means Jermaine Franklin bout rescheduled for March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moses Itauma&#8217;s fight against American Jermaine Franklin has been rescheduled for March after the British heavyweight picked up an injury while training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight, which was due to take place on 24 January at Manchester&#8217;s Co-Op Live Arena, will now take place at the same venue on 28 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Itauma further strengthened his credentials as one of the top contenders in the division when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cgqnzpv74vgo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating Dillian Whyte by knockout<\/a> in August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old is unbeaten in 13 fights while 32-year-old Franklin has 24 wins and two losses on his record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately Moses Itauma has sustained an injury in camp and therefore the Magnificent 7 show has been re-scheduled for 28 March,&#8221; promoters Queensberry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Itauma has won 11 of his 13 fights by knockout, with each of his last nine victories coming inside the distance, six of which have ended in round one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma&#8217;s fight against American Jermaine Franklin has been rescheduled for March after the British heavyweight picked up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-406762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}