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'I still wanted to fight!' - Dillian Whyte reveals extent of finger injury that pulled Joe Joyce fight
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Dillian Whyte has revealed the extent of the finger injury that forced him to withdraw from next month's all-British heavyweight bout with Joe Joyce after a gym accident.
It was confirmed that the 'Bodysnatcher' would be forced out of his return to the ring against the former Rio 2016 Olympian on Tuesday, in a blow for his long-term prospects.
Whyte has struggled for fights and fitness in recent years, and would have hoped that a victory over his fellow Briton could have returned him to the top-tier conversation.
But now he has revealed how he suffered the fight-ending problem, and admitted that he attempted to stave off the idea that he would have to pull out with a month to go.
"I was training as usual and there was a guy next to me in the gym and he dropped his weights and it rolled down," he told talkSPORT.
"As I put my weight down, I ended up catching his finger between his dumbbell and my dumbbell. I still wanted to fight so I didn't tell my team.
"But it cut right to the bone although I just thought I could get stitches and put it back in a glove again. It's cut down the first joint so it's hard for me to bend it.
"I can't clench my first properly. I'm seeing the specialist later this week just to see. I'm getting some feeling back, but I have been getting numbness in my finger.
"But my movement is coming back, it is cut to the bone so it could be nerve damage but we will see."
Whyte last fought in December against Ebenezer Tetteh, where he stopped his opponent in Gibraltar after a particularly low-wattage encounter.
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