Warrington told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/a><\/p>\n“It’s a frustration of the sport. I’ve had to do everything in my power to get the fight on, if it meant me wearing pink shorts and walking to the ring with a daft hat on my head I’d have done it. I’d have fought him in his backyard.<\/p>\n
“I’m that desperate to put to bed what I think should have happened in the first fight.<\/p>\n
“I think Leigh has been a bit of a diva over the past few years but he wants to fight there. He wants to fight there [in Nottingham] and I’m fine with that.”<\/p>\n
Wood, who was the defending champion, won the initial bout after Michael Alexander deemed that Warrington could not continue after being knocked down at the end of the seventh round.<\/p>\n
The former IBF world champion said he felt like he was “hard done by” by the referee’s decision.<\/p>\n
“Leigh caught me with a good shot at the end of the round, he says it was well-timed I say lucky, and it buzzes me and I go down to the canvas,” Warrington added.<\/p>\n
“When I was down the bell rang for the end of the round and I got up and went to walk to my corner. I could hear him counting ‘six, seven, eight’ and when I turned around he was already waving his arms to say the fight was over.<\/p>\n
“I later found out I was up in every round on the judges’ scorecards so I feel hard done by and think I should have been given the benefit of the doubt.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Warrington has had to do “everything in his power” to secure a rematch against British featherweight rival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}