Josh Taylor has said that a “pretty bad injury” means that his planned rematch with Jack Catterall will have to be rescheduled.
The pair fought almost a year ago, last February, as he defended all four belts at junior welterweight, winning on points in a result that many - including his challenger - disputed.
Taylor was adamant that he was a worthy winner but initially stated he would be moving up to welterweight to pursue new fights. However, he then confirmed he would take on his English rival in a rematch, and retains just the WBO and Ring belts after vacating the others.
The pair squared up at Saturday’s bout between Chris Eubank Jr. and Liam Smith in Manchester, and were separated before the dispute became physical, and speaking after the event to Sky Sports, Taylor gave an update on the situation.
"We'll fight when I'm ready to fight. I've got an injury, and that was it really," he said.
"Injury happened through the week there on Monday, but I've been trying to pull through it and see if I could carry on training, but I couldn't.
"I went to see the specialist, and it's a pretty bad injury, so I can't rush the recovery. I've just got to wait and see how long it takes to recover.
"It's hugely frustrating. I was fired up for this fight, ready to go. I was flying in the gym and everything was going well.
"Everything was on point and then I had a bad accident, and it's just one of these things that's out of my control.
"I can only try and recover as quickly as possible, get back to the gym and back into the training routine as quickly as possible.
"Hopefully soon. I can't really put a timeline on it now. I need to wait and see how the recovery goes and what the doctors and specialists say.
"It's not one that I'm going to be rushing because it's quite bad. So we'll have to wait and see, but hopefully as soon as possible, because I really want to get that fight and get on with my career.
"My career has been put on hold for a couple of years now, so I want to get back on the road."