Garner reacts to winning WBC interim super-featherweight title<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “Both he and Ryan have similar backgrounds in how they turned their careers around after maybe not giving enough dedication to parts of their careers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And they are two lovely fellas. That would be an unbelievable fight.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Asked outright whether he thought Foster could vacate his super-featherweight title, Warren told the BBC: “I expect Ryan to fight for the world title or become world champion.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He has the ability to do that. We will see how it happens. It’s exciting times for Ryan, exciting times for Southampton and British boxing.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ticket sales for Southampton’s first major boxing event were around 13,000, with the Saints’ Spygate scandal and lack of Premier League promotion affecting the figure.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Warren is determined to bring another event to Southampton, and has held positive talks with Saints CEO Phil Parsons about the possibility of doing so.\n<\/p>\n
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Boxing promoter Frank Warren in conversation with Ryan Garner following his unanimous decision victory over Michael Magnesi at St Mary’s. (Image: Leigh Dawney\/Queensberry)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Southampton scene also boasts rising names Royston Barney-Smith and Taylor Bevan, signed to Matchroom Boxing, alongside new WBA international champ Lewie Edmondson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It has become alive down here. There are some great opportunities down here,” Warren continued when asked if Queensberry would be back.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That’s what we do at Queensberry, we are promoters. We build the audience, and that’s what has happened. Next time, it will be a bigger crowd.”\n<\/p>\n
\n On the bout between Garner and Magnesi, Warren added: “I thought the fight was unbelievable. There were two gladiators in there, and it takes two to make a fight like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They gave everything. As soon as that bell went, they were down on it, letting their shots go. For those first three rounds, they could have had them in a phone box.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In the third round, there was a moment when they didn’t move from that one position up against the ropes. They stood there, letting their shots go.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I didn’t expect it to go 12 rounds when they were fighting like that, at that pace. The commitment level [was amazing].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garner was crowned WBC interim super-featherweight champion at St Mary’s on Saturday evening, beating Michael Magnesi by unanimous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651206","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=651206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}