{"id":803617,"date":"2026-10-15T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803617\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:48:09","slug":"dubois-vs-wardley-2-promoter-frank-warren-paints-heavyweight-unification-picture-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803617\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubois vs Wardley 2: Promoter Frank Warren paints heavyweight unification picture for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warren also confirmed British heavyweight Moses Itauma will return to the ring in January as he looks to rebuild his career and challenge for a world title in 2027.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old suffered his first professional defeat in August<\/a> when he was stopped in the ninth round by Croatia’s Hrgovic, who claimed the vacant IBF heavyweight title.<\/p>\n

Itauma had dominated the early rounds before tiring and being overwhelmed by his more experienced opponent.<\/p>\n

“He’s fighting in January. We’ll be announcing his fight in the next couple of weeks,” Warren said.<\/p>\n

“We had a constructive meeting a couple of weeks ago. We let the dust settle, talked about what happened against Hrgovic.”<\/p>\n

The Chatham fighter, who has won 14 of his 15 professional bouts, with 12 victories by knockout, had been fast-tracked towards a world-title shot after a string of destructive performances.<\/p>\n

Long touted as a future star of the division, Itauma now faces a rebuilding process following his first setback.<\/p>\n

“Moses comes back and has a fight and wants to be in the mix,” Warren added.<\/p>\n

“He’s only 21 and he wants 2027 to be the year he wins a world title.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren also confirmed British heavyweight Moses Itauma will return to the ring in January as he looks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803617","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\/803617","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=803617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}