
By midnight on Saturday in Leeds, Josh Warrington had started a boxing party that cost him a broken jaw, a damaged left hand and set loose close to 12,000 dancing in the streets.
Warrington had also regained his IBF featherweight title and left Spain’s Kiko Martinez smeared in blood from his cuts and in the arms of the referee, Marcus McDonnell, after 2:12 of round seven. It was a flawless display from Warrington in the fight of his life.