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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Steve Bunce

Leigh Wood, Josh Warrington, and the importance of genuine nastiness in boxing

Leigh Wood (left) and Josh Warrington during their first clash - (Getty)

There has to be a bit of genuine nastiness in any successful British boxing rivalry. Boxers have shared 45 championship rounds and not really disliked each other, and met in trilogies that lacked a lasting moment of hate.

Josh Warrington and Leigh Wood fight on Saturday in Nottingham, in a long-overdue rematch and a fight that other domestic rivalries should be measured against. Warrington and Wood is nasty; it is also a fight for survival at boxing’s elite level.

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