Dan Azeez was left fearing for his career when injury derailed his south London derby against old friend Joshua Buatsi last year.
Just days from the opening bell last October, the Lewisham fighter was forced to pull out of the biggest fight of his career with a back problem suffered in his final training session.
He and Croydon boy Buatsi come face-to-face in their rescheduled showdown this Saturday but a decade-long friendship became strained after their original date was shelved.
Tensions emerged when Buatsi appeared to question the legitimacy of Azeez’s injury after some malicious and quite simply disrespectful conspiracy theories were raised.
