Floyd Schofield Sr. says his son\u2019s recent left-hand injury was a result of him having \u201cgrown man strength\u201d and \u201chits too hard\u201d. The left-hand sprain resulted in lightweight contender Schofield Jr. (19-0, 13 KOs) postponing his November 8th fight against Joseph \u2018Jojo\u2019 Diaz until February 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrown Man Strength\u201d Gone Wrong<\/p>\n
\u201cHis next fight is at the end of February or the beginning of March. And it should be for the world title. He\u2019s in line to fight Tank or Lucas Baldi,\u201d said Floyd Schofield Sr. to MillCity Boxing<\/a> about his son\u2019s next fight.<\/p>\n Schofield Sr. sounded mixed up during the interview. He started by saying his son\u2019s next fight in February will be for a world title at lightweight. Later, he talked about rescheduling his fight with Joseph \u2018JoJo\u2019 Diaz in 2026.<\/p>\n There\u2019s little chance that Gervonta Davis would agree to fight a dangerous puncher like Schofield Jr., because that\u2019s not been his style. If anything, he\u2019ll swerve him, vacate, or retire.<\/p>\n \u201cI just got to get back, make sure my hand is healed correctly, and just chill out,\u201d said Schofield Jr. about his left hand injury.<\/p>\n Fans Cry Wolf on Another Pullout<\/p>\n Boxing fans on social media doubt the legitimacy of Schofield\u2019s injury, viewing it as a case of him pulling out again because he didn\u2019t want to fight. This is the second fight in 2025 that Schofield has pulled out of on short notice.<\/p>\n For his scheduled title shot against WBC lightweight champion Shakur on February 22, 2025, Schofield pulled out four days before the contest on February 18, due to a mysterious illness. Fans think he got stage fright and chickened out. Now the left-hand injury.<\/p>\n \u201cHe sprained his wrist. He didn\u2019t fracture his hand,\u201d said Schofield Sr. about his son. \u201cWe rock in sparring. We don\u2019t go pitty-patting in sparring. It\u2019s war.\u201d<\/p>\n Floyd Sr. went on to say Schofield\u2019s wrist sprain is different from the hand injury that Shakur Stevenson has. He points out that Shakur broke his hand, and claims it\u2019ll never heal back right.<\/p>\n Since 2014, Olly Campbell has brought readers clear ringside perspective and a steady voice on boxing\u2019s biggest nights.<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb – An Analyst’s Perspective<\/a> \u00bb Fans Doubt Floyd Schofield Jr.\u2019s \u2018Injury\u2019 After Second 2025 Pullout \u2014 Father Insists It\u2019s From \u2018Grown Man Strength\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Last Updated on 10\/28\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floyd Schofield Sr. says his son\u2019s recent left-hand injury was a result of him having \u201cgrown man strength\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}