{"id":368616,"date":"2026-01-14T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:41:10","slug":"boxing-john-joe-carrigans-second-pro-fight-is-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368616\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: John Joe Carrigan&#8217;s second pro fight is postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The talented Cumbrian was set to fight Danny Costello in Manchester later this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But the super-welterweight contest has been shelved after an injury to heavyweight Moses Itauma, who was due to top the bill at the Magnificent 7 show on whose card Carrigan featured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    \ud83d\udea8 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc20\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc2d \ud835\udc14\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc1e<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Moses Itauma has sustained an injury in camp &amp; therefore the Magnificent 7 show has been re-scheduled for March 28th. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cllR8ta9in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cllR8ta9in<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Queensberry Promotions (@Queensberry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queensberry\/status\/2011000375256760610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2026<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  Promoters Queensberry announced that, with Itauma no longer able to fight Jermaine Franklin as planned on January 24, the entire show at Co-op Live has been put back to March 28, at the same venue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Queensberry said Itauma suffered the injury during his camp in preparation for the Franklin fight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It means 18-year-old Carrigan must wait to build on his impressive start to life in the professional game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Border City Amateur Boxing Club product made short work of Dawid Przybylski in his pro debut fight in Glasgow in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan, who now trains at the Tenacity gym in Hartlepool, won by first round stoppage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Todhills boxer, who won a host of international, national and regional belts during his amateur career, was then lined up to take on West Midlands boxer Costello.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The latter is returning to the pro scene after two years away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Carrigan has been tipped for big things in boxing, having been snapped up by Frank Warren&#8217;s Queensberry when turning pro last year. He is also managed by the legendary American, Shelly Finkel.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The talented Cumbrian was set to fight Danny Costello in Manchester later this month. But the super-welterweight contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-368616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368616","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=368616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}