That is good news for Moses Itauma, beaten by Filip Hrgovic in his first crack at heavyweight gold, and now insisting he will learn from his defeat and bounce back stronger than ever.

The next year will be especially crucial for the 21-year-old southpaw as he bids to get himself back in world title contention in the post-Oleksandr Usyk era.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Warren himself named three fighters who Itauma can look to as shining examples of much-touted British youngsters who had their wings clipped by more experienced foes before going on to become major stars.

We take a look at how that named trio put their adversity behind them to win world titles and become stars in their own right.

The Fall: South London’s power-punching Haye was 10-0 with 10 KOs and well on the road to superstardom when he came up against Carl "The Cat" Thompson at Wembley Arena on September 10, 2004. Like Hrgovic, 40-year-old Thompson was given little chance by the bookmakers, who expected 23-year-old Haye to add the veteran to his list of victims. But Thompson, one of Britain’s most underrated fighters, ripped up the script by wearing Haye down before taking him out in the fifth.

The Return: Haye returned exactly three months after his defeat, with a lay-up against Estonian journeyman Valeri Semiskur in a leisure center in Yorkshire. Haye took just 96 seconds to dispatch the visitor and get his career back on track. He registered two more stoppages in the first three months of 2005 and was European cruiserweight champion by the end of that year.

The Reward: Haye stayed at European level throughout 2006, with three straight defenses, including a big win against undefeated Italian Giacobbe Fragomeni at York Hall. Once he stepped up to world level, he was ready, unifying the cruiserweight division before winning the WBA heavyweight title by toppling history’s tallest champion, Nikolai Valuev in Germany on November 7, 2009, five years on from that defeat to Thompson.

The Fall: Olympic silver-medalist Khan had made a superb start to life as a pro, racing to 18-0 in his first three years after turning over. But Breidis Prescott sent 21-year-old Khan crashing back down to Earth, quite literally, when he dropped and stopped him in just 54 brutal seconds at Manchester’s M.E.N. Arena in September 2008.

The Return: Just like Haye, Khan returned exactly three months later and bounced back by stopping 22-5 Irishman Oisin Fagan in the second round of their London clash. That set him up for a glorious 2009, as he beat Marco Antonio Barrera in March, then won his first world title via a unanimous decision over Andriy Kotelnik back at the M.E.N just 10 months after his defeat to Prescott.

The Reward: Khan would go on to make four defenses of that belt, including a legendary war with Marcos Maidana in Vegas, before he unified by beating Zab Judah for the IBF strap in July 2011. Prescott would not be the only man to knock him out, as he suffered similarly crushing defeats to the likes of Danny Garcia and Canelo Alvarez. Even so, Khan (34-6, 21 KOs) has to be considered one of Britain’s most important fighters of the modern era.

The Fall: Like Haye, “Dynamite” Dubois was 23 when he suffered the first defeat of his career, when he was stopped by Joe Joyce in their British grudge match in November 2020. Dubois had won all but one of 15 fights by stoppage and was heavily tipped to take out Joyce and continue his steady march to the top. But Joyce, 35 at the time, dominated the clash behind his ramrod jab, shattering Dubois’ left eye socket and forcing him into a 10th-round KO.

The Return: The rebuild on Dubois was a tour de force from Warren. He needed a few months to allow his eye to heal but got back to business by crushing Bogdan Dinu in two in June 2021 and then Joe Cusumano inside three minutes just two months later. It meant his confidence was well and truly back by the time he faced 22-0 Trevor Bryan in Miami in June 2022. He won the first three rounds easily and then closed the show in the fourth to claim the secondary WBA title.

The Reward: At the time of writing, Dubois is a two-time heavyweight champion and the current holder of the WBO title. He beat ... guess who? Hrgovic, for the IBF interim title in June 2024 and was then elevated to full champion when Oleksandr Usyk vacated the belt. Dubois cemented that position by dismantling Anthony Joshua at Wembley just three months later. He lost that belt to Usyk last year, his second of two stoppages at the hands of the Ukrainian, but beat Fabio Wardley for the WBO prize in May.