Moses Itauma is set to return to the ring on March 28.\u00a0Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Moses Itauma has opened up on the bicep injury which forced the postponement of his heavyweight clash with American Jermaine Franklin Jr. earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs) was set to face Franklin (24-2, 15 KOs) on Jan. 24 in Manchester, before it was confirmed six days out from the fight that the Brit had been injured in training.<\/p>\n
The fight will now take place in March 28 at the same venue with the same undercard.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old explained he tried to carry on after injuring his bicep, before promoter Frank Warren stepped in and told him to get it checked properly.<\/p>\n
“I had a sparring session and that’s when I’d done it,” Itauma said. “I said to Frank, ‘I’ve done this, I’ve done that’ … And then he told me to go get a scan. I was like ‘no, I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright.’<\/p>\n
“I was trying my best to kind of recover a tear because I thought it was like a little niggle, as boxers we just carry on and push through it.”<\/p>\n
After a brief spell out, when he returned to the gym it became clear the injury was worse than first thought.<\/p>\n
“The next day I woke up and I was miles better but I wasn’t fully recovered,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Then a week or so later I thought I’ll be ready and I sparred, threw a punch and I just felt that something was not correct.<\/p>\n
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“So I told Frank that I’ve got the same problem and it’s not really going [away]. He said, ‘go get a scan, go get a scan, I won’t let you fight unless you get a scan.’<\/p>\n
“Then I get a scan and then obviously I had a grade two tear and it was me trying to push through it as if nothing’s happened.”\u2028<\/p>\n
Itauma said he could hardly even run for a time due to the injury, but is now back in full training and sparring ahead of next month’s return to the ring.<\/p>\n
The Brit is considered one of the most promising heavyweights on the planet, but hasn’t fought since August last year due to various injuries and being unable to find a suitable opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma is set to return to the ring on March 28.\u00a0Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty Images Moses Itauma…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435615","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\/435615","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=435615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}