Dillian Whyte provided a gruesome description while explaining the agonising injury that he suffered, just weeks before his last fight against Moses Itauma. "It felt like someone had dropped a dumbbell on my foot," revealed Whyte when asked to put into words the pain caused by the fractured foot that he sustained in training last summer. "I was running and I felt it [my foot] and then I went to spar and I was sparring big, agile guys and someone was pressing me, I stepped back the wrong way and then it just fractured clean.
"It was terrible, but we're used to pulling off miracles. We're used to fighting injured. "I made the best of the situation and had a decent camp.
I felt good during fight week and really thought I would beat Moses." Whyte has entered the ring before with debilitating injuries. He famously fought bitter rival Anthony Joshua whilst being hampered by a badly damaged shoulder and other grim wounds have been overcome in a heavyweight career that led him to become two-time WBC interim world champion. But the Brixton man could not shrug off the effects of his injured foot and the bone fractured again while he was limbering up in the dressing room, only hours before he was due to face Itauma in Saudi Arabia last August.
"I started warming up, jumped a little bit of rope, and then reinjured the foot. Completely fractured it again," said Whyte. "We had to call the doctor who was with me to examine it.
He advised me not to fight and I said 'no'. There's no way I'm going to come all the way to Saudi and not fight last minute. "I was confident that I would still be able to drag Moses into the later rounds and stop him as [Filip] Hrgovic recently did." Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Whyte tried to conceal his damaged foot, which had been heavily strapped, but his lack of mobility was exposed by Itauma, who piled on a succession of punches before the bout was waved off in the opening round.
While Itauma celebrated his victory, Whyte remained silent about his significant injury and has been absent from the ring since that fight. "I didn't want to mention it, go into it, and take away from his win, because he done alright. I got clocked and he won the fight.
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