{"id":369199,"date":"2026-01-14T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:11:15","slug":"moses-itauma-injury-means-jermaine-franklin-bout-rescheduled-for-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369199\/","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.com\/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":367561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-369199","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\/369199","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=369199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}