FRANK WARREN is already facing a fight to talk Moses Itauma out of chasing an immediate rematch with Filip Hrgovic.

after boxing to the point of exhaustion against Hrgovic – who won in round nine to claim the IBF world heavyweight title.

Moses Itauma v Filip Hrgovic - IBF World Heavyweight TitleMoses Itauma wants to rematch Filip Hrgovic Credit: Reuters Moses Itauma v Filip Hrgovic - IBF World Heavyweight TitleHrgovic was crowned IBF champion Credit: Reuters

After being released from hospital, in the wake of his first-ever loss while insisting he will be back.

And Warren revealed the beaten Brit is already trying to get the rematch –

Warren, 74, said: “He’s saying to me, ‘Can we get the rematch on?’ which is a natural reaction

“But I told him, ‘You have got to switch off from boxing, go and chill out and spend some time with your family and come back, recharge your batteries and then we get to work again.’

“The landscape is what it is; you are a big part of it. You have shown you belong at that level’.

“Provided he learns the lessons from the fight, I think he can go on and do great things.

“I would like to see him in at least one, maybe two fights and see where we go before we go [back to that level].

“We’ve got to sit down with the whole team and discuss this. His manager is my son Francis, and all of us will get together to look at it.”

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Itauma, 21, floored Hrgovic, 34, in the second and won every round after that.

But he showed his inexperience – of just 14 bouts and 31 rounds completed before the title fight – by continuing to try and KO Hrgovic.

Eventually, he was unable to punch any more leaving referee Howard Foster with

Warren – a veteran of nearly 50 years of matchmaking – could see the tide turning in front of his very eyes.

He said: “I’ve been around the game long enough; I knew on the night what was going to happen.

Punch statistics comparing Ituma and Hrgovic, showing total punches thrown, landed, and percentage landed over nine rounds.Itauma totally dominated the fight

“I was sat next to his brother, and after the seventh he looked like he was puffing a bit and then in the eighth round he came out with a big round.

“I said, ‘He’s going to punch himself out’. I could see what was going to happen. He had his foot stuck down on overdrive, and that was it.

“I believe 98 per cent of the heavyweight fighters would have got stopped on Saturday by the punches he was throwing.

“And I said to him only recently, ‘There will come a time when you come against someone who can take a shot, and you’ll have to get to plan B’.

“That’s what happened on the night, and it’s happened to so many fighters over the years, especially big-punching fighters.

“But with him, he put so much into it that he didn’t have the strength to box.

“If he could have boxed the last few rounds, maybe he would have got through that because he was miles ahead on points.

“The only way Filip could have won was to knock him over, which is what he did at the end of the day.”