{"id":428874,"date":"2026-02-16T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:56:08","slug":"leigh-wood-and-josh-warrington-ready-to-settle-their-two-and-a-half-year-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428874\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington ready to settle their two-and-a-half-year dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Neither fighter has deviated from the unflinching belief that they are the better man and both couldn\u2019t be more enthusiastic about proving it.\u2028Warrington, meanwhile, is ready to right what went wrong for him last time. Now 32-4-1 (8 KOs), the 35-year-old, who will bring a substantial following from Leeds, said:\u00a0\u201cThe game plan? Don\u2019t get caught! I like to watch my fights back if I win, but I don\u2019t like to watch them when I\u2019m getting chinned. I went diving in last time against Leigh and it cost me.\u00a0\u2028\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting ever since to jump back into this fight \u2013 and some two years later, it\u2019s finally arrived. I\u2019ve just got to concentrate on what I do well and stay switched on for every single second. I feel stronger than I ever have been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neither fighter has deviated from the unflinching belief that they are the better man and both couldn\u2019t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,88143,108772,6573,157216,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-josh-warrington","12":"tag-leigh-wood","13":"tag-matchroom-boxing","14":"tag-nottingham-and-leeds-boxing","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}